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Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by Brakenshire »

brigandish wrote: post #24

The home page looks like it was designed by a 20 year old who lives in a world of Javascript package managers. Get someone over 50 in there to kick them and remind them that "Start a new meeting" with things like "LeopardBottomSniffer" appearing under it means nothing to anyone but developers. Here's a better design, in text: - Who are we? This is Jitsi Meet video conferencing - How do I use it? Just type a name for…

Granny won’t set up a room, but you can send her a link on email or Whatsapp which can open the chat in a browser or redirect to an app download depending on platform, and also offer dial in options. That seems as intuitive as the process can be. The app also seems extremely straightforward. Granny usability is actually exactly what I’m looking for, and on first glance I’m impressed.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

johnxie wrote: post #20

We have a lot of experience working with Jitsi Meet, if anyone has questions integrating Jitsi, free to send me an email john@taskade.com. Happy to help!

What kind of work would it take to build video conferencing using jitsi meet into a mobile app?

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by joecot »

mmanfrin wrote: post #23

There doesn't appear to be a share-window/share-screen option which feels like that makes this a non-starter for a lot of work-related applications.

There is, just on a different domain[1]. They had an article[2] about adding it last year.

1. https://meet.jit.si/

2. https://jitsi.org/news/introducing-presenter-mode/

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

ISO-morphism wrote: post #26

I've tried Jitsi Meet and found it to be smooth. During a hangout call with a group of ~8 friends I introduced it as an alternative. User experience comparison: Onboarding: Jitsi: Click a URL. No accounts. Hangouts: Google account. Need to individually invite other Google accounts. Video Quality: Jitsi: Decent, slightly better than hangouts. Hangouts: Passable but grainy. Video Layout: Jitsi: Automatically big-screen…

> Conclusion: Friends preferred Hangouts.

... but why? Is it just a familiarity thing?

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by Johnyma22 »

crazygringo wrote: post #41

I'm curious... between Whereby and Jitsi and I assume other browser-based video solutions relying on WebRTC... ...how big is the barrier these days to building a "videoconferencing platform" supporting millions of people... that runs on a single server? Because if you need to do is build a pretty website that essentially just keeps track of meeting names and the names and IP addresses of participants... ...while each…

I rolled https://video.etherpad.org out within 5 minutes. It's a single command once Etherpad is installed (npm install ep_webrtc).

There is one complication most people don't realize -- Failed Reverse NAT traversal: For this you need a TURN server (I'm intentionally ignoring STUN for obvious reasons).

TURN servers have to route the actual media (video / audio) from user a b c but only if the user(s) can't directly connect. We hit Tb's a day through our TURN server and it gets expensive.

But complexity wise, it's an absolute doddle! Give it a go, if you have nodejs installed 90% of your work is done!

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by tootie »

ISO-morphism wrote: post #26

I've tried Jitsi Meet and found it to be smooth. During a hangout call with a group of ~8 friends I introduced it as an alternative. User experience comparison: Onboarding: Jitsi: Click a URL. No accounts. Hangouts: Google account. Need to individually invite other Google accounts. Video Quality: Jitsi: Decent, slightly better than hangouts. Hangouts: Passable but grainy. Video Layout: Jitsi: Automatically big-screen…

I can't convince anyone to not use Facetime.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by johnxie »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #53
johnxie wrote: post #20

We have a lot of experience working with Jitsi Meet, if anyone has questions integrating Jitsi, free to send me an email john@taskade.com. Happy to help!

What kind of work would it take to build video conferencing using jitsi meet into a mobile app?

It took us a while to get video conferencing working on iOS and Android but it is doable and can be cross-platform.

This may be helpful:

- https://community.jitsi.org/t/integrate-jitsi-meet-in-existi...

- https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-jitsi-meet

You can check out our demos here:

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/taskade-manage-anything/id1264...

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.taskade.mo...

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by rvz »

brigandish wrote: post #24

The home page looks like it was designed by a 20 year old who lives in a world of Javascript package managers. Get someone over 50 in there to kick them and remind them that "Start a new meeting" with things like "LeopardBottomSniffer" appearing under it means nothing to anyone but developers. Here's a better design, in text: - Who are we? This is Jitsi Meet video conferencing - How do I use it? Just type a name for…

Absolutely this. We need alternatives to Zoom and Hangouts which can be used by non-developers which should "just work" which Jitisi does to some extent but unfortunately, Zoom is still in the lead with a reason.

End users were looking for software a while back to do remote work or tele-conferencing and first it was companies that were using Zoom or Hangouts. By the time I saw actors and the mainstream media were mentioning and using Zoom [0], its mindshare was established right there and Jitsi now has a lot of catching up to do.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-51999522/coronaviru...

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by wenc »

I wonder if anyone (who also has Zoom) could comment on how Jitsi actually compares to Zoom for 20+ people with full video? (since the title pits it against Zoom)

I'm seeing comments how how good Jitsi is, but can someone categorically say Jitsi is comparable to or better than Zoom?

The advantages of Zoom are ease of setup, smooth simultaneous video experience (tiled) for 20+ participants, and breakout rooms. The experience is so good that I was convinced to fork out my own money for a personal subscription. If Jitsi can do all of the above, I'd be inclined to try it out for my next meeting.

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