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Anyone know of a good, open source, cross-platform video conferencing application?

• 22c 7y ago
  Not exactly what you asked for, but I have had success with pair programming using VS Code Live Share[1] and Mumble for VoIP[2]. I don't think video is particularly important when you're both seeing the same screen and able to talk about it. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/use/vscode https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/use/... [2] https://www.mumble.info https://www.mumble.info
  • iudqnolq 7y ago
    I've been trying this recently, but find it hard to debug issues because I can't see the output of the program being run or use a debugger on it. We got to the point of sending Dropbox links to screenshots of chrome with the devtools console open, which seems absurd. Maybe chrome remote debugging could help? Maybe I'm just not good at writing code correctly the first time, but when I program I usually fix at least one error per compile/run. So I have trouble pair programming when eg the other person likes to write larger chunks of code before running/testing.
    • iudqnolq 7y ago
      Edit: Completely missed that VS Live Share has a solution for this. Amending my complaint to be about the discoverability of the UX
• cobbzilla 7y ago
  Jitsi looks interesting: https://jitsi.org https://jitsi.org I've never tried it out, but I am very tempted. Looks pretty clean and modern, with a pure JavaScript WebRTC client, in addition to the usual native apps.