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JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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If I understand correctly this is for jitsi meet. Is a hosted version of the jitsi SFU standalone also planned?

Hey there! Jitsi dev here. What do you have in mind? Feel free to contact us at: jaastech@8x8.com

Something with an API similar to Vonage/Tokbox or Twilio video.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Looking for pricing, I get to this page: https://www.8x8.com/products/apis/video >We're charging on a Monthly Active User (MAU) >Pricing starts at $0.35/MAU and decreases based on volume. >An MAU is defined as a unique user who attended at least one meeting, with at least one other user, in the same month. To determine a unique user, we store an identifier on the device's local storage, and that will remain the same…

That’s way too expensive. My $80/month server bill can support millions of users per month but would only get me Edit: my guess is I misunderstood who they are targeting with this. Thought they were targeting developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Does anybody know a video conferencing tool with low CPU usage while screen sharing? All the tools I've tried, including Jitsi, slow down my computer to a crawl.

I’ve had similar issues and have not found a tool that cooperated better. Here are a few things that helped though: - App police (mac app) to reduce cpu allocation for any given app - unplug external display monitor during video calls - turn off any video enhancing settings in app (mirror video, enhanced light, etc) as well as virtual background or background blur It’s crazy that I’m 2021 we don’t have video calling…

Thanks for your response! Unfortunately I'm already doing all those things.

Agreed, I think it's insane. How come there isn't a single App out there that works well for such a key technology? I guess it's a really hard problem to solve.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Congrats this seems like a very needed product! We tried Jitsi for our web app (1), but ultimately settled on Daily.co for it's pricing and easy developer experience. How does JaaS stability compare to Jitsi? Any one here chose Jitsi over Daily? 1. https://codingrooms.com/

This is great since selfhosted jitsi somehow developed into an IT support nightmare for us. Would be awesome to hear how they are doing the scaling. Our IT only offers jitsi only for max 10 ppl in a room which keeps us from using it at least in 50% of the cases. Also some users are reporting problems, so it would really be great to see a supported desktop app for all relevant platforms for those that struggle to get…

> Would be awesome to hear how they are doing the scaling.

Shameless plug: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/jitsi_scaling/

> so it would really be great to see a supported desktop app for all relevant platforms

We have an Electron based app: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron

> Also native performance background effects

This is in the works, we have to be able to share some news soon!

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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CoScreen, an app sharing and pair programming tool [1] runs on Jitsi / JaaS. I work on that project. We're really happy with the service since a reliable and fast global infrastructure is key for what we offer. [1] https://www.coscreen.co

Is it only available for MacOS? When I go to the download page, it only shows me download for MacOS.

Yeah, we're are currently working on Windows, it's almost ready. Expect a first beta in a few weeks.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Looking for pricing, I get to this page: https://www.8x8.com/products/apis/video >We're charging on a Monthly Active User (MAU) >Pricing starts at $0.35/MAU and decreases based on volume. >An MAU is defined as a unique user who attended at least one meeting, with at least one other user, in the same month. To determine a unique user, we store an identifier on the device's local storage, and that will remain the same…

That’s way too expensive. My $80/month server bill can support millions of users per month but would only get me Edit: my guess is I misunderstood who they are targeting with this. Thought they were targeting developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.

Millions of users per month doing video conferencing?

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Congrats this seems like a very needed product! We tried Jitsi for our web app (1), but ultimately settled on Daily.co for it's pricing and easy developer experience. How does JaaS stability compare to Jitsi? Any one here chose Jitsi over Daily? 1. https://codingrooms.com/

This is great since selfhosted jitsi somehow developed into an IT support nightmare for us. Would be awesome to hear how they are doing the scaling. Our IT only offers jitsi only for max 10 ppl in a room which keeps us from using it at least in 50% of the cases. Also some users are reporting problems, so it would really be great to see a supported desktop app for all relevant platforms for those that struggle to get…

BigBlueButton is more suitable for larger conferences.
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