[kwlug-disc] Videoconference testing -- please help

[Hubert Chathi]

One issue with Jitsi (and probably similar for other browser-based
conferencing products) is that it doesn't work as well with Firefox,
partially due to missing features in Firefox[1].  It works a lot better
if everyone on the conference is using Chrom(e|ium).  We use Jitsi a lot
at my work, and it's one of the only things that I use Chromium for.

[1] See https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758#issuecomment-548795402

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:43:41 -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> said:

> Thanks to Jon, Ron Singh, and Mikalai for helping me test things out.
> I think we determined that Jitsi and Nextcloud talk are not ideal. Ron
> was correct that the application takes a LOT of CPU on the client
> side. On my old netbook I could not get any audio. Screen sharing did
> not really work. Ron was also unable to hear anything we were saying,
> even though he had his microphone and webcam shared.

> We also tried the demo server of BigBlueButton and that worked much
> better for us. Audio worked for everybody. BBB deals with PDFs really
> well. However, screen sharing did not work (which may have been
> resource limitations on the server).

> The next steps are to see whether I can make an in-house BBB server
> work, and test it on that. Otherwise we may just try the demo BBB
> server for our meeting.

> There are a couple of other options, but I am not sure how much effort
> I will put into them. I think Rocket.Chat might be using Jitsi as
> well. There is an Apache project called OpenMeetings which might be
> worth a shot, but it is ugly. (My bandwidth for dealing with this is
> also somewhat limited.)

> - Paul

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:23:56PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> Ronald set up a NextCloud instance with its "talk" application (which
>> I think is just Jitsi).
>> 
>> We probably cannot do stress testing today but we can do some
>> usability testing. Can you help? If a few people can join the call
>> tonight that would be nice. We can also do something tomorrow
>> evening.
>> 
>> The conference call is:
>> https://nextcloud.kwvoip.ca/index.php/call/srm7bfe9
>> 
>> The password is: clusterssh
>> 
>> Just join. Maybe I will hear you and reply.
>> 
>> - Paul
>> 
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