Membrane Update: April 2023

Jellyfish:

• Completed REST API, including OpenAPI and AsyncAPI deployment
• Authentication
• First server-side notifications
• Elixir Server SDK, TS and React Client SDK
• Sample applications - dashboard, minimal-react, minimal, simple-app
• Docker images
• Documentation for Jellyfish and each SDK
• Workshops on ElixirConf in Lisbon (Jellyfish presentation)
• WebRTC and RC fixes for iOS
• Media preview in React WebRTC SDK
• Switching between speakers on mobile
• Basic RTSP support in RTC engine

Membrane Core:

• Release v0.11.3 of Membrane Core
• Update existing Membrane packages in the Membrane framework organization, so that they use Membrane Core v0.11
• Creation of benchmarks for offline processing
• Enabling crash groups in bins
• Ability to remove links without removing components
• Auto demands in sinks & endpoints

Membrane Videoroom (WebRTC):

• Update to Core 0.11
• New frontend features in Membrane Videoroom (​​link: https://videoroom.membrane.work)
• RTX (RTP retransmissions) in both directions
• New active speaker detection implementation
• Building new React libraries in Videoroom

Membrane Live (HLS):

• Refactoring and fixing bugs in components related to HLS
• Improving the stability of both frontend and backend components
• Reducing stream latency
• Enhancing stream quality
• Chat with moderation
• Membrane Live used for the first time officially at the All Hands meeting
• Updating to Core 0.11 and rebasing to master
• Refactoring HLS-related components

Smack (Community request team):

• Creating a Discord tool for generating pages based on Discord's help threads
• An Ogg depayloader in membrane_ogg_plugin, which will be able to read an Ogg file containing audio encoded with Opus codec
• Presenting Google Analytics, Discord and Hex metrics in internal application
• Video Compositor: Scene API, Queuing strategies design, Elixir-Rust integration
• Livebook integrations: membrane_kino_plugin, Video Compositor demo, Playing .mp3 file demo
• H.264 article
• Automating GitHub releases with Sebex
• Release v0.1.0 membrane_ffmpeg_generator - a tool for generating multimedia files for tests and demos. Check here.

Jellyfish:

• Adding RTSP to Jellyfish
• Transferring part of the logic from RTC engine to Jellyfish
• Completing server-side notifications
• Two new chapters in Jellybook
• Deployment of Jellyfish on Fly.io

Membrane Core:

• Release v1.0.0-rc1 of Membrane Core
• Release v0.12.0
• Continuing work on automatic demands
• Completing auto push
• Atomic-based demands

Membrane Videoroom (WebRTC):

• New product features in Videoroom such as: Google calendar add-on, poll after a call, etc
• Server-side WebRTC metrics
• Mic/cam device settings/choice

Membrane Live (HLS):

• Public deployment for outsiders to test
• Continuing work on stability improvements

Smack (Community request team):

• Video Compositor - implementation of a scene architecture abstraction that will make the compositor more easily extendable: Queuing strategies implementation, Temporal transformations
• A website tab based on our Discord threads, so that it is easier to find solutions for technical problems with Membrane
• Livebook integration: Playing RTMP stream demo
• Deprecation of old H264 parser
• MP4 depayloader
• Membrane React Native WebRTC educational materials and tutorials

Jellyfish:

• Simulcast refactor
• Migration of Videoroom to Jellyfish

Membrane Core:

• Maximum reduction of demands in favor of auto-demands (until we decide that we cannot limit them further)

Membrane Videoroom (WebRTC):

• Using Videoroom internally in all teams at Software Mansion

Membrane Live (HLS):

• Migration to Jellyfish

Smack (Community request team):

• Video Compositor: Multiple outputs
• Improvements and unification of a structure of readme files in plugins and demos
• Automatic checking if readme files provide sufficient instructions to install required native dependencies on various operating systems
• A documentation generator for native code

If you have any questions, you’re welcome to contact us via e-mail or on our Membrane Framework Discord channel.

Check out Jellybook and the Jellyfish documentation!

We’re looking forward to hearing from you and updating you on what’s new in Membrane!