New Video Codecs Like VP9
I’d love higher quality videos at lower file sizes. Who wouldn’t?
But the answer isn’t really that easy. We have hardware that needs to play the newer codecs and that is the issue for many people.
Video Conferencing and Screen Sharing
- https://tox.chat/ – Secured connections using 50+ character IDs which are manually shared. Thick clients exist for all the popular platforms. Beta level today. I´ve never used it.
- https://talky.io/ – Javascript dependent on WebRTC (Firefox, Chromium and Chome) that runs in a browser. No real security except using an odd room name so others don’t accidentally join. To join, both a webcam and microphone seem to be mandatory, but can be disabled (mute buttons for each) after joining, before anyone notices. Just make up an odd room name, share it, that´s it. https://talky.io/JDPFU4562dgr – for example. Have everyone go there to meet (limit 15).
