[kwlug-disc] ZOO-FAANG-free list

[Hubert Chathi]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:58:33 -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> said:

> Note that BBB does not scale that well. People on the newsgroup report
> that it chokes around 80 users, and cannot go much above 150 because
> of node.js .

> There ought to be a way to streamcast a BBB session the way that the
> FSF streamed the Jitsi session, but I do not know what that is yet. It
> is tricky because a BBB session consists of several different streams:
> the HTML5 client, the audio (FreeSWITCH), and one stream per
> webcam/screensharing session (Kurento).

FSF wrote a blog post[1] about how they did the virtual LibrePlanet
conference.  It looks like they just did a screen capture of jitsi and
streamed that, so it should work with BBB too.

[1] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/how-to-livestream-a-conference-in-just-under-a-week

My company often does something similar for our meetings, but using OBS
instead of GStreamer.