Video conferencing with Jitsi

Posted Mar 26, 2020 1:51 UTC (Thu) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087)
Parent article: Video conferencing with Jitsi

Dear Jon:

It would be pretty cool if you put up your jitsi server and invited folk into a "commune with the editors" - both as a stress test and, well, It's been pretty lonely around here lately, and I kind of miss yer ugly mug. Some virtual beer all 'round might help too.

Communing with the editors

Posted Mar 26, 2020 14:03 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

Bringing in your ugly mug would stress-test the software in its own way! :)

I have been pondering various schemes, but things are still at a pretty early point, stay tuned.

Communing with the editors

Posted Mar 27, 2020 17:11 UTC (Fri) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087) [Link]

Certainly I know that fq_codel, cake, (and pie to some extent) make quality videoconferencing wonderful under contending loads, but I only theorize that these algos will also make p2p multi-party conferences work much better also.

(e2e there's also ongoing issues like poorly implemented rtsp feedback - so far as I know freeswitch doesn't do it still)

In the long scheme of things merely removing network jitter, latency and irrelevant loss (and even adding in-band sce or l4s signaling), is hugely important, but also encoder latency and responsiveness is a huge problem also. I miss scan lines! ( https://lola.conts.it/ )

trying to find people wit the time and motivation to tackle this has long been on my mind ( https://www.internetsociety.org/events/latency2013/ ) . I really do miss the days when making a phone call across town on the switched phone network was like wispering in your lover's ear!

And first up would be getting more folk to enable quality uplink queue management. Or show how bad it can get when you don't have it.