[lug] video conferencing [was LUG Digest, Vol 198, Issue 4 -- BLUG meeting on Zoom]

[Davide Del Vento]

Thanks for posting and making that one article free! Very interesting.

I had tried jitsi about 12 years ago and my experience had been not good
back then. But I gave it another chance today....

As the first comment on your article say the "canonical implementation" at
https://meet.jit.si/ it's quick and easy to make it work. In my single
tests it has a much lower latency than Google Hangout, Google Meet and
Zoom: I often tried them on two devices (in two different rooms, least you
lose you hearing to the sound looping...)
Jitsi was subsecond (still clearly audible and certainly not suitable for
music, but fast) the others were much slower with at least a couple of
seconds.


On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 8:39 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet-bldrlug at lwn.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:42:21 -0600
> Dru Whitledge <druw at oneimage.com> wrote:
>
> > Two names I've heard in the OSS arena for tele-conferencing are BBB
> > (Big Blue Button) with no downloaded client -- and Jitsi (
> > <https://jitsi.org/>https://Jitsi.org) that does use a downloaded
> > client (that you can hopefully trust -- as it's OSS).
>
> FWIW I've looked at both of those systems.  My impressions of Jitsi ended
> up here:
>
>         https://lwn.net/Articles/815751/
>
> The BigBlueButton article probably goes up later today.
>
> I currently have both systems running; I could make them available if LUG
> folks wanted to do a test drive.
>
> jon
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