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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, differen
by ricardobeat 7y ago
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 mobile devices (without their app).
- Naac 7y agoOn Linux at least, it simply does not work on Firefox. Something with webrtc, but I can't get video to work. Basically, it's a known issue [0] and the response is that maybe it'll get fixed eventually :( [0] https://community.jitsi.org/t/browser-support-warning-when-using-the-latest-firefox-71-0-version-on-meet-jit-si/21180 https://community.jitsi.org/t/browser-support-warning-when-u... EDIT: It seems firefox-stable works OK.
- kovach 7y agoIt actually works fine on Android browsers (checked in FF and Chrome), you just have to load the page in Desktop mode so that it stops pushing the apps to you. Hopefully they'll reconsider their decision if they want it to get popular...
- perennate 7y agoRe Jitsi: as far as I know, it does use a central server (videobridge) to reduce bandwidth usage with 3+ people.