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WebRTC Enabled

We've enabled experimental support for WebRTC on both Dev and Main. WebRTC is a next-generation technology which allows video+voice chat to happen between you and your fellow players through native browser support. No Flash or other plugins required. In addition, WebRTC is a Peer to Peer technology, meaning that once the connection is established, you aren't sending the video through our servers first as a relay. So if your fellow players are all fairly close geographically but far away from our servers (e.g. you all play in Australia), this should provide a much better experience for you. However, there are of course a couple of caveats: 1) This is currently only supported by Chrome 23+. Most of you should be on 24 by now (the latest version). Firefox support is incoming but it's currently only available in Firefox nightly builds so it may be a month or two before it ships to the general public. 2) This is extremely new technology. PLEASE let us know if it works for you, what problems you encounter, etc. It's going to be buggy right now, but the more testing we do (and feed back to the browser developers as well) the better it will get. And we really, really want this to get better because it's a much better situation for Roll20 in general to use this tech than what we're currently using. 3) Some of the settings in the My Settings tab (e.g. "I want to receive from others") don't currently work. You can use the individual Camera and Sound icons on top of each video feed (including your own) to turn on/off video/voice broadcast and reception. Note that currently setting "Avatars" to "Names Only" does not stop broadcasting or receiving video/audio. To use WebRTC , just go to the My Settings panel and scroll to the bottom and click the "Use WebRTC" button. All members of your campaign (not just the GM) have to press this button after they join. At some point in the future we'll add a flag so you can set your campaign's default method (after it's a bit more stable). Thanks!
Bumping this -- has anyone tried this yet to either success or failure? Thanks!
I've tried it logging in by myself, but not with any groups yet. Seemed to work.
I logged in with one of my players, and both of use up to date Chrome, and hit use WebRTC and nothing happened. It didn't ask for any permissions or anything. We then both tried hitting F5, and completely closing the table and reopening it. Still nothing.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Will, it appears that it doesn't work for me either on Main but it does work for me on Dev.  If anyone has gotten WebRTC to work on Main please speak up. :) - Gauss
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Konrad J.
Pro
API Scripter
I tried it a week or so ago when I first saw the announcement, but it did nothing for me. :(
We're actually going to be changing the way this works in a week or two. So stand by for that announcement :-)
Yaaaay!
It worked perfectly for us. Only two of us were online though. We will be testing it with a group of 6 on the 8th of April. This will be a godsend for us as we all live in Australia. It took a little mucking around to get it to work but we are very happy that we have this as an option.
We tried it, but there was no noticeable difference between tokbox and WebRTC. We just use Skype. Everyone hates it though. Just another program to keep track of.