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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 manquer »

Nextgrid wrote: post #109

I looked at Jitsi recently as I was thinking about self-hosting it (I have the bandwidth). My concerns: It seems to be based on XMPP and require an XMPP server. They offer a quick-start guide on configuring it however I am not sure how secure the default configuration is - I'm worried the quick start guide is about "get it working", not "make it secure" and I don't have XMPP knowledge nor the desire to learn a compli…

Jitsi uses XMPP(prosody) for MUC- basically coordination and control of sessions. XMPP is not exposed directly to the user, they use a BOSH client abstraction to convert that to http. It is actually good design and scales well. we have scaled the bridge to 500 plus concurrent sessions without lot of production tuning in non P2P mode (generally harder more resource intensive).

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Post by cheald »

monksy wrote: post #29
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!

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?

Folks using Brave (or who otherwise have video autoplay turned off) will need to allow autoplay for it to work correctly.

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Post by joecot »

amrx101 wrote: post #117
joecot wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

1) https://meet.jit.si

2) Start a channel

3) Bottom left there's a monitor icon to share your screen

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by jpeeler »

Nextgrid wrote: post #109

I looked at Jitsi recently as I was thinking about self-hosting it (I have the bandwidth). My concerns: It seems to be based on XMPP and require an XMPP server. They offer a quick-start guide on configuring it however I am not sure how secure the default configuration is - I'm worried the quick start guide is about "get it working", not "make it secure" and I don't have XMPP knowledge nor the desire to learn a compli…

The docker setup instructions at least seems safe in that regard:

https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet#design-considerat...

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by cheald »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #115
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 connect…

That's true for 1:1, but 1:2+ does go through the server.

It's scaled quite well for us, though.

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Post by Phillipharryt »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #70
Brakenshire wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slightly surprised by the response, Jitsi seems fine to me. Is it worse than Slack?

I've noticed that a lot of people have an aversion to software that doesn't have a name that's made from English word(s). This is possibly because the most common software out there has this property, and so people subconsciously associate it with quality (exceptions abound, of course, Samsung, Adobe, but I think that you need to reach a certain size to break free from the negative stigma in English-speaking countrie…

Adobe is a an English word though. More people are probably now aware of the software than the bricks, but it has a root there.

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Post by zemo »

monksy wrote: post #31
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.

It works. I hosted a meetup Friday night using it for the jackbox games.

how many people were in it? I'm trying to set something up for my family to play Jackbox with more than 10 people, google hangouts caps out at 10 and I don't really want to make everyone set up the zoom app since I'll have to do tech support for everyone. (disclaimer: I work at Jackbox, I'm in charge of the multiplayer servers)

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Post by gmueckl »

Nextgrid wrote: post #109

I looked at Jitsi recently as I was thinking about self-hosting it (I have the bandwidth). My concerns: It seems to be based on XMPP and require an XMPP server. They offer a quick-start guide on configuring it however I am not sure how secure the default configuration is - I'm worried the quick start guide is about "get it working", not "make it secure" and I don't have XMPP knowledge nor the desire to learn a compli…

Jitsi grew out of Google's Jingle extensions to the Jabber protocol for voice and video calls. And WebRTC call initiation requires at least a custom solution for exchanging SDP messages. So if you don't want to have an XMPP server in your setup, you need another server to handle all that signaling.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by cheald »

We switched from Slack to Mattermost internally, and while setting it up I noticed Jitsi integration offered. I've been really impressed by it, and we're working to move most meetings to it. Some teams are still using Zoom, but I don't think that's going to last very long!

My Brazilian Jiujitsu academy is trying it out, too, for virtual classes during shutdown. We just held the first today, and a bunch of non-technical parents were able to get things set up for their kids so that we could all attend a class together. It worked quite well. Given the price, it's a really impressive piece of software.

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Post by scarejunba »

lberk wrote: post #98
nicoburns wrote: post #85

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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...

What an absolute legend, that guy, making product decisions on stage hahaha. I absolutely love it.
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