After seven years of running, hot speculation and loss, the 1.0 version will be finalized at any time and supported by iOS terminal. WebRTC has the ability to break through the mainstream ecosystem and terminal. 2018 will also be the best time for WebRTC to land. Produced by the LiveVideoStack audio and video technology community, WebRTCon 2018 will be held in Shanghai in May, which is a summary of the practice and application of WebRTC technology in the past years.



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In 2010, Google acquired On2, the developer of the VPx codec, and GIPS, which continues to provide a royalty free, open source video codec for WebRTC, and AV1 will be included in WebRTC’s support list in the future. The latter is the owner of WebRTC technology, which Google officially open-source in 2011 after acquiring both companies. This means that developers can implement the ability to make audio and video calls with JavaScript and HTML tags, all of which are open source and free. The emergence of WebRTC has greatly reduced the difficulty of developing multimedia services on the Internet.

In 2017, with the finalization of version 1.0 of WebRTC and the support of Apple iOS, WebRTC has opened up the mainstream browser and client ecosystem. 2018 will be a year of commercial eruption of WebRTC.

Take a pure WebRTC tour

Produced by LiveVideoStack, WebRTCon 2018 will be held in Shanghai on May 19-20. What are the interesting and useful topics at the conference?

First up are two guests from Google, Niklas Blum and Zoe Liu. The former is WebRTC’s product manager, who is responsible for working with the r&d team to chart WebRTC’s evolution. The latter was an engineer on the On2 team who worked on VPx until it was acquired by Google and is now focused on finalizing AV1. Niklas and Zoe will give an update on WebRTC in terms of products and Codec.

Meng Zhang is one of the core engineers of Facebook WhatsApp, which began exploring WebRTC in 2012. Meng Zhang’s issues are still being discussed. In addition, Netflix and Zoom instructors are still confirming, expecting good results.

In terms of domestic experts, TutorABC is one of the heavy users of WebRTC. We will invite the head of big front end and Jun and the architect of back end Qian Shuren to introduce the practice of front end and back end MCU respectively.

WebRTC has been widely used in Alibaba. Yang Fan, senior front-end engineer of Taobao, and Chen Xiao, senior technical expert of Alibaba, will introduce WebRTC’s practice in Alibaba group from the perspective of front-end and back-end respectively, including Taobao live broadcasting, Qianniu Call, Dingxiao group live broadcasting, Taobao education, etc.

Iqiyi researchers Feng Wei, Wang Shiliu and Long Xiang will introduce iqiyi’s application of WebRTC and smart speaker, the combination of WebRTC and AI technology, and how to set up a complete communication quality monitoring and guarantee system.

On Tencent’s side, Zhang Ke, technical director of WebRTC in audio and video Lab, will introduce systematic methods to improve QoS of multimedia services through data and algorithms.

Intel is an important ecological partner of WebRTC and will be shared by two experts at WebRTCon 2018. Chiu Jianlin, Intel real-time communication client engineer, and Zhang Yanbin, Intel CS for WebRTC client test architecture director, will introduce hardware codec optimization on H.264/265 and WebRTC automatic monitoring system respectively.

In addition, Wang Lifei, senior audio and video architect of Suning Cultural Innovation (former PPTV), Xi Lei, r&d engineer of Dada English, Wang Ronggang, professor of Peking University, Zhang Jun, director of PRODUCT R&D department of Ketianyun, And Wu Weiqi, audio technology expert of Touch Bao Technology will also have wonderful sharing.

Finally, we will hold at least one WebRTC training on the day before the official opening of WebRTCon 2018. We have confirmed to invite Liu Lianxiang, founder and CTO of dotEngine Voice and video calling Cloud, to do “WebRTC Basic Training: From Zero to Build Multi-person video conferencing”.

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