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.
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!
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.
From now on you can include a connection quality indicator in your custom UI. This will give your users a quick feedback about their current audio / video quality.
In its simplest form, you can use it as a traffic-light display for good / ok / bad connection. We also provide some more details and value, like bitrate, jitter, packet loss, and round-trip time.
Any Eyeson video conference will stay open as long as at least one participant is present, and shutdown after a short waiting time when the last user has disconnected. In case your user did miss to disconnect or is gone for some other reason, we strongly suggest to use some sort of inactivity detection and auto-shutdown in your client applications. Using the default web UI we already got you covered: Any participant will be shown a dialog if there is no action detected for a long time.
