On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8

I like WebRTC but it&#x27;s a complicated mess of protocols...<p>I&#x27;m currently trying to implement a WebRTC peer client in pure Erlang. One of the most difficult things I&#x27;ve done because WebRTC relies on several hundred pages of RFCs.

This isn&#x27;t as useful if webviews in iOS don&#x27;t have the same apis enabled.<p>It is very annoying that other browsers on iOS probably wont have access to these features and updates.

&gt; The VP8 video codec is widely used in existing WebRTC solutions. It is now supported as a WebRTC-only video codec in Safari 12.1 on both iOS and macOS betas.<p>For Steve&#x27;s sake! Why not add VP8 and OPUS system-wide already when they already even are built in different parts of the system?

All I know about WebRTC is Chrome preventing sleep on my systems with &quot;WebRTC has active peer connections&quot;. Made me ditch Chrome before it was fashionable to de-google.<p>So the only new feature i want from this WebRTC thingy is... an OFF button.

I know it&#x27;ll probably never happen, but I hope this somehow leads to Apple supporting .webm in Safari.

&gt; Safari also comes with additional improvements, including better support of capture device selection, experimental support of the screen capture API, and deprecation of the WebRTC legacy API.<p>Looking very much forward to this. Currently my plugin-free in-browser screen-sharing tool [0] only works in FF and Chrome. The real question is will mobile browsers offer it. In general though, I am impressed with how well screen capturing over WebRTC works and so far haven&#x27;t seen that many people needing a TURN server.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;myscreen.live" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cretz&#x2F;myscreen.live</a>

As someone who harassed you about VP8 support in the past [0], this is really great news. Thank you for all of your hard work. I am also really happy to see the transition to Unified Plan.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14510045" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14510045</a>

Under what situation is H.264 not available in WebRTC and require the use of VP8?

VP8 and VP9 hardware decoder acceleration is common on new products nowadays?! Or is this only the case on non Apple Smartphones?<p>btw: Looking forward to AV1 HW decoder accelerated CPUs.

excellent news. the webkit team are really improving their webrtc offering.<p>i feel the next great leap for webrtc is wasm + webrtc:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.co.uk&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;bloggeek.me&#x2F;webassembly-in-webrtc&#x2F;amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.co.uk&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;bloggeek.me&#x2F;webassembly-in-we...</a>

Is there a way to do WebRTC without revealing your IP to some signaling server?

When will Safari support Opus audio codec in Ogg container?