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> find another solution Have you tried Jitsi?
by hanniabu 6y ago
> find another solution
Have you tried Jitsi?
- einpoklum 6y agoIt's a bit difficult to understand what exactly that means. There's Jitsi Meet, Jitsi Desktop, there's a browser extension, a server-which-isn't-just-a-server etc. It's a bit confusing.
- compuguy 6y agoI think @hanniabu is referring to Jitsi Meet in this case...
- nthnclrk 6y agoWhy is it difficult? Is there not enough context given the conversation is specifically focused on video conference software. One could say the same of Zoom... There's Zoom Meetings Client, Zoom Rooms, a desktop app, mobile app, Outlook Plug-in, Browser extension, etc.
- ViViDboarder 6y agoI think you’re overstating the complexity a bit. When people mention Zoom I don’t fuss over whether it’s desktop, web (do they even offer it?), mobile, or whatever.
- aendruk 6y ago> do they even offer it? Just to answer this—technically yes, but they use dark patterns to dissuade people from learning about it.
- paulgb 6y agoI've wanted to like Jitsi, but the quality difference with Zoom is noticeable. Same with Google Meet and anything I've seen that uses WebRTC. They remind me of RealPlayer back in the early 2000s in terms of blockyness. I would love to know about any Zoom competitors, free or paid, with comparable quality.
- j45 6y agoWire.com may be of interest to you. I have been checking out a few as well.
- frabbit 6y agoJitsi Meet works fine as long as you do not use Firefox. W.r.t. the general meme about WebRTC, this is old (2018) and explicitly does not claim to be anything other than suggestive: https://jitsi.org/blog/a-simple-congestion-test-for-zoom/ https://jitsi.org/blog/a-simple-congestion-test-for-zoom/
- frabbit 6y agoAnd this is better: https://bloggeek.me/when-will-zoom-use-webrtc/ https://bloggeek.me/when-will-zoom-use-webrtc/
- paulgb 6y ago> Jitsi Meet works fine as long as you do not use Firefox. That's the fix I needed, cheers! For some reason it doesn't impact the Google Meet quality for me but now Jitsi looks great.
- setgree 6y agoI had some issues with Jitsi on Brave but it worked fine on Chrome
- nix23 6y agoSorry, works on my Firefox quite ~well BUT uses 3 time's more CPU...so there's that ;)
- nix23 6y agoIf you have your own jitsy server, you can define the max quality up to 1080p i think, the free jitsy service/server has probably really low 'max' video quality. BigBlueButton is also interesting, but it's more like a Schooling-tool...but also without a client (aka just need a browser)
- mstade 6y agoJitsi is great! If they can figure out a good webinar solution it could be an absolute killer. As it stands, it's (in my opinion) really just useful for small scale interactive meetings at this point, not 100+ participant events. It's really great as a face-to-face solution though, where Zoom and many others are actually kind of overkill.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoBigBlueButton may be better for that scale. It's interesting this desire for a one size fits all video conference.
- nix23 6y agoI cant imagine being productive with 100+ peoples in a video-conference (not even real ones), are you making raves/partys over Jitsy?
- mstade 6y agoI should've made it clear when I say "events" I mean more webinar style events. 100+ participant meetings where everyone is an equal participant isn't useful, but that sort of thing isn't uncommon if you're holding all hands calls or annual shareholder meetings etc.
- nix23 6y agoYeah but then a streaming solution with a separate voting/chat/messaging solution is the way to go.
- mstade 6y agoWell, no – not if you still need audience participation with video and/or audio. Things like annual/quarterly meetings and such where people have a right to speak etc. It's really not that different from a typical video conference, just that the moderator has controls to mute/unmute people and participants can't unmute themselves. Polling/voting/chat features I reckon are secondary I reckon.