DEdetaro·Apr 3, 2020
They also have a more low-level API! (There is an example app in the /doc folder, it looked reasonable to use)
https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet
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lib-jitsi-meet
A low-level JS video API that allows adding a completely custom video experience to web apps.
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A low-level JS video API that allows adding a completely custom video experience to web apps.
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Observed mentions: 2020-03-13 20:55:03 UTC to 2020-04-03 23:13:09 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 13 | 2020-03-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mar 14 | 2020-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 15 | 2020-03-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 16 | 2020-03-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 17 | 2020-03-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 18 | 2020-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 19 | 2020-03-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 20 | 2020-03-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 21 | 2020-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 22 | 2020-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23 | 2020-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24 | 2020-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 25 | 2020-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26 | 2020-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27 | 2020-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28 | 2020-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 29 | 2020-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 30 | 2020-03-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 31 | 2020-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 1 | 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2 | 2020-04-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-03 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 3 | 2020-04-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-04-04 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesPatches are being reviewed: https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/pull/1062
Included:
"Fix the order of the simulcast streams for Firefox."
Subscribe to this issue to keep track of things: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
From the latest comments you can see that Firefox upstream is also improving things.
In Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (2018)Do you mean some parties are unable to connect? There are some open issues, limitations, and Jitsi Meet does not officially support all browsers.
Here is the supported list:
https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/blob/master/modules/...
For example, Brave Browser is still not fully supported:
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/3978
In Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to ZoomI read and re-read this "examples" docs page several times:
https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/API....
Hats off to anyone who can rapidly go from those docs to a deployed and working app. I was able to modify the repo linked in the parent to suit my needs in roughly 2-3 hours, much of which was install/setup.
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