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March 2025

RTC.ON NEWSLETTER #11

RTC.ON 2025 tickets & CFP are here!

Monthly Newsletter

RTC.ON NEWSLETTER – APRIL EDITION

Each month, our team gets together and give you a selection of multimedia dev content. Here's what we've prepared for you this time!

  • RTC.ON ticket sale is now .ON! Grab your ticket with a 50% Super Early Bird discount + a special 10% off with a code news10 (valid till Friday Apr 11).
  • Along with the ticket sale, we've just opened RTC.ON 2025 CFP! Interested in becoming the next RTC.ON star? See topic list for this year & apply here!
  • LiveDebugger, a debugger for Phoenix Liveview apps, is finally here 🎉
  • Our must-reads, picked by Software Mansion devs
  • Elixir Conf EU – what can you expect

Grab yourself a coffee (or any drink of preference), sit back & enjoy the next edition of RTC.ON Newsletter – we hope you'll like it!

RTC.ON 2025 TICKETS ARE LIVE!

Karolina Kulig
MARKETING MANAGER @ SOFTWARE MANSION

We're coming back with the 3rd edition of RTC.ON conf!

Join us this September for a full day of practical workshops and 2 days of talks on all things multimedia. If topics like WebRTC, streaming, computer vision & AI sound up your valley – then RTC.ON is definitely something for you!

. 🚀 WHAT: RTC.ON Conf 2025

🕕 WHEN: 17-19 September 2025

📍 WHERE: Kraków, Poland, Software Mansion office (Zabłocie 43B)

The Super Early Bird Tickets are now on sale – secure your spot now and get a 50% discount off the standard price.

We've also prepared a little something to the newsletter subscribers (thanks for being with us!): use code news10 to get an extra 10% off 💸

The code is valid until Friday, April 11.

But that's not all – we've also just opened our 2025 Call For Proposals!

Based on the feedback from the previous years, we've prepared a list of potential topics that could inspire you for coming up with a talk idea.

Have something else on your mind? Feel free to submit your talk, too – we'll for sure take it into consideration!

OUR MUST-READS

Piotr Wodecki, Przemek Rożnawski

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS @ SOFTWARE MANSION

RTC BITS | Link

Another sneaky WebRTC optimisation only known by Google Meet (RemoteEstimate RTCP packets)

On November 19, 2023, the Cricket World Cup final match set a new global record with 59 million concurrent viewers. The event has been streamed on a Disney+ Hotstar platform. Watch a talk with the principal engineer behind this system to understand how this was made possible and learn the challenges of broadcasting at such a large scale.

HUGGING FACE BLOG | Link

FastRTC: The Real-Time Communication Library for Python

Hugging Face introduces FastRTC, a Python library designed to simplify the development of real-time audio and video applications. With features like automatic voice detection and built-in UI, FastRTC allows ML engineers to integrate WebRTC technology into their projects with minimum effort and knowledge requirements.

ELIXIR LANG BLOG | Link

Cyanview: Coordinating Super Bowl's visual fidelity with Elixir

Discover how Cyanview uses Elixir to manage camera systems for major events like the Super Bowl. This case study highlights Elixir's networking prowess and resilience, which enable Cyanview to maintain consistent visual quality across hundreds of cameras. It's a fascinating look at how Elixir supports critical broadcast infrastructure where resiliency is of paramount importance.

CLOUDFLARE BLOG | Link

Dynamically optimize, clip, and resize video from any origin with Media Transformations

Cloudflare's new Media Transformations service extends the capabilities of Image Transformations to video, allowing users to optimize, clip, and resize videos directly from their existing storage. This service is ideal for handling large volumes of short-form video content, offering an interesting way to enhance video delivery without having to store multiple pre-processed versions of the same video.

LIVEDEBUGGER, A DEBUGGER FOR LIVEVIEW APPS, IS HERE!

Krzysztof Nalepa

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS @ SOFTWARE MANSION

With the recent launch of Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0, the library has become more popular and is now considered as a compelling option for developers creating web applications. In response to the growing demand and the unique debugging challenges presented by this technology, we developed LiveDebugger.

Read full blogpost below and learn about LiveDebugger's features in more detail:

ELIXIR CONF EU IS COMING NEXT MONTH

Karolina Kulig

MARKETING MANAGER @ SOFTWARE MANSION

The 2025 edition of Elixir Conf EU is almost here! The lineup for this year is next level – make sure to check it out in full.

We're very excited to be a part of it – here are the talks that you'll hear from the Software Mansion crew!

KEYNOTE: The AtomVM and New Horizons for Elixir by Mateusz Front and Davide Bettio

Key takeaways:

- Learn what AtomVM is and how it differs from the BEAM

- Learn the basics of how Elixir runtimes work

- Learn about previous attempts to run Elixir on different platforms

- Learn how AtomVM makes Elixir more versatile and how you can help

Live video styling with LiveView and Boombox by Feliks Pobiedzinski

Key takeaways:

- How to use Boombox within a Phoenix application

- How to use Membrane.WebRTC.Live library to establish a live multimedia connection between a browser and an Elixir server using ready-to-use LiveView components

- How to use Boombox, to ingest multimedia streams, process them in Elixir and stream them further using state-of-the-art network protocols, e.g. WebRTC

- How to integrate Boombox with a generative AI model that produces video


MORE OF US

We hope you enjoy the RTC.ON newsletter as much as we do. It's great to see all of you joining us each month for a little multimedia walk through – thanks!

Here are some more ways to connect with us:

  • Discord – we have a community of over 1000 multimedia devs (and still growing!)
  • X– we're posting all things multimedia on our Membrane account. Creating something with Membrane? Make sure to tag us so we see your work!
  • RTC.ON Conf – if you haven't checked it out yet, make sure you do :)

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Happy streaming :)