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ion-sfu
- Jitsi: More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing
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Ask HN: Why is there no enterprise grade open-source zoom alternative?
There's nothing particularly difficult on the server side — a quality SFU should be capable to handle on the order of 400 video flows per core, and there are quite a few high-quality free software SFUs available (Janus, Jitsi, ion-sfu, livekit, Galene). To give some perspective: we're using Galene for lectures, and our single-CPU server uses around 40% CPU usage in a room with 120 students (who keep their cameras switched off during the lecture, of course, and only occasionally switch them on to ask questions).
As the grandparent mentioned, the problem is the client side. Since there is no standard videoconferencing protocol, every free software project needs to develop their own clients. And it's difficult for a free software project to have the manpower and expertise to develop quality clients for the web, Android and iOS, so in effect what we currently have are mostly half-baked web clients.
There is some hope, though. The IETF have been working on standard protocols for ingress (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/wish/), and if their protocols get deployed, you'll be able to use the same streaming software (think OBS) or IP camera with multiple distinct videoconferencing servers. An interoperable interactive videoconferencing protocol is nowhere near, but as more people understand videoconferencing technology, there is some hope that people will get together and start working on multi-protocol clients (remember Pidgin?).
Full disclosure: I'm the author of Galene (https://galene.org), and I've been actively participating in the Pion community (https://github.com/pion/webrtc) and collaborating with the authors of ion-sfu (https://github.com/pion/ion-sfu) and LiveKit (https://github.com/livekit).
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How to build ion-sfu's pub-from-disk example?
go get: module github.com/pion/ion-sfu@upgrade found (v1.10.8), but does not contain package github.com/pion/ion-sfu/cmd/server/grpc/proto
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LiveKit – open-source infrastructure for real time audio and video
Really appreciate that they have a Protocol project, really helps quickly get a sense of what's under the hood. It's just a bunch of protobuf messages, but that's a super helpful reference, and nice to not have it embedded in one of the various other projects: https://github.com/livekit/protocol
Notably using the well known extremely well reputed super battle hardened Pion sfu, ion: https://github.com/pion/ion-sfu
galene
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livekit-server VS galene - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 28 Mar 2024
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Show HN: New Jitsi WebRTC Alternative: ChatGPT, File Transfer, Docker
I would like to recommend Galene: https://github.com/jech/galene
Runs in my raspberry pi, a single small executable, like in the old good times.
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Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out
> Do you happen to know of others by any chance.
There's Galene, <https://galene.org>. It's easy to deploy, uses minimal server resources, and the server is pretty solid. The client interface is still a little awkward, though. (Full disclosure, I'm the main author.)
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Best voice and video chat?
galene - basically selfhosted zoom/jitsi
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Ask HN: FFmpeg real-time desktop streaming
What latency are you trying to do? Will the professor being communicating with the students while doing this? Will the students all have the same bandwidth, or will you want multiple renditions (low, med, high quality levels)?
If you want AV1 you will not be able to use RTMP. The protocol is orphaned/deprecated, so avoid if possible!
If I was building it this is what I would do, and my reasoning.
* For capture + encoding I would use OBS. You will want to use something that is easy for users to install configure. Professors will also have lots of custom requirements when it comes to layout etc... it will be tempting to do a ffmpeg command directly, but it will fall apart quick I believe.
* To get AV1 out of OBS I would use FFMPEG output. I would have it send RTP. RTP is used to carry video in a sub-second manner. This is the same protocol that WebRTC uses. You know have AV1 + low latency.
* Then for users to watch I would use WebRTC. That will allow them to watch in their web browser. Conceptually it will be like this https://github.com/pion/webrtc/tree/master/examples/rtp-to-w... this takes the RTP packets and puts them in the browser.
Lots of great projects exist that you could use for 'RTP -> WebRTC' like https://galene.org/ and https://livekit.io/ I would suggest checking them all out!
If you have more questions/want to talk to people in the video space always happy to chat on https://pion.ly/slack :)
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Voice/Video call for Iranians
galene
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Self-hosted chat app with chat/video?
The most lightweight all-inclusive central solution for video conferences I know is Galene. It runs in under 200 MB RAM.
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What are good self-hosted WebRTC video solutions today?
Even though the default UI is extremely simplistic, I very much like galene. It bundles all the components you need in a single binary. Even a TURN server so you don't have to fiddle with coturn. Not to mention that it's very resource efficient.
- Galène. FOSS Videoconference Server
- Galène Videoconference Server
What are some alternatives?
livekit-server - Scalable, high-performance WebRTC SFU. SDKs in JavaScript, React, React Native, Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, Unity/C#, Go, Ruby and Node. [Moved to: https://github.com/livekit/livekit]
Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
peer-calls - Group peer to peer video calls for everyone written in Go and TypeScript
janus-gateway - Janus WebRTC Server
ion - Real-Distributed RTC System by pure Go and Flutter
rtp - A Go implementation of RTP
kratos - Your ultimate Go microservices framework for the cloud-native era.
galene_ynh - Galène package for YunoHost
protocol - LiveKit protocol. Protobuf definitions for LiveKit's signaling protocol
mirotalk - 🚀 WebRTC - P2P - Simple, Secure, Fast Real-Time Video Conferences Up to 4k and 60fps, compatible with all browsers and platforms.
Ether1 - Official Go implementation of The Etho Protocol
wirow-server - A full featured self-hosted video web-conferencing platform.