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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
jitsi-meet-electron
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Ask HN: Any good open source video conferencing options?
Came across [Jitsi](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/tag/v2023.7.2) and [BigBlueButton](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton), does anyone have experience of running these or others in production?
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Ask HN: Are there any good open source screen sharing tools with remote control?
I spent hours last night trying to re-enable remote control on Jitsi's electron app with no luck[1]. Are there any other good open source tools out there for remote controlling a friends' computer screen on a call?
[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/877
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Jitsi: More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing
I love Jitsi Meet. My friends and I started using it during COVID and it's constantly improved. I host my own instance using docker and it's a breeze.
One issue that really prevents us replacing Mumble with it completely is lack of Push-to-talk [1], which is necessary for gaming etc. Do you know of anyone working on a native desktop app (open source or otherwise)?
[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/210
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Someone with the same problem?
Yes, it happens in other Electron apps too. I found this: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/442
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Enhanced noise suppression in Jitsi Meet
Jitsi Meet is used directly in the browser. Like at this address: https://meet.jit.si. You can also set up your own instance.
A desktop client also exists for Windows, macOS, Linux: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron - kind of not really advertised, provides remote desktop control.
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Does Jitsi Meet really support end-to-end encryption? More importantly, do its desktop versions really support it out of the box?
You can turn on end-to-end encryption (e2ee) as long as you are using Jitsi Meet on a browser with support for insertable streams. Currently this means any browser based on Chromium 83 and above, including Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Brave and Opera. You may also use our Electron client, which supports it out of the box.
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What's the advantage of Wayland?
Support is there, but not enabled for some reason. This issue on Jitsi application (also using Electron which is Chrome stuff) shows the location of real problem.
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is there any opensource "remote assistance" project ?
You will need a client. Browsers typically cannot type in other apps. Something that's free, open source, and runs on all platforms is Jitsi Meet. If you install the client, you'll have an option for "Remote control". I personally like that I'm in a call with the other person at the same time.
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Jitsi Meet laptop apps
We focus on the apps on mobile, on desktop we recommend the browser, but we also have an Electron app: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron
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]
Remotely - A remote control and remote scripting solution, built with .NET 8, Blazor, and SignalR.
peer-calls - Group peer to peer video calls for everyone written in Go and TypeScript
Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
ion - Real-Distributed RTC System by pure Go and Flutter
mirotalk - 🚀 WebRTC - P2P - Simple, Secure, Fast Real-Time Video Conferences Up to 4k and 60fps, compatible with all browsers and platforms.
kratos - Your ultimate Go microservices framework for the cloud-native era.
rustdesk - An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.
protocol - LiveKit protocol. Protobuf definitions for LiveKit's signaling protocol
p2p - 🖥️ P2P Remote Desktop - Portable, No Configuration or Installation Needed.
Ether1 - Official Go implementation of The Etho Protocol
wayland-discord-push-to-talk - A workaround to mimic the push-to-talk functionality of Discord on Wayland