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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 g_delgado14 »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #107
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 proposed Zoom vs Jitsi Meet the other day for a virtual hangout with a group of friends. They initially wanted to try Zoom... because of the virtual backgrounds. Yup, that is what they wanted. I shall suggest Jitsi Meet again soon ;).

I mean .. the ensuing hilarity from uploading funny background images doesn't get old

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by zemo »

MR4D wrote: post #106
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…

The url simplicity is nice, but it doesn’t work on an iPhone which is weird because it works on an iPad.

jitsi has dedicated apps for mobile https://jitsi.org/downloads/

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by MR4D »

johnxie wrote: post #40
monksy wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found that it had some issues with people connecting via the web clients. Is there a way to mitigate that or is that just expected with the software?

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

I’m curious why it works on iPad but not iPhone.

(Video doesn’t work on either, but that’s documented)

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by vikramkr »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #107
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 proposed Zoom vs Jitsi Meet the other day for a virtual hangout with a group of friends. They initially wanted to try Zoom... because of the virtual backgrounds. Yup, that is what they wanted. I shall suggest Jitsi Meet again soon ;).

I just looked up virtual background and that is insanely cool and I totally get where your friends are coming from. I've got to give that a shot sometime - the kinds of features people can build are just so cool

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by ElijahLynn »

brewdad wrote: post #32

How well does Jitsi scale? Can it handle a group of say 15 or so participants on a variety of devices?

It is based on WebRTC, so the actual video data doesn't pass through a central server. Google Duo uses this same technology. There _is_ a central server but that is just to glue all the handshakes together. The video/audio don't pass through it, it is all peer-to-peer, so scaling is more so on the client application and the available bandwidth. WebRTC dynamically changes the bitrate of the stream depending on connection though, so it should scale nicely.

I haven't tried a large conference on meet.jit.si yet though, only 1:1. But if there are performance issues it is likely the client application itself that needs performance tuning.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by [deleted] »

ISO-morphism wrote: post #66
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Conclusion: Friends preferred Hangouts. ... but why? Is it just a familiarity thing?

> familiarity That's the disheartening part. Most hadn't used Hangouts before, one person suggested it due to social distancing, ~1hr into Hangouts call as we're struggling to add another member I introduce Jitsi and paste a link into the group chat. Used for ~15 minutes, then dropped and the manual invite process for hangouts began again - organizer couldn't find the option to generate a sharable link to a Hangouts…

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Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by amrx101 »

joecot wrote: post #54
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/

After fumbling for 10 minutes, I still can't find how to share my screen.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by cheald »

enriquto wrote: post #65

It's very disheartening that when you try to connect with firefox, it says you should use chrome. This is a direct stab in the heart of the people who would favor it over zoom because it is free software.

The reason is that Firefox's simulcast support is iffy. It works fine, though (better than Hangouts did on Firefox, last I checked!)
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