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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…
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…
I looked at Jitsi's website and Github yesterday and couldn't find any documentation. For example, it wasn't clear to me why I would want to run Videobridge, or what features Meet has.
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I can't convince anyone to not use Facetime.
Facetime has the best audio/video quality of any conferencing software I've used by a mile. If free software, vendor lock in, excluding those without Apple products, etc. etc. aren't sticking points for you, Facetime is awesome for a family/group of friends with iDevices.
Is the Android App open source? I haven't been able to find the source code for the play store app on the jitsi github account.
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 c…
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Do you mean some parties are unable to connect? There are some open issues, limitations, and Jitsi Meet does not officially support all browsers. Here is the supported list: https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/blob/master/modules/... For example, Brave Browser is still not fully supported: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/3978
FWIW, it works great on my Chromebook, meeted up with myself on my Android. Even used x86 Bromite browser on Chromebook, and even blur background worked after a slight delay. Impressive.