[Babel-users] OT: experimental videoconferencing server

[Benjamin Henrion]

On Saturday, April 11, 2020, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In case anyone is looking for more secure alternatives to the commecial
> videoconferencing offerings...
>
> I've been doing my lectures over BigBlueButton.  I'm very happy with it --
> it's rock solid, scales to 70 people with no problem, and the user
> interface is well designed for lectures.  Our system engineers say that it
> requires non-trivial server resources, though.
>
> One of the interns I'm working with recommends Jitsi.  I have no personal
> experience with it.
>
> For my own needs (chatting with my parents and drinking beer with my
> friends), I've written a very simple WebRTC-based videoconferencing server
> that requires virtually no server resources and is very easy to install.
> It builds a complete mesh between the participants in a group (which is
> why it requires little server resources), so don't expect it to scale
> beyond a handful of participants, but it works fine for small groups (the
> maximum we've done was six, including the cat, who of course had his own
> webcam).
>
>     https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/chat/
>
> (I know, I know, I should get my act together and release babeld 1.9.2
> rather than hacking WebRTC.)


Does not work with Firefox on iPad.

I wanted to pétition Apple for this. There are nasty restrictions for Apple
apps and WebRTC.


>
> -- Juliusz
>
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