December 2014

WebRTC

• VP8 and H.264 mandated: see Codecs below

• Really experimental WebRTC VP9 support in Canary with --enable-webrtc-vp9-support
• EU WebRTC security report
• Analysis of IE and WebRTC
• Manipulate objects in VR using your phone via WebRTC
• Skype founder backs Wire
• Oracle 'Enterprise Communications Experience'
• Project Squared: Cisco 'business collaboration app' (Collaboration Cloud backend)
• How to enable Hello (WebRTC video chat) in Firefox 34 if you don't have it by default
• With WebRTC, the Skype's no longer the limit

MSE

• Spec now at w3c.github.io/media-source

EME
• Spec now at w3c.github.io/encrypted-media

Codecs, containers, compression
• IETF overwhelming consensus that browsers must implement both VP8 and H.264; non-browsers must implement both (or either, if that codec is royalty free):

• ietf.org/proceedings/91/slides/slides-91-rtcweb-7.pdf
• ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg13432.html 

• VP9 WebRTC – see WebRTC above
• Windows 10 Native Support for MKV and FLAC
• The Case for VP9

• iPhone 6 FaceTime now Supports H.265. Where is VP9 for WebRTC?
• VP8 hardware encode support substantially improved in Lollipop: 'Nexus 5, 6, and 9 support HW encode/decode in L via MediaCodec, with other devices coming soon as they update to L.'
• MQA 'studio-quality music streaming technology'

Web VTT
• Working Draft

Media 
• 'Five years ago, most of Facebook was text and if you fast forward five years, probably most of it is going to be video, just because it's getting easier to capture video of moments of your lives and share it.' – Mark Zuckerberg's first public Q&A (answer from about 37:46)
• Laser + radio backhaul 2Gbps up to 10km
• Mail Online TV?
• Yahoo! to acquired BrightRoll
• Why you can't get 4K Netflix and Amazon on a PC or Mac
• YouTube is the new TV
• YouTube launches monthly, ad-free music subscription service: could make $500m within one year
• YouTube For Android Gets Offline Playback… But In India, Indonesia And Philippines Only
• Ofcom Children’s Digital Day report: '11–15s squeeze nine and a half hours’ worth of media and communications activity into just over seven hours each day', teenagers watch TV half as much as adults
• The Final Countdown for NPAPI

And finally…
• Amazon Echo
• Amazon has no taste
• 1:1 aspect ratio Eizo monitor
• Full duplex radio for mobile phones
• From the vaults: TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It?
• Pesky robot cameras
• Larry Page tops Media Guardian 100
• The rise and rise of… vinyl (sales up 49% from last year)