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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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jitsi has dedicated apps for mobile https://jitsi.org/downloads/

Right. But I don’t want to have to tell a client to download an app. I’d rather they just go to a url like they do on an iPad. Not sure what the difference in browsers is between them, but I can’t imagine it’s much.

How many people do you know who would be competent enough to use a teleconferencing web app?

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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> like most videoconferencing Well, if there's only 2, maybe 3 of you – anything beyond that is going to use a server to host the call for reliability.

> Well, if there's only 2, maybe 3 of you... Do you mean for more than 3 - the call/video is routed through the server and would consume server bandwidth? If so how is jitsi paying for all this if it is free?

I don't know how they're paying but it's absolutely 100% routed through a server.

Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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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?

1. Yes, it has pretty high CPU usage unfortunately and that’s despite the attempts of Jitsi to offload h264 encoding onto the clients. You could in theory lock it to standard definition video though which would reduce CPU usage a lot.

2. We did not on this instance but we did using their Docker instance which was very straightforward to setup: https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet#jitsi-broadcastin...

I don’t believe it needs a VM per conference - maybe a ffmpeg process per instance?

Here's the Jitsi architecture which best I can tell shows JIBRI (recording part) as a separate, single container: https://i.imgur.com/oDSRzF4.png

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