What is their(Jitsi's) business model if it is free? How do they keep themselves up?
Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
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Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#152I'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 ;).
Honestly the backgrounds are goofy and non-essential, but it's been a huge positive icebreaker for the adjustment to all online meetings.
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#153What is their(Jitsi's) business model if it is free? How do they keep themselves up?
Exactly my question. The old adage "if you're not paying for it then you're the product" makes me worried to try Jitsi, unless they come out clean about their business model.
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#154The 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…
Super reliable. Our rather large company was all Skype all the time, but people started doing Zoom because it worked all the time. Now we're almost fully Zoom.
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#155Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#156I'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.
How do they deal with their friends or relatives that do not use iPhones?
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#157I 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…
Jitsi meet is not end-to-end encrypted [1]. Rather, it is encrypted with TLS between the client and the server, which doesn’t provide the same security/privacy benefit at all. The website says it’s “fully encrypted,” which I think is misleading. [1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/README.md#se... Edit: WebRTC does not support end-to-end encryption for multiple peers. This means it’s impossible for any…
Signaling is indeed over HTTPS and media is encrypted with DTLS-SRTP.
No browsers today support end-to-end encryption for multiparty calls.
The advantage that Jitsi offers there is that you can stand it up on your own server in just a few minutes and get protection that is equivalent to end-to-end encryption.
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#158We 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 was wondering what would be the requirement for self-hosting Jitsi - in terms of server resources - bandwidth, CPU etc? Is the Video/VOIP transmitted client to client or does it get routed via the server? Thanks.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ;).
Honestly the backgrounds are goofy and non-essential, but it's been a huge positive icebreaker for the adjustment to all online meetings.
Yup, just a resource drain
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#160I'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…
if there is an NAT problem, why dont you add IPv6 support? It will solve that problem to at least some users.
Your site is currently down, but it does does not show a AAAA record for video.etherpad.org