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.
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.
With no doubt JavaScript has become an elementary driving force for the Internet resulting in incredibly fast development and great success for the web. A lot of new and interesting JavaScript WebAPIs have become available and many of them are supported by major browsers. In this blog post we'll explore the Web Speech API to be used for speech recognition.
