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18th April 2019 - Link Blog

How Zoom’s web client avoids using WebRTC (via) It turns out video conferencing app Zoom uses their own WebAssembly compiled video and audio codecs and transmits H264 over WebSockets.

Posted 18th April 2019 at 6:20 pm

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