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RTCRtpSender setParameters() extensions for requesting the generation of a key frame

Category

WebRTC

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 122)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Adds an optional second parameter to WebRTC's RTCRtpSender.setParameters call which can be used to ask the associated encoder to generate a key frame.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-extensions/#rtcrtpsender-setparameters-keyframe
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive — Microsoft Teams is quite interested in the feature.
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1354101

Docs: https://fippo.github.io/webrtc-explainers/rtcrtpsender-setparameters

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