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BeingShashi
BeingShashi

Reputation: 41

How Does Google Hangout works in Safari if WebRTC does not work in safari

i am creating small application using webRTC and Nodejs. After many R&D i found that webRTC seems to Work only in Chrome and Firefox and may be in opera higher versions. and also webRTC is only technology which enables media using browser. if is it so then what technology hangout is using , which also works well in safari?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2315

Answers (2)

user1122069
user1122069

Reputation: 1817

Google Hangouts uses Vidyo. Vidyo has a proprietary plugin which they likely re-brand for Google. I know because I had about a 1-2 hour call with Vidyo in May and they mentioned Google Hangouts among their customers.

http://info.vidyo.com/VidyoH2O-for-Google-Hangouts-ga.html

Vidyo has reasonably high priced servers which they offer for medical applications, but we needed their API which we found out was priced at $100,000+.

The conclusion: stay with WebRTC and restrict your user's browser. Safari is expected by some to offer support next year and there are signs that they are porting code from Google Chrome. http://bloggeek.me/webrtc-apple-or-microsoft/

Limited IE support is offered by various plugins if you have the time and/or money for that. ex. OpenTok

Upvotes: 1

Rahul_Dabhi
Rahul_Dabhi

Reputation: 730

WebRTC is already out there. Companies are using it for point-to-point and multipoint voice and video.

Google Hangout it doesn't use WebRTC, Google's VP8 codec, or even the standard H.264 codec. It uses an H.264/SVC (Scalable Video Coding) variant of it.

Upvotes: 1

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