Inserting a custom media stream into a video meeting, can be difficult. Let's think of showing a video, live data or a stream from a security camera, dronefeed or bodycam.

With Eyeson API and eyeson-js you only need a few lines of code to stream any media directly into a meeting.

Sending the screen capture is usualy only possible when displayed in the presentation view. This means, that only the presentation can be seen, but not the other participants.

With Screen Cam you can share your screen capture stream in a simple way instead of the camera stream. This way you can share your desktop, your browser or a browser tab (depending on the browser the client is using) as part of a meeting.

One advantage of the Eyeson single stream is that you can change the video podium layout without the need for client side updates. With latest release of the Eyeson API we extended this feature and added support of voice detect activation for the podium positions, lets have a closer look.

Finally! Safari and SFU became good fellows.

Eyeson is based on this great approach of [Single-Stream-Technology][single-stream]. All participants are basically merged into one audio/video stream that opens a great window of advantages. This technique is called MCU ("Multipoint Control Unit").

Some time ago, Eyeson introduced a new mode called SFU ("Selective Forwarding Unit") to directly send your audio/video stream to your video call participant and vice versa. This mode is only activated when 2 people have a video call. As soon as a 3rd participant joins, Eyeson switches from SFU to MCU mode in order to maintain quality improvements.

By following best practices to create a state-of-the-art website you may only be a few steps away from providing your HTML content as a progressive web app (PWA). PWA's come with many advantages and features we all love from using mobile applications. This blog post takes a look back on the PWA we've built at Eyeson and how our users appreciate this lite version for mobiles and desktop. We are happy to share our experience and feedback we've received as well as some insights on further improvements.

In this post we'll share how we used [TensorFlow's object detection API] to build a custom image annotation service for Eyeson. Below you can seen an example where Philipp is making the "thinking" 🤔 pose during a meeting which automatically triggers a GIF reaction.

WebRTC provides a modern approach to enable real time communication from all major browser without the need of any plugins or extensions. Using WebRTC and the [Eyeson JavaScript library] you can build your own web interface without the need of managing connections or hardware devices. It also provides a powerful API to handle recordings, screen sharing, broadcasts, media into video injection, or group chats. This article provides an introduction on how to setup your own web based video client application and describes ways to enhance any video and audio call with additional features.