Developers are free to create and apply their own custom layout maps whenever they need it! You need a special layout for your app? Just go ahead and create it!

The existing layout endpoint is extended with the new parameter map. The map is a JSON stringified list of box-definition-lists with x, y, width, height, and objectFit definitions for each box.

Here's an example map that places 2 boxes (640x360px) above eachother in the center of Eyeson One View's stream.

[
    [320, 0, 640, 360, "auto"],
    [320, 360, 640, 360, "auto"]
]

This change affects Custom UIs using Eyeson Javascript or one of the mobile SDKs.

When a new snapshot is created, the update event will only include a list with the latest snapshots instead of all existing snapshots of the current meeting.

Furthermore, there will be 2 new API endpoints for retrieving the most recent snapshot information.

Some key advantages of Eyesons MCU+ are that all participants see the same and the video stream can contain additional visuals and data. That means, you can choose one of the provided layouts and show images in the background and foreground layers.

We provide the new option background_color to let you customize the meeting video background color to your needs.

The option is only available on the meeting start request, see API room reference. It can not be changed during the meeting.

The following example shows how to use the new option with curl.

$ curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d "user[name]=John Doe" \
  -d "options[background_color]=#121212" \
  https://api.eyeson.team/rooms

Eyeson video meetings are based on the MCU+ Single-Stream Technology that provides many advantages like "everyone sees the same at the same time", it lets you create virtual rooms with its layout and layer features and much more.

But this also means, that you see yourself like all other participants see you. And unfortunately, this is not what you are used to. In other meeting tools your local video is usually shown instantly and mirrored based on the following trick:

There's a new feature that you can use on your custom UI with eyeson-js since v1.8.6.

Picture-in-picture camera is a nice addition to screenshare presentation as it includes the presenter's camera in the screenshare.

What is this about?​

In version 109, Chrome has rolled out a new media-picker where the order of display surfaces has changed. It has changed from screens/windows/tabs to tabs/windows/screens. Furthermore the pre-selection has changed too - from screens to tabs. Lucky for us, since version 107 of Chrome and Chromium based browsers, like Edge and Opera, there's an option that gives you back the control.

This article is showing how it can be controlled in your custom UI with eyeson-js since v1.8.5.

We're introducing Eyeson video meetings in 16:9 HD video format!

How to start​

The default aspect-ratio is still 4:3. In order to activate widescreen mode (aspect-ratio 16:9), you have to start a meeting via API and set the widescreen option to true.

For example using curl:

curl -X POST \
-H "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d "user[name]=John Doe" \
-d "options[widescreen]=true" \
https://api.eyeson.team/rooms

Integrating streams from drones or body-cams into video meetings is a nice-to-have. Since lots of devices of this kind provide their stream via RTMP bridging RTMP to webrtc is the task to solve.

With ghost we provide a go-based webrtc client which connects to an Eyeson meeting as a client and allows to stream in and out of that meeting. This client can be easily combined with a go RTMP server to achieve this.

A much loved feature in video meetings is to blur or replace your background. This feature Virtual Background is part of the Eyeson UI, the options are "blur" and "strong blur", backgrounds provided by Eyeson, or a custom image via API provided by you.