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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 wccrawford »

kybernetikos wrote: post #213
eagsalazar2 wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :(

I use Xsplit VCam in hangouts. There are a couple of other programs that do the same.

I used this the other day in the free version. The text over the screen was annoying, and the background effect was rather glitchy, but it was effective at hiding the mess I was too lazy to clean up.

However, as we were using it for work conference, I felt like I was adding some goofiness to the call and didn't like that. I ended up moving the camera to show less mess, and then eventually actually cleaned up my mess.

Plus, VCam only works in Windows.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by wccrawford »

marnett wrote: post #169
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…

> Has option to tile to equally size screens. Hangouts: Same. Are you describing Google Hangouts or Hangouts Meet by G Suite? There is no gallery view available for Google Hangouts (I've searched heavily for it in the past week, if it exists please enlighten me).

Meet has a setting that lets you choose how to see people. By default, it shows up to 4 people in equal tiles. After that, it puts the talker large and a few people in small tiles to the side.

But there's a layout option in the vertical dots menu that will let you force it back to 4 large tiles. You cannot specify how many tiles, though, it's always 4.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by jdiez17 »

leonroy wrote: post #207

Also 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 inst…

I also deployed a Jitsi instance and was surprised how easy it was. I have two questions for you:

1. Do you see high CPU usage when there are multiple conferences with a few participants happening simultaneously?

2. How did you set up conference recording? I know Jibri exists but the installation instructions are quite confusing. It seems you need a VM per conference you want to record. Is that the case?

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by cjwebb »

Whilst its great that people are iterating on existing products out there, I feel slightly sad that we just have a load of "alternatives" that don't play nicely with each other.

It would be much nicer if I could use FaceTime, whilst speaking to someone on Hangouts, plus someone else on Jitsi. Apart from discovery, what is stopping that? I'm assuming they all use basically the same underlying codecs, of course!

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by xtiansimon »

marnett wrote: post #169
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…

> Has option to tile to equally size screens. Hangouts: Same. Are you describing Google Hangouts or Hangouts Meet by G Suite? There is no gallery view available for Google Hangouts (I've searched heavily for it in the past week, if it exists please enlighten me).

> "tile to equally size screens"

I like to call this the "Hollywood Squares" view.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hollywood+squares

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by neves »

amikazmi wrote: post #149
neves wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've more than 500 simultaneous users.

When you write 500 simultaneous users, do you mean: 1. 500 users making multiple calls across our servers at the same time? 2. 500 users on a single call?

It's 1. Big groups in one conference didn't work as well.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by sidcool »

johnxie wrote: post #204
sidcool wrote: post #178

I 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...

Ok, but still, how does 8x8 gain earn?

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by justaj »

cjwebb wrote: post #234

Whilst its great that people are iterating on existing products out there, I feel slightly sad that we just have a load of "alternatives" that don't play nicely with each other. It would be much nicer if I could use FaceTime, whilst speaking to someone on Hangouts, plus someone else on Jitsi. Apart from discovery, what is stopping that? I'm assuming they all use basically the same underlying codecs, of course!

Matrix is trying to close that gap, so definitely something to take notice of.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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Post by distances »

rajlego wrote: post #191
tootie wrote: post #142

Earlier 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

I'm now first time using Mac due to my project. It works fine, but I do prefer Linux for development. Hackintosh probably makes sense if you're stuck on some Mac software though.
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