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A group of friends were and still are evaluating video conferencing for small groups (<6 people). Here's what we've tried so far: Nextcloud: I'm running a nex

A group of friends were and still are evaluating video conferencing for small groups (<6 people). Here's what we've tried so far: Nextcloud: I'm running a nextcloud instance since ~2 years (it's awesome) and tried nextcloud talk several times, though for some reason we could not get audio and or video to work. Just this week we tried jitsi because it's open source and can be self-hosted. Unfortunately while it worked in principle jitsi uses large amounts of cpu cycles when running in the browser and additionally latency and video quality was an issue. For us the best option as of now is still https://whereby.com https://whereby.com which works well regarding stability, audio/video quality and latency, though it's not self-hosted. I'm not affiliated in any way with them, I just like their product. I'd love nextcloud talk to work, and I'm very curious about other solutions I'm not aware of - self-hosted and otherwise. Edit: After reviewing my nextcloud talk setup I saw that I didn't set up a TURN server which might be the reason it's not working. So it's not nextcloud, but incomplete setup.

CrankyBear 7y ago
Much as I like Nextcloud, Nextcloud Talk doesn't really scale worth a darn. I'd use it for no more than a dozen or two people. For even a medium-sized business it's way too little.
flas9sd 7y ago
I use nextcloud talk with installed coturn (STUN/TURN) to regularly connect with friends. But it is mostly one-on-one, no experience with +4 people. Sometimes there is the issue for browsers to pickup the mic but this will get sorted out. I recommend it. Before we used appear.in (now whereby.com). For work face-to-face is nice and human, but screensharing+audio is where the productivity really is. I think mumble would be fine too if it can be transport encrypted.
punarinta 7y ago
Regarding Whereby, I used them actively until they became paid for groups bigger than four and introduced sign-up. Then I decided to build my own free solution porting many features in a form of plugins, to keep the main tool light and fast. You can check it out if interested: https://xroom.app https://xroom.app

CrankyBear 7y ago

Much as I like Nextcloud, Nextcloud Talk doesn't really scale worth a darn. I'd use it for no more than a dozen or two people. For even a medium-sized business it's way too little.

flas9sd 7y ago

I use nextcloud talk with installed coturn (STUN/TURN) to regularly connect with friends. But it is mostly one-on-one, no experience with +4 people. Sometimes there is the issue for browsers to pickup the mic but this will get sorted out. I recommend it. Before we used appear.in (now whereby.com). For work face-to-face is nice and human, but screensharing+audio is where the productivity really is. I think mumble would be fine too if it can be transport encrypted.

punarinta 7y ago

Regarding Whereby, I used them actively until they became paid for groups bigger than four and introduced sign-up. Then I decided to build my own free solution porting many features in a form of plugins, to keep the main tool light and fast. You can check it out if interested: https://xroom.app https://xroom.app