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Once you get getUserMedia() working with audio and video constraints you immediately start hitting problems like: 1. user has no webcam, just a microphone 2. user has (accidentally) denied access to the webcam

WebRTC is constantly evolving and with it, it’s most known function getUserMedia(). With it you can get access to the device’s webcams and microphones and request a video stream, an audio

The No.1 feature request we got this year is the ability to record audio instead of video so we set out to deliver just that, hopefully by the end of the year.

When it comes to storing your (newly recorded) videos Amazon’s S3 is the obvious choice and it’s a great choice. But Cloudinary’s video platform is a lot more powerful when

With iOS 11, Apple added an option to compress both photos and videos with a new, more efficient encoding called HEVC or High Efficiency Video Codec. It also introduced the HEIF file format

We’ve come a long way since Flash was the de facto plugin for reliably playing videos across browsers. Today it’s as easy as adding 3 lines of HTML code: <video

This post will look back at our decision to use WebRTC over Media Recorder API for recording video from a browser. Read on for the technical details. By Q4 2016 Safari was the

Failed WebRTC connections can be caused by restrictive networks behind symmetric NATs, port blocks and even protocol blocks at the application & transport layers. We will delve in the intricate process of establishing

macOS Sierra was launched yesterday, and with it came a new version of Safari, Safari 10. Along with new features like Apple Pay, Safari 10 in Sierra introduces changes in the way it

In light of recent announcements from both Safari and Chrome that they’ll stop advertising Flash Player’s presence I’ve decided to see how ready the Internet is to move past Flash’

iOS 7.1 and later supports video recording in Safari through HTML Media Capture. HTML Media Capture works by extending the <input type="file"> and adding new values for

The Media Recorder API is the new HTML5 API for recording video in the browser. With Firefox supporting it for at least 2 years and Chrome having implemented it at the beginning of

April 2016 update: added info about Chrome 49 October 2016 update: added H.264 support for Chrome 52 For many years recording webcam video on the web meant using Adobe’s Flash plugin.

Back in December 2014 several Nokia Lumia devices got the ability to record 4k video with the Denim update – the one that also brought Cortana. While true 4K means 4096 x 2160 pixels,

iOS 9 is scheduled to be released this autumn and it brings many changes, but today we’re going to look at one of the lesser known ones: the change to the HTML

Videos recorded using mobile devices contain a lot of metadata. One piece of such data is the rotation metadata. This data is used by browsers such as Chrome and Safari and by video