Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
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Re: Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
#2I looked into free, native videoconferencing solutions several months ago because I wanted to run conferences on slower hardware. Most webrtc solutions ran too slow for my requirements. Jami worked really well, I could even compile it for my Raspberry pi and it ran with solid quality there. I’m very happy that this exists as open source. Big kudos to the developers.
Re: Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
#3How well do these peer-to-peer videoconferencing solutions scale with the number of call participants?
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#4How well do these peer-to-peer videoconferencing solutions scale with the number of call participants?
How well does the quality of a videoconference scale with the number of call participants?
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#5How can there be an iOS app? I read that Apple doesn’t allow GPL apps in their store.
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#6How well do these peer-to-peer videoconferencing solutions scale with the number of call participants?
How well does the quality of a videoconference scale with the number of call participants?
That's not a comparable question. Peer-to-peer bandwidth requirements for a single user increases linearly with the number of participants while a client-server model is essentially flat regardless of the number of participants.
Re: Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
How well does the quality of a videoconference scale with the number of call participants?
That's not a comparable question. Peer-to-peer bandwidth requirements for a single user increases linearly with the number of participants while a client-server model is essentially flat regardless of the number of participants.
Well, both questions question the quality of videoconferences in regard to the number of participants, so I would say the questions are very comparable.
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#8Very cool thinking here - especially like the thought and implementation of the “Rendezvous Points”.
I can see this being really useful for many different types of chats and groups.
I am needing to replace an old chat system soon, and may kick the tires with pushing this to some users for testing, but first:
Is the ip addy of the users sending and receiving - so it's easily discoverable or is it possible to make this use an intermediary server like a STUN/TURN kind of thing?
Sadly with some of our members, they will do anything to snatch another user's ip addy and use that for blackmail and hacking - so we need to make sure we can hide it.
Moderation - is there an admin level for users that we can give access to see other participants ip addys and option to kick / ban / block ip addy, certain usernames, ip subnets, CIDR notation, ASNs / etc. ?
Some problematice people have caused us to ban and block over a few million ip addys to slow down their returning to troll.. if we can't easily see and block ips we won't be able to use it for our public groups.
But I can see how this is really cool for small groups that know and trust each other, really like the thoughts of use going here in this post.
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#9This seems like a nice project. I was wondering about the backstory of the name Jami, which I associate with a great fifteenth-century Persian poet (جامی)—really one of the towering figures in the millennium-long tradition of classical Persian poetry.[0] But according to the project website,[1] they took the name from a Swahili word for "community,"[2] which is in turn derived from Arabic (جميع or perhaps جامع). Sorry to go off on a tangent!
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami [1]: https://jami.net/help/ [2]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jamii
Re: Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
#10How can there be an iOS app? I read that Apple doesn’t allow GPL apps in their store.
Just because a piece of code is licensed under GPL doesn’t mean that the copyright owner(s) can’t license the code under another license, aka the license to Apple. The issue comes when an entity is using GPL-ed code that they don’t also own the copyright to.