Can I ask if you are using video conferencing in a business setting? When folks are trying to get stuff done in tough circumstances NO ONE has ANY patience for the home built / funky / privacy enhanced multi-click setup. Especially not the top executives now dialing in from home who aren't tech forward. IT doesn't want to trouble shoot things either - all of a sudden you have 1000+ folks video conferencing. I'd be in…
We're using webex at work but I've used half a dozen different tools so far with friends (no FOSS ones unfortunately) and they all work about as well.
I used to use webex more, but zoom just had had some incredible mindshare growth. Its literally the first suggestion it seems when there is a problem with a conference setup. Latency is also good on zoom which makes the audio side nicer in my experience.
Hackintosh are hard to build, by any reasonable definition, even for an average HN users. It's possible some people find that easy, but surely it is much harder than following an even medium difficulty tutorial.
Have you tried building one before? I built mine for the first time in February with 0 prior experience with such things and followed this guide: https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-...
If you're doing a config with a motherboard that's well used you can generally find the right configs to use. If you're using something not often used, you'll have trouble with the initial setup but once you get over that initial setup trouble in my experience everything will work and stay fine.
There are also lots of helpful people in the /r/hackintosh subreddit and discord if you run into troubles.
I was debating between building a hackintosh and buying the new MacBook pro and I can say 100% it was worth it.
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.
Ironically I'm using Mac over Linux because I want to use parallels to run a windows application that I must use. I tried using VMware for a while but it drove me insane that everytime I switched workspaces it would exit fullscreen.
It works. I hosted a meetup Friday night using it for the jackbox games.
how many people were in it? I'm trying to set something up for my family to play Jackbox with more than 10 people, google hangouts caps out at 10 and I don't really want to make everyone set up the zoom app since I'll have to do tech support for everyone. (disclaimer: I work at Jackbox, I'm in charge of the multiplayer servers)
It was about 6 people. We had issues with video and audio going through.
For the people who it was working for we didn't have a lot of issues. I'm not sure how the audio went through.(Btw this was on linux)
Is Jackbox still chicago based, or is that only the jellyvision side?
how many people were in it? I'm trying to set something up for my family to play Jackbox with more than 10 people, google hangouts caps out at 10 and I don't really want to make everyone set up the zoom app since I'll have to do tech support for everyone. (disclaimer: I work at Jackbox, I'm in charge of the multiplayer servers)
It was about 6 people. We had issues with video and audio going through. For the people who it was working for we didn't have a lot of issues. I'm not sure how the audio went through.(Btw this was on linux) Is Jackbox still chicago based, or is that only the jellyvision side?
yep, still in Chicago, Jackbox and Jellyvision both (although we're completely separate now).
There's this text at the bottom of https://jitsi.org/ page: Jitsi is proudly powered by an awesome open source community — and 8×8. 8x8 looks like a commercial product based on Jitsi: https://www.8x8.com/
8x8 is a huge VoIP company. McDonald’s uses them, so when you call McDonald’s, you are calling an 8x8 number. My firm used to use them. Their tech was rock solid but clunky for our stack so we switched to RingCentral. Quality isn’t as good, and I wonder often if we made a mistake.
I can hook your business and anyone remote up with free sip LCD screen desk phones, usually polycomm and unlimited long distance, SD-WAN managed data if needed business phone lines with app for all phones, desktop soft phone and video bridge from Gotomeeting for s fraction of what I was paying before. I just helped a 500 employees company get 500 new phones and cut their phone bill by over half. They were being charged $25 per line, $5 per phone lease and even being charged for ac power adapter... Made the switch and saving them thousands a month with an awesome world wide network that also includes pro gotomeeting accounts for each employee. They're less than half what they were paying and taxes also cheaper and no surprise fees... Message me or call me if you want a referral. I'm looking at jitsi as a way to help my daughter's connect with their teachers. I know zoom in what everyone is pushing now because it's just so easy but it also costs if you go over the minutes... Not much though. I wanted to offer free... Willing to hear any advice for integrating edX platform with jitsi
I'd be interested in seeing a P2P serverless option
We built one https://github.com/Qbix/Platform Just install it and video conferencing is one of the free features out of the box All you do is call Q.Streams.WebRTC.start()
What version of Firefox? What OS? Can confirm Firefox-dev on Linux has no working video.
Firefox 74.0 on Fedora works. AFAIK Firefox on GNU/Linux uses Gstreamer. Maybe you need to install gstreamer codec packages. Update: Firefox switched to FFmpeg and removed Gstreamer support some time ago. I have FFmpeg installed from rpmfusion, but I don't know if that's relevant to WebRTC and Jitsi.
Looks like 2020 is still not the "year of Linux on the desktop"
I'm curious... between Whereby and Jitsi and I assume other browser-based video solutions relying on WebRTC... ...how big is the barrier these days to building a "videoconferencing platform" supporting millions of people... that runs on a single server? Because if you need to do is build a pretty website that essentially just keeps track of meeting names and the names and IP addresses of participants... ...while each…
It doesn't scale well beyond a handful of people. You need *N bandwidth to send and receive, and without a thing called 'simulcast' (creating multiple, different quality stream simultaneously) which doesn't have good browser support the quality is defined by the lowest common denominator. A central server solves many, many issues that result in better quality. Jitsi itself barely works on Firefox and not at all on mo…
Re Jitsi: as far as I know, it does use a central server (videobridge) to reduce bandwidth usage with 3+ people.