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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 severine »

pimterry wrote: post #248

An interesting anecdote: they're installing Jitsi Meet in all Catalan prisons as we speak, as the go-to option now that visitors are no longer allowed, installed on the existing computers (i.e. prison libraries). They're planning to have Whatsapp setup too as a secondary option, because it's the option with widest reach, but that requires buying a bunch of new mobile phones. More details (in Spanish): https://elpais.…

Thanks for the info.

An interesting related question would be what software are the different national cabinets, states presidencies and other high ranking officials etc using in their daily conferences.

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Post by ronjouch »

Linux HNers, is there any video-conferencing software that is hardware-accelerated for us Linux users?

Everything I tried (Jitsi on Firefox or Chrome, Skype, Hangouts/Meet, Zoom, Slack) consumes a full CPU all of the time (a.k.a. all no hardware acceleration), making fans spin and slowing down other work.

Advice? I'm using Arch Linux & Xorg on a recent Thinkpad with Intel CPU & GPU, and the packages mentioned by the Intel section of https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_accelera... (intel-media-driver, libva-intel-driver, linux-firmware) are installed.

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Post by leppr »

The mobile application needs some work. The essential and basic operations of creating a room[1] and sharing a link to that room[2] are confusing. Other than that, the video and sound quality were great.

[1]: There's no "Go" button and no automatically generated room name like on the web app.

[2]: The menu option is hidden two layers deep and is named non-descriptively "Room information".

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

jacurtis wrote: post #168
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 :(

Confirming that it isn’t a gimmick. I have been working on distributed WFH Teams for the past 5 years now (long before COVID19) and this has been a consistent point of embarrassment and/or trouble with video conferencing. I can’t begin to tell you how many times we have had people that need extra time to prepare for a meeting because of the background. As a manager, I have had lots of personal conversations with empl…

Zoom refuses to allow virtual backgrounds without green screens, on non-Intel CPUs. I have a laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 3700U CPU supporting AVX2 I think, but Zoom won't allow me to turn that feature on. I mentioned this in a chat room and people speculated Zoom was paid off by Intel.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503

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Post by christefano »

JeremyNT wrote: post #146
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…

I too balked at the stack required to self host jitsi, it felt overly complicated for personal use. But given the interest in video chat now and the sorry state of affairs of the ecosystem, I gave it another go this week. It still seems convoluted, but they provide a docker compose file to deal with all of those complexities. I used it and set a server up using docker compose within a few minutes. As far as I can tel…

You could use LDAP, but really the default configuration allows for Prosody commands, e.g. prosodyctl adduser user@example.com

What I did was set up a vanilla Jitsi Meet instance (on DigitalOcean) and then create a shared user / pass per room share with my team. Feel free to message me if you have any questions.

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Post by tootie »

alharith wrote: post #166
tootie wrote: post #142

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I try to avoid Apple products. They're not worth the high price.

Depends on how you are defining "worth" here. They are the only devices "worth" their price as evidenced by how well they hold their value and how much consumers are willing to pay for them. They are not "worth" the high price if you are valuing the internals (what GPU, processor, memory, HD you get).

I've ended up with multiple iPads over the years despite my best efforts. They definitely do stop working after a while. I've also noticed MacBooks get burning hot doing a video conference for more than 15 minutes. And I'm not a hardcore gamer, but my kids play Minecraft and it's fine by glitchy.

Compared to the Acer I bough for $700 with a basic Nvidia card and upgradeable memory that can handle everything I throw at it. My last Acer ran fine for almost 6 years but I dropped it one too many times.

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Post by Quelklef »

claudeganon wrote: post #244
eisa01 wrote: post #199

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Zoom requires a quad core processor for the virtual backgrounds, so I’m not sure it is any worse?

I don’t really like Zoom, but I was on a call the other day with 3 other people calling from phones and iPads, all using virtual backgrounds. You don’t need beefy specs to use the feature.

Probably the other poster meant it requires a lot of CPU for you to have a virtual background, not for other people.

It wouldn't make sense for other people using the feature to take any more processing power--I assume the video is encoded and processed the same either way.

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Post by gnicholas »

Angostura wrote: post #215
gnicholas wrote: post #173

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That blur looks great. Too bad I have literally never been able to successfully join a Teams call. Every single time we have to fall back to telephone.

That is odd. A large school I work with in the UK rolled out Teams as an emery year measure yesterday. Everyone was happily doing group video chats, no problem.

I think it works fine for people who have accounts set up. But if you get invited to a Teams (or Skype for Business) meeting, you are often required to log in with an account. This is very different from Zoom, which you can participate in without an account.

I have also been sent in infinite loops of download installer, install, now go download installer again.

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