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.
• Using live captions.
• Setting publisher max bitrate and video presets
• Testing session migration
• Setting Preferred Framerate and Preferred Resolution support for Publisher

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.