Video guides and tutorials

These guides help you implement specific features, optimize performance, and troubleshoot your Twilio Video application. Choose a topic below to find the guides you need.

Add interactive features and functionality to your Video Rooms.

• Detect the dominant speaker
• Add screen sharing
• Add virtual backgrounds
• Understand reconnection states and events
• Build collaboration features with the DataTrack API
• Add Programmable Voice participants to Video Rooms
• Configure maximum participant duration
• Use Video for telemedicine virtual visits

Record, Compose, and store your video content.

• Understanding Video Recordings and Compositions
• Secure and encrypt your stored media
• Store videos in AWS S3
• Manually mix Track Recording files

Optimize video and audio quality for the best user experience.

• Develop high quality video applications
• Set Video region for global low latency
• Enable noise cancellation
• Work with VP8 simulcast
• Use the Network Bandwidth Profile API
• Use the Network Quality API
• Manage codecs
• Use the Track Priority API

Provide secure access to your Video application using tokens and configuring network firewalls.

• Generate and use Access Tokens
• Add IP addresses to your allow list
• Configure networking
• Understand media security

Prepare your application for growth and understand account quotas.

• Guide to Scaling Applications
• Programmable Video Quotas and Limits

Monitor, debug, and diagnose your Video application.

• Use Video Insights
• Access Video data with the Video Log Analyzer API
• Run pre-call testing and diagnostics
• Test connectivity with the Preflight API
• Get real-time metrics with the JavaScript Room Monitor
• Access troubleshooting logs with the JavaScript logger