pyrite VS azure-ubuntu-jitsi

For more interesting related projects, you may also want to checkout https://github.com/pion/awesome-pion

I'm fiddling now and then on an alternative conferencing frontend(Pyrite - https://github.com/garage44/pyrite) for Galene(https://galene.org), which is a SFU that uses Pion.

It would really help if the author had a list of "features" on the github project. It is a bit difficult to figure out what exact functionality the project supports.

* https://github.com/garage44/pyrite/

Teams only show 4 streams at a time on Linux, the video/audio quality is mediocre and the video quality in the webclient is worse than the one using an Electron container, probably to force the app. Screensharing always tends to get stuck after a while, and they ignore any requests to start supporting Wayland, even while it takes minimal changes(update Electron).

Nowadays it's easy to setup your own conference server, and use webbased clients that don't require yet another Electron container. For instance, Galene(https://github.com/jech/galene) is an excellent resource-friendly SFU built on top of Pion(Golang).

Shameless plug: I'm the author of Pyrite(https://github.com/garage44/pyrite), an alternative WebRTC frontend for Galene

Yep. Ran one during most of the pandemic: https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-ubuntu-jitsi

I have been running Jitsi Meet (https://meet.jit.si/) for a little over a year[1] for a group of friends to do their monthly meetings during the COVID times, and tried this out a little while ago.

I liked it, but there is still a fair amount of assemby required, and I hope they get it to the point where (like Jitsi) everything is a docker-compose away.

[1]: https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-ubuntu-jitsi - all my tweaks, ready to deploy

The most interesting thing for me is actually the galene server, but playing around with the demo server and looking at the documentation it seems to be a fair bit behind Jitsi in ease of use and deployment.

(I built a one-shot template to deploy and run Jitsi on Azure - https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-ubuntu-jitsi - and it's been trivial to maintain over the past two years, for a small group of friends and monthly "open sessions")

I'm not enamored of the Pyrite UI (again, Jitsi seems simpler), but I'll keep an eye on both.