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> Here they have a nicely compressed stream of video data But they don't. They support 7 different meeting providers (Zoom, Meet, WebEx, ...), none of which h
by dmazzoni 2y ago
> Here they have a nicely compressed stream of video data
But they don't.
They support 7 different meeting providers (Zoom, Meet, WebEx, ...), none of which have an API that give you access to the compressed video stream.
In theory, you could try to reverse-engineer each protocol...but then your product could break for potentially days or weeks anytime one of those companies decides to change their protocol - vs web scraping, where if it breaks they can probably fix it in 15 minutes.
Their solution is inefficient, but robust. And that's ultimately a more monetizable product.