The designers of ORTC needed to explain how it would work, said Aboba, “but we didn’t have a problem convincing people it should be adopted.”Įven so, WebRTC is some way from being a mature technology. Unlike other standards such as Pointer Events that Microsoft has backed, that hasn’t been a matter of Microsoft convincing Google to change its mind. Lync for Web already uses a plugin to do real time communications in the browser “The standards are higher than in some technologies when your video is jumpy it’s very obvious to everyone.” “It’s just really hard stuff to get right,” said Michael Champion of Microsoft Open Technologies, the Microsoft subsidiary that builds prototypes of open technologies Microsoft is interested in. That’s partly because real-time communications are intrinsically difficult. Until other browsers have all the necessary WebRTC technologies, Skype, Hangouts and other real-time communication systems will need plugins “There may be some progress happening on getting H.264 implemented in multiple browsers, which would be helpful.”Īlthough it may seem as if WebRTC has been around for a while, even Google Hangouts didn’t switch to using WebRTC instead of a plugin until July this year-and the WebRTC 1.0 standard isn’t finished yet. He’s encouraged by discussions at a recent meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force. IE recently announced it will support H.264, as well as ORTC which by design supports simulcast and scalable video codecs, but that’s ,” he said. Firefox supports H.264 but doesn’t support simulcast or scalable video codecs or even multi-stream video. ![]() ![]() Chrome has simulcast and scalable video codecs and even multi-stream video, but it doesn’t have H.264. “No browser today supports a combination of H.264, simulcast and scalable video codecs. ![]() But they’re not in any browsers yet, so Skype can’t just use them.
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