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Beyond Meetings: When Your Video Call Needs a Supervisor, an Auditor, and a Moderator
Not every video call is a meeting. When supervisors need to monitor sessions, auditors need access without being seen, and existing CRM or telephony workflows need to stay intact, the real problem isn't finding the right feature; it's that standard conferencing tools were never built for requirements like these at all.
OpenVidu 2.29.0: simulcast and finer video-quality controls
OpenVidu 2.29.0 adds a simulcast directive for Enterprise Edition deployments on Mediasoup, new per-stream resolution and frame-rate directives, and a fix that evicts "ghost" participants left behind by a dropped connection.
Is QUIC the Transport Layer Real-Time Apps Have Been Waiting For?
TCP is reliable but rigid, UDP is flexible but bare, and WebRTC bridges the gap at the cost of real complexity. A look at why real-time applications keep straining against the traditional transport stack, and why QUIC — built on UDP, with encryption, multiplexing, and fast handshakes built in — might be the transport layer real-time apps have been missing.
OpenVidu 2.25.0: AWS and Vosk support for Speech to Text
OpenVidu 2.25.0 adds AWS Transcribe and Vosk as Speech to Text engines, a new OPENVIDU_PRO_DOCKER_REGISTRIES setting for private Media Node registries, and a recordingActivity fix.
OpenVidu 2.23.0: what's new
OpenVidu 2.23.0 brings a refactored documentation site, improvements to OpenVidu Call, ready-to-use application-server samples in several languages, and early work on real-time subtitles.
Extending OpenVidu sessions with traditional phone calls
How a VoIP provider, a custom gateway, and a media server let OpenVidu sessions make and receive traditional phone calls.