[Nottingham] [Misc] Peer-peer and group video conferencing

[VM]

I support installing Jitsi. I've heard there is a monster server in your rack waiting to be used. ;) There was even a quick tutorial in the latest Linux Format.

Signal won't work for groups and in my experience was more power hungry than Jitsi.
BigBlueButton is more fit for classroom.
Jami is p2p so people with low bandwidth could experience congestion. As I understand it Jitsi videobridge is quite useful in such use cases.
Haven't tried Nextcloud Talk. I guess it requires a separate dedicated server.

P.S. problems could be avoided by using the official jitsi appimage, which is a packaged  electron application.

On October 10, 2020 10:18:33 PM UTC, Martin via Nottingham <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>Folks,
>
>We seem to have very good success with Jitsi...
>
>(With the one exception of my example with the latest bleeding edge
>version of Firefox or a wobbly ISP on the night...)
>
>
>Just to try some alternatives... Any recommendations?
>
>Any ideas for hosting our own even??!
>
>
>We /could/ host Jitsi. Looking at that the best way looks to be via
>Docker...
>
>And then also, has anyone any experience of:
>
>
>
>Signal
>(peer-peer only, no group conferencing)
>
>
>p2p.chat
>(peer-peer, ok for group conference or too soon bandwidth limited?)
>
>
>Nextcloud Talk
>
>
>BigBlueButton
>
>
>Jami
>
>
>???
>
>Cheers,
>Martin
>
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