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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 dontdieych »

Naac wrote: post #72
fergbrain wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use it with Firefox and it works just fine

What version of Firefox? What OS? Can confirm Firefox-dev on Linux has no working video.

Arch linux Firefox Nightly 76

Works fine though not tested mic(muted on system).

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by swiley »

jpdus wrote: post #43

The main reasons for Zooms popularity (and in general the most important features of a videoconferencing software) are accessibility and reliability. Same as with Slack/IRC - privacy is not the most important features in that space. If I have the choice of a working solution with some minor privacy issues and a solution which will never be adopted b/c half of the people will not be able to join or their experience is…

Zoom’s privacy issues are more than minor, if my friends started using it and I couldn’t get the web version to work I wouldn’t do a conference call with them.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by Fice »

Naac wrote: post #72
fergbrain wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use it with Firefox and it works just fine

What version of Firefox? What OS? Can confirm Firefox-dev on Linux has no working video.

Firefox 74.0 on Fedora works.

AFAIK Firefox on GNU/Linux uses Gstreamer. Maybe you need to install gstreamer codec packages.

Update: Firefox switched to FFmpeg and removed Gstreamer support some time ago. I have FFmpeg installed from rpmfusion, but I don't know if that's relevant to WebRTC and Jitsi.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by mixmastamyk »

tekknolagi wrote: post #80

To the authors, if they see this: I'm trying to use this to call my mother and we are both just looking at our own faces. I've confirmed -- via separate video call on phones -- that we're at the same URL, both look connected, and both have camera permissions. There's no indication that anything is wrong on either of our computers.

Great for narcissists.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by lberk »

nicoburns wrote: post #85
ISO-morphism wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a shame FaceTime was never made open. I heard that this was Apple's original intention, but there were issues with patents (not held by Apple).

I'm not sure it was actually Apple's original intention. Rumour has it the decision was made on stage[0]

[0] - https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standa...

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by andrepd »

I was wondering just now why in the midst of all this remote working boom Jitsi Meet is seldom mention. Jitsi Meet has been absolutely stellar every time I've used it. Great interface, not bloated even when running in a browser with 10+ other people, plenty of options to manage conferences with many people (raise-your-hand button, selective muting/soloing, etc). Creating a chat is as easy as typing a name and hitting enter, no account needed! And getting somebody to join is as simple as clicking a link to meet.jitsi.net/yourchatroomname.

On top of that it's open source and end to end encrypted.

Disclaimer: no affiliation, just a happy user.

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