Migrating from 5.0.0 to 5.4.0

The 5.4.0 release of the Red5 Pro WebRTC SDK saw some minor changes related to WebRTC clients, and in particular how WebSoskcet and RTCPeerConnections are made:

• The default ports used for WebSocket connection change from 8081 and 8083 (insecure and secure, respectively) to 5080 and 443 (insecure and secure, respectively.

  • WebSocket communication with the Red5 Pro Server will now be made over the same port for HTTP/S.
  • To support backward compatiibilty for webapps out in the wild, the WebRTC SDK will recognize previously defaulted values and silently change the values to new default values.

• The iceServers configuration property has been deprecated in favor of the new rtcConfiguration configuration property.

  • Refer to section: RTCConfiguration

RTCConfiguration

Prior to the 5.4.0 release of the Red5 Pro WebRTC SDK, configuration of underlying RTCPeerConnections for both publisher and subscriber clients was constructed "under the hood". The only property exposed on the initialization configuration was the iceServers property.

Using the iceServers configuration property, developers could deine the set of ICE endpoints desired in the peer negotiation process.

The iceServers configuration property has been deprecated in favor of the newly introduced rtcConfiguration property, exposing to developers more control over the RTCConfiguration used when establishing RTCPeerConnections for both publisher and subscriber clients.

The rtcConfiguration is an object that directly correlates to the RTCConfiguration object that is handed to a RTCPeerConnection upon instantiation:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCConfiguration

RTCConfiguration Example

Previously, developers would define the desired ICE endpoints for negotiation using the iceServers initialization configuration property:

const config = {
  host: 'myserver.com',
  protocol: 'wss',
  port: 443,
  app: 'live',
  streamName: 'mystream',
  iceServers: [{urls: 'stun:stun2.l.google.com:19302'}]
}
var publisher = new red5prosdk.RTCPublisher()
publisher.init(config)
  .then(() => {
    publisher.publish()
  })
  .catch(error => {
    // handle error.
  })

With the introduction of the rtcConfiguration initialization configuration property, developers can still define the desired iceServers but as a nested attribute in the rtcConfiguration map:

const config = {
  host: 'myserver.com',
  protocol: 'wss',
  port: 443,
  app: 'live',
  streamName: 'mystream',
  rtcConfiguration: {
    iceServers: [{urls: 'stun:stun2.l.google.com:19302'}],
    iceCandidatePoolSize: 2,
    bundlePolicy: 'max-bundle'
  }
}
var publisher = new red5prosdk.RTCPublisher()
publisher.init(config)
  .then(() => {
    publisher.publish()
  })
  .catch(error => {
    // handle error.
  })

The rtcConfiguration is an object that directly correlates to the RTCConfiguration object that is handed to a RTCPeerConnection upon instantiation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCConfiguration