Updates - Meshcast.io
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Pushed a needed update to the Meshcast servers; should help solve the "Meshcast not available" problem that was happening every couple months.
Added 3 new Meshcast servers: Toronto, Oregon, Virginia.
Support for iPhone/iPads now
Added screen sharing support; just select it from the list. If using Chrome/Edge/Brave, you can select desktop or tab audio along with the screen-share. Resolution is left up to the browser to decide.
Someone asked about me making a video talking about Meshcast to help them understand if they could use it; it's up now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxduINMXw1M It's a bit technical and long-winded, but it covers most of everything.
Meshcast.io supports audio and video-only publishing modes now; just select "no video" for example from the drop down. Also shows audio-bitrate stats now.
Added an audio-loudness meter.
Updated to let you select a video codec; rather than the default software h264. mind you, other codecs may have compatibility issues.
added &noaudio to meshcast.io, which can be used in place of &mute when sharing a Meshcast broadcast link into a VDO.Ninja room. Blocks audio from playing, which can help avoid feedback/echo issues.
Added logic to Meshcast.io that auto-switches away from slow/dead servers, despite perhaps being the closest edge node.
Updated a bit, including adding some new servers and replacing some others. Applies to the &meshcast flag as well.
There's a drop down to select different regions; it automatically tries to select the closest though.
Things are more responsive with the updated code, but its new code -- let me know if any bugs occur.
https://meshcast.io/view.html?id=xxxxx&muted if using Meshcast, you can share the view link into VDO.Ninja or elsewhere, and have the audio be muted by default using the &muted (&mute) command.
Using this flag, you can have two versions of a Meshcast output -- one suitable for a group-room, where you don't want audio or feedback issues with your guests, but another for mass consumption by an audience, which includes audio.
Meshcast.io should work with firefox and safari viewers now, if that was an issue for anyone before.
Added mute support to meshcast.io; so if you mute in VDO.Ninja, it will also mute in Meshcast now.
EU and US Meshcast server allows for higher bitrates, if you decrease the max audience size.
Updated Meshcast.io with a European deployment (US + EU now). It will auto-select the closest location, so no need to pick location. Definitely still all experimental, but feedback welcomed; https://meshcast.io/
For those with weak CPU's, but want to use VDO.Ninja with a larger group, I have a prototype of a tool to make that possible now done. It's NOT ready for production, as it is still buggy and I am resetting the service constantly as I develop it out, but it should eventually allow you to make rooms of over 10 people accessible even on slow OBS computers. https://meshcast.io/
Info on whether a region is overloaded or not is present; should always read "good", but who knows.
