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Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

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Re: Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

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If this is backed by Twilio cloud webRTC API, I believe that does not support more that 50 people at a time watching the video

I have been using Janus[1] signaling server to broadcast live drone video on my website and it has worked flawlessly with multiple expectators. The drone video is captured through a Janus webrtc library in the Android phone connected to the drone.[3]

With a TURN server from Xirsys[2], I have had live drone video recording as well as barely a second of latency. I disabled peer2peer video because I do not want a 4G connection to broadcast to multiple viewers.

The reason I have not used twilio(even though I evaluated its offerings) is that they do not provide on premises hosting and my potential customers are not normally interested in not having on premises hosting.

[1] https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/ [2] https://xirsys.com [3] https://github.com/ptsneves/janus-gateway-android

Re: Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

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Here is a link to my fork of the repo shared by the OP: https://github.com/crtr0/twilio-video-app-react You can try it out at: https://video-app-7758-dev.twil.io?passcode=7020447758 Just enter your name and the room "HN".

ERROR Media connection failed or Media activity ceased Error Code: 53405

Hate to say it, but: Works for me ™

Was that an error on the webpage or in the JS console?

Re: Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

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Disclaimer: I used to work at Twilio I'm seeing discussion below about fully open-source solutions (Jitsi Meet) vs. fully proprietary solutions (Zoom). What's interesting about using Twilio is that it is a programmable solution. Case in point: I am building a webpage where people can log-in to a virtual office, so that people working from home don't feel so lonely. I have certain requirements, such as: - All audio is…

Cisco Webex also has fully programmable SDKs[0], with the flexibility to either manage video windows and controls directly[1] or embed fully functional widgets. Zoom also has extensive APIs and SDKs[2], though I'm not familiar with how flexible they actually are.

[0] https://developer.webex.com/docs/platform-introduction

[1] https://github.com/webex/webex-ios-sdk-example-buddies

[2] https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/sdk/native-sdks/preface/int...

Re: Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

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Our company, Daily.co (YC W16), makes APIs that compete with these new Twilio offerings. A couple of lines of js code embeds a video call in a web page:

  https://docs.daily.co/docs
Our focus has been on doing as much as possible to make video calls reliable, and helping developers get started with video as quickly as possible.

Twilio is a great company. Jitsi is a great open source project. As always, there's room for different approaches to solving hard problems, for different customers. We've found that the biggest pain point for lots of developers are that 1) building out a full video call UI is non-trivial, and 2) handling all the failure cases possible in real-world calls is non-trivial. So we try to solve those two problems.

I love this stuff (this is the third time I've built a video tech stack, in my career), and I'm happy to answer any questions about WebRTC, building live video into applications, and give you (relatively) non-biased advice about tools/approaches for your particular goals.

Re: Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

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Disclaimer: I used to work at Twilio I'm seeing discussion below about fully open-source solutions (Jitsi Meet) vs. fully proprietary solutions (Zoom). What's interesting about using Twilio is that it is a programmable solution. Case in point: I am building a webpage where people can log-in to a virtual office, so that people working from home don't feel so lonely. I have certain requirements, such as: - All audio is…

It definitely has a lot of potential but nobody is going to re-assign a bunch of engineers to code up a solution to their immediate need for massive teleconferencing capabilities today - as I imagine the timing of this launch is heavily influenced by the Coronaviris and current demand of these tools. Where I think it does play in is that while Zoom is probably making a lot of sales right now, they are probably starti…

We're a startup that makes a video API that competes with Twilio. I can tell you that we're seeing a big increase in interest this week from both big companies and startups, across a big range of use cases. (Lots of telehealth and online education. Also lots of cool "distributed teams" experiments.)

Re: Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

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If this is backed by Twilio cloud webRTC API, I believe that does not support more that 50 people at a time watching the video

I have been using Janus[1] signaling server to broadcast live drone video on my website and it has worked flawlessly with multiple expectators. The drone video is captured through a Janus webrtc library in the Android phone connected to the drone.[3] With a TURN server from Xirsys[2], I have had live drone video recording as well as barely a second of latency. I disabled peer2peer video because I do not want a 4G con…

Wow @ptsneves, that sounds really cool. Could you give me a consultation on video streaming? I want to implement this into my product. If so, please write to my username at gmail. Thank you!

Re: Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

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I tried Jitsi and I love the UI but it uses so much CPU... Still looking for a self-hosted alternative.

if I may ask, what did you not like about Jitsi? the backend server /videobridge is pretty cool. When you say ui cpu usaage, do you mean the browser /javascript UI ?

Yes, browser/javascript UI. I was testing it with a colleague and having 2 people in a meeting CPU usage already hit 50% and with 4 it was 100% all the time and the CPU was boosting to its maximum. Tests done on latest Chrome.
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