Playground

Overview

Playground is a tool that enables exploring of Video API capabilities directly in the browser, without the need to write any code. It is a showcase for the most important and representative features available in the Vonage Video API, regularly updated alongside the API and its libraries to reflect the latest enhancements.

Use cases

• Exploring platform capabilities.
• Running tests across different SDK versions to assess backward compatibility and new feature stability.
• Comparing audio/video performance under different media mode configurations.
• Joining ongoing sessions to observe real-time user experience and debug issues as they occur.
• Benchmarking against custom-made solutions for debugging purposes.

Features

• Creating a new Video session.
• Joining an existing Video session.
• Publishing and subscribing to a stream.
• Testing publisher options.
• Using Signaling to send text and data between publishers.
• Recording a session's audio-video streams for future inspection.
• Broadcasting a video session to a large audience live with many viewers.
• Dialing SIP call as a stream.
• Using Post-Call Transcriptions.
• Setting advanced options for IP Proxy.
• Testing relayed and routed media modes.
• Using configurable TURN servers.
• Using Experience Composer.

Limitations

It does not support mobile browsers and cannot simulate the native mobile experience. However, you can use the Video API Playground to join a session with mobile participants.