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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Media Device Management

Browser Permissions via navigator.permissions

  • Hardware access:
    • Webcam
    • Microphone
  • Optional permissions:
    • Geolocation
    • Notifications
    • Clipboard (read/write)
  • Querying permissions and checking status
  • Limitations and browser compatibility considerations

Accessing Media Devices with navigator.mediaDevices

  • Enumerating available devices
  • Managing dynamic device changes

Cross-Browser Compatibility

  • API utilization:
    • navigator.permissions.query()
    • navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices()
    • getUserMedia()
  • Implementing fallback strategies for Safari

Managing Media Devices

  • Initializing devices: getUserMedia(constraints)
  • Configuring media device constraints
  • Controlling the start and stop of media streams
  • Handling dynamic device changes

Recording with MediaRecorder

  • Managing stream start/stop and recording sessions
  • Downloading .webm files
  • Generating real-time waveform previews

Optional Extensions:

  • Saving audio in .wav format using ScriptProcessorNode
  • Visualizing audio FFT spectra
  • Displaying volume levels in decibels
  • Implementing voice recognition with webkitSpeechRecognition

Peer Connections

Signaling Servers

  • Bidirectional channel options:
    • WebSocket
    • Socket.io
    • SignalR
  • Structuring signaling messages
  • Building a simplified WebRTC client
  • Executing the complete signaling flow

Video Chat using WebRTC

  • System architecture: Node.js + ws
  • WebRTC client implementation: RTCPeerConnection
  • Conducting local end-to-end testing

Optional Enhancements:

  • Handling call termination (closing connections, stopping media)
  • Supporting group calls (multi-user rooms)
  • Implementing simple token-based authentication

Screen Sharing

  • Utilizing getDisplayMedia()
  • Architectural options and considerations

Session Description Protocol (SDP)

  • Overview and component contents
  • Parsing and interpreting SDP data
  • Codec management:
    • Audio & Video formats
    • Negotiation and control mechanisms
    • Implementing fallback strategies

WebRTC Statistics via getStats()

  • Categorizing types of statistics
  • Methods for interpreting statistical data
  • Generating live bitrate/jitter charts
  • Strategies for adaptive quality management

All topics include

  • Practical, hands-on use cases

Requirements

This course is tailored for frontend and full-stack developers, technical architects, and engineers focused on building browser-based real-time communication features such as video chat, screen sharing, or audio streaming. Participants should possess a solid working knowledge of JavaScript and web technologies, with optional experience in Node.js and WebSocket-based communication.

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