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Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by aquadrop »

kabes wrote: post #45
aquadrop wrote: post #42

I have tried it some time ago and it was pretty good in terms of video quality. Maybe someone knows, I was searching for something that would allow me to have almost local video quality for a chat app. I don't understand why there's anything that let me do it if I'm sitting on a good wifi and the other person also sitting in the same building on a good wifi. I even don't care about latency much, as long as it's withi…

Thing is, video conferencing/chat apps use technologies like webRTC (which is basically RTP). They are totally focused on super low latency ( If you want better video quality and can live with multi-second latency you need to look at different technologies like RTMP or HLS, which is what youtube/facebook streams do.

I understand they focus on low latency in general, but why it's not customizable and no one allows to tweak/switch what you prefer? Youtube streams etc lack interactivity of videochat. It's just I'm sitting in the same building with another person, on the same wifi with multiple hundreds of megabits/s available to us, using powerful phones/tablets and there's nothing that can deliver good quality of video? Seems weird.

Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by Vinnl »

gardnr wrote: post #5

This is owned by Atlassian. After you submit a pull request they send you a huge contributor agreement saying that all your contributions are owned by Atlassian. Fuck that.

So what's the alternative. I juggle many different video conferencing tools, and most of them require me to install their app, are closed source, and/or only run in Chrome. The closest I've found is Whereby, but that has a limit of 4 people and is closed source, I think.

Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by Vinnl »

speedplane wrote: post #39

In 2020, a company that provides a product for free without a standard business model will be met with skepticism: not just from investors, but from users. How is jit.si able to do this for free where many other companies charge? Are they monetizing user data? Or trying to upsell some parent company services? Is this an honest-for-goodness non-profit because someone was fed up with video conferencing? None of these a…

I wondered about this too. Luckily, they are transparent, in their FAQ: https://jitsi.org/user-faq/

> If Jitsi doesn’t make any money, how can it continue to support the project?

> We are fortunate that our friends at 8×8 fully fund the project. 8×8 uses Jitsi technology in products like Virtual Office. The open source community and meet.jit.si service help to make Jitsi better, which makes 8×8 products better, which helps to further fund Jitsi. This virtuous cycle has worked well in the past and should continue to for many years to come.

Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by paulcarroty »

knocte wrote: post #37
animalnewbie wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Umm what phone are you using? I hope you realize that contrary to what you think Android isn't completely open source and some of the most key parts are owned by probably the biggest enemy of privacy on Earth.

But it's more opensource than iOS.

It feels like "more pregnant".

Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by est31 »

rnhmjoj wrote: post #47

Friendly reminder that meet.jit.si is not end-to-end encrypted. So, unless hosting your own instance, using the website or the videoconference integration in Riot means your conversation is routed through an Atlassian-owned server. See https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/409#issuecomment-... .

Are there any E2EE alternatives to it?

Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by commoner »

est31 wrote: post #56
rnhmjoj wrote: post #47

Friendly reminder that meet.jit.si is not end-to-end encrypted. So, unless hosting your own instance, using the website or the videoconference integration in Riot means your conversation is routed through an Atlassian-owned server. See https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/409#issuecomment-... .

Are there any E2EE alternatives to it?

Nextcloud Talk is end-to-end encrypted, but not as easy to set up as Jitsi Meet.

https://nextcloud.com/talk

https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed

Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by smichel17 »

ddevault wrote: post #10

We were using this for a while to do meetings for sr.ht, but we recently switched to - believe it or not - Mumble. It's old and unsexy but damn it's reliable.

Same at Snowdrift.coop. We still try jitsi again every once in a while because we'd like to make joining our meetings more accessible to new contributors, or if we want video. However, jitsi quality tends to degrade in meetings with 5+ people or when one person had a bad connection. Not always, but enough where we've wasted meetings due to struggling with tech. In the end, how well it works matters more than how sexy it is, and the reliability of mumble just can't be beat.

Re: Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing

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Post by lub »

rnhmjoj wrote: post #47

Friendly reminder that meet.jit.si is not end-to-end encrypted. So, unless hosting your own instance, using the website or the videoconference integration in Riot means your conversation is routed through an Atlassian-owned server. See https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/409#issuecomment-... .

afaik jitsi.riot.im (the Jitsi Meet instance used by Riot) is provided by New Vector, not Atlassian
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