Comments on: Tokbox embraces WebRTC to give developers access to Flash-free video chat http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/tokbox-opentok-webrtc/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:33:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tsahi Levent-Levi http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/tokbox-opentok-webrtc/#comment-878118 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:54:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550545#comment-878118 Janko,

WebRTC is the way to go in the future video calling scene for browsers.
Today, companies need to invest their time and effort in Flash for such services (as TokBox and others have done), but within a year or two they will need to shift to WebRTC.

TokBox has an issue here that I am not sure how they solve. WebRTC uses VP8 while Flash uses H.264. This means they need to transcode the video for all sessions that have participants with both technologies. If this is the case, then this is costing them a small fortune on the server side.

]]> By: Rick Ed http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/tokbox-opentok-webrtc/#comment-877612 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:14:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550545#comment-877612 This “lets kill flash” union of bozos is really getting old, plus, how is it good to kill flash video by replacing it with something closed and locked in. Better go with webRTC.io than this me-too-closed API.

]]> By: fersho311 http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/tokbox-opentok-webrtc/#comment-877471 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:26:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550545#comment-877471 I love WebRTC

]]> By: Naga Harish Movva http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/tokbox-opentok-webrtc/#comment-877416 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:30:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550545#comment-877416 Superb!

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