<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I'll echo that too. Last Thursday I experienced my first large-ish Jitsi meeting with another group and I was shocked as how polished everything was. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung device running Android (basically Linux in drag)</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Ron Singh <ronsingh149@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 2020-05-18 12:44 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] FOSS Video Chat apps reviewed </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Nice article, good information.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>My 2 cents: <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">About 2 years ago when I started looking for a replacement for Skype, <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I played with a few video conf apps including Jitsi. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">It was not a resounding success for me, really high CPU needs of 85% on my lowly 2nd Gen i5 Thinkpad, jittery video and some audio drops.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Today however, Jitsi is so much more -- CPU is down to the 35% mark on the same laptop, the installed app has a ton of settings to tweak and is stable to a fault. I have been using it with my clan dispersed throughout Ontario, the US and the UK, No drops, excellent video/audio synch.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I still have to use the closed Zoom and Webex for work-related stuff, but am standing on the street corner pushing Jitsi whenever I can.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The link for the apps are here --</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://desktop.jitsi.org/Main/Download">https://desktop.jitsi.org/Main/Download</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">In terms of quality of experience with groups of 6-12, Zoom still winds hands down, but Jitsi is so so close; give it a couple of upgrade cycles and I think it will be there. Hats off to the folks at Jitsi!<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:16 AM CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>For those of us still keeping an ear out for FOSS video chat apps.. five of them are reviewed here:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://opensource.com/article/20/5/open-source-video-conferencing" target="_blank">https://opensource.com/article/20/5/open-source-video-conferencing</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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