Audio only recording is the feature request we constantly received since launching the Pipe recording platform. Recently we’ve been hard at work adding the feature and as of today it’s available to all Pipe clients...
Common getUserMedia() Errors
Once you get getUserMedia() working with audio and video constraints you immediately start hitting problems like: user has no webcam, just a microphone user has (accidentally) denied access to the webcam user plugs in the...
getUserMedia() Video Constraints
WebRTC is constantly evolving and with it, it’s most known function getUserMedia(). With it you can get access to the device’s webcams and microphones and request a video stream, an audio stream or both....
Supported Audio Constraints in getUserMedia()
The No.1 feature request we got this year is the ability to record audio instead of video so we set out to deliver just that, hopefully by the end of the year. We started by...
Converting WebM to MP4 Using FFmpeg
The WebM Project has been slowly getting more support from the browser community with Edge 14 adding support in the Anniversary edition of Windows 10. At the same time more .webm files are created...
Smarter Video Hosting & Delivery With Cloudinary
When it comes to storing your (newly recorded) videos Amazon’s S3 is the obvious choice and it’s a great choice. But Cloudinary’s video platform is a lot more powerful when it comes to delivering...
Our 2nd Generation HTML5 Video Recorder
Since releasing our 1st HTML desktop video recorder in December 2016 we’ve never stopped improving it. The work culminated this summer with more than a dozen weeks of hard work & research that resulted in...
HEIF and HEVC in iOS 11: Quick Overview
With iOS 11, Apple added an option to compress both photos and videos with a new, more efficient encoding called HEVC or High Efficiency Video Codec. It also introduced the HEIF file format and...
Using The HTML < video > Element To Play Videos In Your Website
We’ve come a long way since Flash was the de facto plugin for reliably playing videos across browsers. Today it’s as easy as adding 3 lines of HTML code: The <video> element is now the standard...
Chrome 60: Microphone and Camera Access No Longer Works On Insecure Origins
Microphone and camera access is no longer permitted on insecure origins starting with Chrome 60. A Bit of History Initially reported as a potential bug by users that were using the development channel of Chrome...
