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In the last few months, an increasing number of developers are asking for information on how to integrate IP video cameras with WebRTC. Solving this problem requires, in general, a lot of plumbing and deep knowledge about low level details of media protocols. Moreover, the distance between making "just a demo" and making a production-ready application is huge. In this post, we

Open source software communities are complex structures where different interests, expectations and visions need to converge and find some kind of equilibrium.

It was a long wait but it was worthy: today Kurento Media Server v 6.0 (KMS v6.0) has come to live. KMS v6.0 is the answer to the feedback we have received from the Kurento community during the last year. In this time, the community has growth significantly and now more than 300 companies are using Kurento with different objectives.

Kurento V5 is out bringing a completely new modular architecture with more features, improved video quality, richer APIs and providing seamless installation in any Ubuntu 14.04 box.

Videoconferencing and, her sister, video telephony, are like a pulsar star: they appear and disappear from the “killer application” spectrum periodically, but never arrive to be one of the essential services users can’t live without. Some recent initiatives such as Apple’s FaceTime have come back to the old concept of face-to-face communications.