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• WebRTC books – a brief review

  1er janvier 2014, par silvia

  I just finished reading Rob Manson’s awesome book “Getting Started with WebRTC” and I can highly recommend it for any Web developer who is interested in WebRTC.

  Rob explains very clearly how to create your first video, audio or data peer-connection using WebRTC in current Google Chrome or Firefox (I think it also now applies to Opera, though that wasn’t the case when his book was published). He makes available example code, so you can replicate it in your own Web application easily, including the setup of a signalling server. He also points out that you need a ICE (STUN/TURN) server to punch through firewalls and gives recommendations for what software is available, but stops short of explaining how to set them up.

  Rob’s focus is very much on the features required in a typical Web application :

  • video calls
  • audio calls
  • text chats
  • file sharing

  In fact, he provides the most in-depth demo of how to set up a good file sharing interface I have come across.

  Rob then also extends his introduction to WebRTC to two key application areas : education and team communication. His recommendations are spot on and required reading for anyone developing applications in these spaces.

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  Before Rob’s book, I have also read Alan Johnson and Dan Burnett’s “WebRTC” book on APIs and RTCWEB protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web.

  Alan and Dan’s book was written more than a year ago and explains that state of standardisation at that time. It’s probably a little out-dated now, but it still gives you good foundations on why some decisions were made the way they are and what are contentious issues (some of which still remain). If you really want to understand what happens behind the scenes when you call certain functions in the WebRTC APIs of browsers, then this is for you.

  Alan and Dan’s book explains in more details than Rob’s book how IP addresses of communication partners are found, how firewall holepunching works, how sessions get negotiated, and how the standards process works. It’s probably less useful to a Web developer who just wants to implement video call functionality into their Web application, though if something goes wrong you may find yourself digging into the details of SDP, SRTP, DTLS, and other cryptic abbreviations of protocols that all need to work together to get a WebRTC call working.

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  Overall, both books are worthwhile and cover different aspects of WebRTC that you will stumble across if you are directly dealing with WebRTC code.

• AWS Lambda making video thumbnails

  5 février 2017, par Jesus

  I want make thumbnails from videos uploaded to S3, I know how to make it with Node.js and ffmpeg.

  According to this forum post I can add libraries :

  ImageMagick is the only external library that is currently provided by
  default, but you can include any additional dependencies in the zip
  file you provide when you create a Lambda function. Note that if this
  is a native library or executable, you will need to ensure that it
  runs on Amazon Linux.

  But how can I put static ffmpeg binary on aws lambda ?

  And how can I call from Node.js this static binary (ffmpeg) with AWS Lambda ?

  I’m newbie with amazon AWS and Linux

  Can anyone help me ?

• Unknown directive "ffmpeg"

  5 février 2015, par AndroidBeginner

  I’m setting up Amazon AWS s2 Linux(non-AMI) and building up nginx and rtmp from scratch. I follow exactly tutorials at here. When I’m editing nginx.conf, adding ffmpeg and restart my nginx. Unknown directive "ffmpeg" occurs.

  Nginx.conf

  rtmp {
  
      server {
  
              listen 1935;
  
              chunk_size 4096;
  
              notify_method get;
  
  
  
              application live {
  
                      live on;
  
                      ffmpeg  -re -i /var/video/test.mp4 -c copy -f flv rtmp://locahost/live;
  
              }
  
      }

  }

  Way I start nginx :

  sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

  Way I stop :

  sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop

  From what I knew, I need to recompile the nginx ? Because I’m using "sudo apt-get install nginx" when I start-up my VPS.