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Meetecho
Company blog · meetecho.com/blogsystemsprogramming
Meetecho is the company blog at meetecho.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Meetecho's blog for posts on WebRTC, mainly WHIP and the Janus WebRTC server, and on end-to-end encryption with WebRTC SFUs. One commenter calls a WHIP-Janus post a good description.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Meetecho: experts in Real-Time Communication, authors of the Janus server!
What Hacker News says?
I am pretty sure that E2E encryption is impossible today if you are using a WebRTC SFU since there's no spec for it. The closest thing is PERC Lite [1] which no browsers support, though maybe you could cobble something together native. Is there some path I didn't know about? 1. https://www.meetecho.com/blog/meetecho-and-cosmo-strike-agai...
Comment linking /blog/meetecho-and-cosmo-strike-again-perc-lite-integration-in-janus/
on “Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool”Submitted WebRTC and NDI = Broadcasters Heaven? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou can deploy Kurento (or Janus itself, for that matter!) inside a subnet of the LAN, to act as a media bridge. Then, if the security group / firewall / whatever is configured so it allows the media bridge public network access, then it could be used to send the data directly to remote peers. This however would have the bridge in the middle of LAN connections, so it wouldn't be a point-to-point flow, and the server…
Comment linking /blog/janus-e2ee-sframe/
on “Janus WebRTC Server”Submitted 28 Days Later (my QUIC journey) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHopefully WHIP takes off. It’s a standard protocol that would easily allow things to interface with WebRTC. https://www.meetecho.com/blog/whip-janus/ https://millicast.medium.com/whip-the-magic-bullet-for-webrt...
Comment linking /blog/whip-janus/
on “FFmpeg to WebRTC”Submitted Getting Media Over QUIC and WebRTC to like each other as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWHIP seems the way to go. I found this good description of it https://www.meetecho.com/blog/whip-janus-part-ii/
Comment linking /blog/whip-janus-part-ii/
on “WebRTC support is being added to OBS”