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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.
I try to avoid Apple products. They're not worth the high price.
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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).
> BOSH client abstraction to convert that to http This still means the outside world can interact with the XMPP server, correct? If so then this is my concern - an XMPP server seems like a huge attack surface for the tiny bit of functionality Jitsi needs (I'm confident it's using less than 10% of the actual capabilities of the XMPP server, which means the rest of the code paths are mostly untested in this scenario an…
I wouldn't call it a tiny bit of functionality, MUC and SFU are the two main components of any video conferencing solution. XMPP helps provide MUC capability, Jicofo is the component you can see the implementation here https://github.com/jitsi/jicofo
BOSH does not allow all operations available via XMPP standard, there are restrictions possible, to maintain security.
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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.
documentation is the only downfall. I did the step by step for Ubuntu, had it going in no time.
Zoom also suffers from the non-intuitive problem so I was hoping for something a bit better on that front.
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.
I have actually considered running an instance of jitsi meet where I block out all non-chrome browsers. I don't like it, but if you pragmatically want something that works...
I really feel in this situation Mozilla should put all resources on fixing issues like these.
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It isn't just a gimmick, it is a legit feature when working from home and you don't want everyone to see your messy kitchen or bedroom. Sadly the chrome app version you have to use for ChromeOS doesn't support that feature anyway :(
FWIW Jitsi Meet just added "Blur my background" as a Beta feature. It works decently.
1) for whatever reason the stability dropped significantly during that period. The first 1-2 month, all was fine. After that, we constantly lost people (we are in NZ, EU, America's, Asia). Maybe the demand grew but they didn't scale the servers
2) sometimes we want to quickly share our editor/screen. Sadly the compression makes it impossible to read text (zoom correctly shows text)
3) we are often in countries with heavy censorship (UAE, China). Only zoom really works. Not even meet, slack-video, Skype works
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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