Updates to Web Client SDK (v3.7.0-beta.1)

Web Client SDK

3.7.0-beta.1

Features

• Improved the local participant's video stream management to allow blurring the participant's background or replacing the background with a selected image. To use these features, you can either call the startVideo or setVideoProcessor method. These features are currently supported only on Chrome and Edge on desktop operating systems.

• Introduced the enableVideo and disableVideo methods that are responsible for sending the local participant's video stream to the conference or sending a remote participant's video stream to the local participant. This allows the local participant to enable video locally, as a preview, without sending it to the conference. It also allows the participant to not receive selected remote participant's video streams.

• Introduced the new startCustomVideo method that allows replacing the video captured by the local participant's camera with a video from a custom track. Currently, this method is supported only on Chrome and Edge on desktop operating systems.

Changes

• Deprecated the existing startVideo and stopVideo methods and replaced them with the startVideo and stopVideo methods that are available in the new VideoService.

• This release requires you to copy the vsl_impl.wasm and vsl_impl.pkgwvsl files to the src folder of your application. For more information, see the Create a Basic Audio Conference Application guide.