Re: Recap from WebRTC World

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:05 PM, tim panton <thp@westhawk.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 24 Jul 2013, at 06:56, cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
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>  On 24/07/2013 1:50 AM, Göran Eriksson AP wrote:
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>    - Troubleshooting WebRTC: There is a gaping hope when it comes to
>    user-facing diagnostic tools.
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>  Just to make sure I understand Your point- could You elaborate in what
> You mean and add some concrete proposals? Do You for instance mean the
> stats API?
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>  Hi Göran,
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>     Imagine you wrote a production web conferencing app and customers are
> calling tech support saying "It doesn't work" where do you begin?
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>     A good starting point is looking at Skype. Skype provides a
> user-friendly UI that gives a quick overview of potential network,
> hardware, configuration problems and allows you to drill-down for more
> information. I am asking for:
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>    - A user-facing UI that allows you to drill down from a high to low
>    level.
>    - Make this functionality available through an API so applications can
>    collect this information programmatically and, say, refund a user if a
>    meeting was aborted due to no fault of his own.
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>     One problem I found very hard to diagnose (in development, not to
> mention production) is why I was getting smooth video at home but choppy
> video at a customer's location. Is the bandwidth too low? Is the latency
> too high? Is the router dropping UDP packets? Is the CPU usage too high
> (leading WebRTC to drop frames)? Etc... It goes on and on. The stats API
> dumps a lot of information (too much for me to parse quickly, obviously)
> but even with all this information it's hard to come up with a conclusive
> answer to these actions.
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> Chrome has a very helpful chrome://webrtc-internals/ page which shows all
> the API calls and results
> along with graphs of the status of all the media flows.
> I find this very helpful when debugging.
> I haven't found an equivalent in firefox yet.
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That's b/c it doesn't exist yet. It's on the list, but unfortunately so are
a lot
of other things...

-Ekr