The renovated videobridge will soon get into stable packages: https://community.jitsi.org/t/jvb-2-considered-stable/24314
More about the renovation effort: https://jitsi.org/news/jvb-2-0-preparing-our-video-router-fo...
Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
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Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#202I am afraid that the free model of their service will not work very well if tens of thousands of teams start to use this now. It is easier to trust the known brands and organizations that also charges a bit when you use their system a lot.
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#203I deployed it using the docker compose Config for my university group in our rancher cluster: https://github.com/jitsi-mee/docker-jitsi-meet We now use it for most meetings, works very well so far, several sessions in parallel with several dozen people at the same time (but mostly only using audio). Screen sharing works fine as well. We made the experience that they are unfortunately right about requiring chrome (chr…
It seems to work in Firefox despite the browser warning. What do you use for authentication? Do you have an existing ldap server? I spooled up a server for neighbors and family to use on my personal vps and the user account management promises to be problematic using the internal auth mechanism.
Yes, I connected our existing ldap for moderators and allow guests.
So one authenticated user is required per session and the rest can be anyone.
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#204I am sorry if this is already answered, but what is the revenue model and how do they afford a network intensive tool like video conferencing? BTW, I loved it.
8x8 acquired Jitsi from Atlassian some time ago, see https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/29/atlassian-sells-jitsi-an-o...
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#205I deployed it using the docker compose Config for my university group in our rancher cluster: https://github.com/jitsi-mee/docker-jitsi-meet We now use it for most meetings, works very well so far, several sessions in parallel with several dozen people at the same time (but mostly only using audio). Screen sharing works fine as well. We made the experience that they are unfortunately right about requiring chrome (chr…
It seems to work in Firefox despite the browser warning. What do you use for authentication? Do you have an existing ldap server? I spooled up a server for neighbors and family to use on my personal vps and the user account management promises to be problematic using the internal auth mechanism.
Several other comments have touched on this, but firefox unfortunately while it seems to work creates issues, even for the other participants. It just seems a lot less stable as soon as several firefox clients connect.
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#206How well does Jitsi scale? Can it handle a group of say 15 or so participants on a variety of devices?
I've been doing sessions with 20 participants without any problem.
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#207Also easy to skin and deploy - we setup a custom branded instance for our customers to use during the pandemic within a couple of days:
https://meet.brring.com/
It’s rather incredible what it can do:
* SIP gateway to support inbound telephony dial in
* Meeting recording
* Auto scaling of the video bridges to dynamically handle load
* Native iOS, Android and even Apple Watch clients
All free, all open source. The install videos are also really good indeed: https://jitsi.org/news/tag/tutorial/
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
I try to avoid Apple products. They're not worth the high price.
hackintosh's aren't all that hard to build
Hackintosh are hard to build, by any reasonable definition, even for an average HN users. It's possible some people find that easy, but surely it is much harder than following an even medium difficulty tutorial.
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#209I'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…
Hosting cost is the biggest barrier to building a video conferencing solution which scales to millions of users. We setup a Jitsi meet instance and with just 6 parties it pegged a core on the server CPU at 50%.
Admittedly one of the users was on Firefox which causes CPU load to spike with Jitsi but either way video conferencing is bandwidth and processor intensive.
Otherwise the WebRTC technology is stable and works well across browsers - especially for audio. Just scaling it and getting folks to pay for it so it’s economically feasible to host is another thing.
Jitsi have some good videos about autoscaling/load balancing Jitsi Meet here: https://jitsi.org/news/tag/tutorial/
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#210I think it shows the sheer incompetence of Google product management that they managed to lose the strong hold Gtalk had. Gtalk worked. People liked it. Hangouts too worked well. I used hangouts in browser in 2013 and it worked very well.
Somehow google decided to replace hangouts with allo and duo, and then deprecated allo, and moved to RCS. I never understand how such decisions get made. Do they think customers have infinite loyalty and will move to any new product launched by the company. A lot of people I know used hangouts. Very few use Duo.