jitsi
jitsi-meet
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jitsi / jitsi-meet
jitsi-meet
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
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What it is
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 70 | 4 | 66 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Jitsi Meet
Jitsi Meet is a set of Open Source projects which empower users to use and deploy
video conferencing platforms with state-of-the-art video quality and features.
Amongst others here are the main features Jitsi Meet offers:
Support for all current browsers
Mobile applications
Web and native SDKs for integration
HD audio and video
Content sharing
Raise hand and reactions
Chat with private conversations
Polls
Virtual backgrounds
And many more!
Using Jitsi Meet
Using Jitsi Meet is straightforward, as it's browser based. Head over to meet.jit.si and give it a try. It's scalable and free to use. All you need is a Google, Facebook or GitHub account in order to start a meeting. All browsers are supported!
Using mobile? No problem, you can either use your mobile web browser or our fully-featured
mobile apps:
Android
Android (F-Droid)
iOS
If you are feeling adventurous and want to get an early scoop of the features as they are being
developed you can also sign up for our open beta testing here:
Android
iOS
Running your own instance
If you'd like to run your own Jitsi Meet installation head over to the handbook to get started.
We provide Debian packages and a comprehensive Docker setup to make deployments as simple as possible.
Advanced users also have the possibility of building all the components from source.
You can check the latest releases here.
Jitsi as a Service
If you like the branding capabilities of running your own instance but you'd like
to avoid dealing with the complexity of monitoring, scaling and updates, JaaS might be
for you.
8x8 Jitsi as a Service (JaaS) is an enterprise-ready video meeting platform that allows developers, organizations and businesses to easily build and deploy video solutions. With Jitsi as a Service we now give you all the power of Jitsi running on our global platform so you can focus on building secure and branded video experiences.
Documentation
All the Jitsi Meet documentation is available in the handbook.
Security
For a comprehensive description of all Jitsi Meet's security aspects, please check this link.
For a detailed description of Jitsi Meet's End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) implementation,
please check this link.
For information on reporting security vulnerabilities in Jitsi Meet, see SECURITY.md.
Contributing
If you are looking to contribute to Jitsi Meet, first of all, thank you! Please
see our guidelines for contributing.
Built with ❤️ by the Jitsi team at 8x8 and our community.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
88 sourcesHave not been able to reproduce with camera, mic however is unmuted: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/16262#issuecommen...
In Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture2016-01-23
https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr/issues/431
2019-01-04 (only took 3 1/2 years to resolve!)
https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/issues/22
2020-03-07
https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG/issues/51
2020-03-07
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2471
2020-03-24
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/6389
2023-09
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/
2023-11-17
https://github.com/raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback/issues/149
In The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)Until recently[1], jitsi was not working properly on Firefox.
Which was very frustrating given they are both free software :(
1: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758#issuecomment...
In What will a Chromium-only Web look like?I found Jitsi: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet but is a very big projects and not easy to understand.
I need some other alternative solutions, with much fewer codes, that has features like:
[1] webcam streaming
[2] audio streaming
[3] screen sharing
[4] file sharing
[5] messaging
[6] whiteboard
[7] recording
Any help is very appreciated.
Thanks
In Ask HN: Open-Source alternative to Zoom – Teams – Google meet and so onRight now? Nothing, jitsi meet exists.
https://meet.jit.si
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
In Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its serviceThere could actually be technical reasons behind it, for example Jitsi had this bug open for quite a while: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758 referring a few Firefox bugs - apparently mostly fixed by updates to Firefox; perhaps the vendors of your the web app you used didn't get the news yet.
In Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDsJitsi is open source, so you can look at the exact mechanics of their billing counter to answer your question:
It's all orchestrated from here:
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/react/featur...
Which generates the MAU ID via:
react/features/billing-counter/functions.js:80
/*
* Returns the stored billing id (or generates a new one if none is present).
*
* @returns {string}
*/
export function getBillingId() {
let billingId = jitsiLocalStorage.getItem(BILLING_ID);
if (!billingId) {
billingId = uuid.v4();
jitsiLocalStorage.setItem(BILLING_ID, billingId);
}
return billingId;
}
In JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for youJitsi has issues with Firefox (https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758) preventing it to work as well as in Chrome.
In The Endless Browser WarsWhat you will want is a SFU. This is a non-exhaustive list, if others want to chime in would appreciate it!
* https://galene.org
* https://github.com/pion/ion
* https://github.com/peer-calls/peer-calls
* https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway
* https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup
* https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
* https://github.com/fox-one/mornin.fm
In PeerJS – Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTCAwesome, thank you! Even though it's not what I was hoping for. If you're still set up, you could try with Chrome on both ends, since a single Firefox participant is known to degrade the quality for the whole conference. (I'll try to find a reference once I'm at my desk.) I suppose if the rpi is at 100% cpu that's unrelated, though.
Edit: The issue I mentioned appears to be fixed for a while: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/5439 More discussion here: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
In Raspberry Pi 400 teardown and reviewThere's (was?) https://framatalk.org/ which is jitsi meet https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
In Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groupsDon't use Zoom, and better-yet, ditch proprietary software altogether! Instead, use Signal (which has incredible voice/audio quality) or Jitsi (https://meet.jit.si/).
There are lots of other Jitsi servers, too. Pick your favorite: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instance...
In Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship”I believe Firefox issues in Jitsi were a problem before but are sorted out now.
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758#issuecomment...
In Calla – spatial video conferencing software based on Jitsi MeetShowing the 15 most recent of 88 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.