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# Our 2nd Generation HTML5 Video Recorder
- URL: https://blog.addpipe.com/html-video-recorder-2-0/
- Published: 2017-09-26T16:55:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-21T08:25:57.000Z
- Author: Octavian
- Tags: Product Updates, #Import 2026-05-22 13:18

Since [releasing our 1st HTML desktop video recorder](https://blog.addpipe.com/new-html-5-webrtc-based-video-recording-client-now-beta/) in December 2016 we’ve never stopped improving it. The work culminated this summer with more than a dozen weeks of hard work & research that resulted in a new much improved HTML only desktop video recorder.

Last week [we’ve finally pushed](https://changelog.addpipe.com/) our 2nd generation HTML video recorder to our client delivery servers. It has been completely rewritten and does not rely on WebRTC anymore – except for `getUserMedia()` – but on a better streaming technology which makes it possible to record higher quality videos.

**This new HTML video recorder is a huge improvement over the previous one**:

- Higher video quality (immediately visible)
- Consistent video quality from start to finish
- Faster connections
- Higher connection rates (WebRTC had a [complex connection mechanism involving signalling, STUN & TURN servers](https://blog.addpipe.com/troubleshooting-webrtc-connection-issues/))
- Internet connection throughput does not affect video quality
- Less *moving* parts makes it easier to monitor and debug

This new desktop recorder also fixes the 2 issues that have plagued our WebRTC based video recorder and that have kept us from pulling it out of beta:

- some videos not having sound
- some videos ending up with 0kb in size

The [requirements](https://addpipe.com/docs/introduction/requirements/) have remained roughly the same with only Chrome’s minimum version being bumped up from 47 to 49.

The new recorder has been [running on our new homepage](https://addpipe.com/#product-usage) for some time now and the results have been impressive.

[Pipe accounts](https://addpipe.com/signin) which have activated the HTML5 video recorder beta in their [Environments](https://blog.addpipe.com/environments/) will automatically embed the new one and should already see the improvements in video quality in recent videos.

The comparison documentation, [requirements](https://addpipe.com/docs/introduction/requirements/) and website copy have all been thoroughly updated to reflect the new video recorder.