Video conferencing with BigBlueButton

Posted Apr 10, 2020 22:55 UTC (Fri) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844)
In reply to: Video conferencing with BigBlueButton by Cyberax
Parent article: Video conferencing with BigBlueButton

The protocol and the Riot clients support video nicely. Some of the other clients also do, but (having tried some in the past), some of the ones that claim to support video don't actually (or it's flaky). I haven't tried other clients recently, though, so this may have changed (and in fact I use video only a few times a week, I prefer text chat on the console with weechat). I'm quite hopeful for there to be a diverse ecosystem of clients, but many of the current ones are in beta or abandoned.

Video conferencing with BigBlueButton

Posted Apr 11, 2020 6:50 UTC (Sat) by madhatter (subscriber, #4665) [Link] (1 responses)

As I understand it, the videoconferencing facility in Riot is Jitsi, via a plugin.

Video conferencing with BigBlueButton

Posted Apr 12, 2020 8:07 UTC (Sun) by cyphar (subscriber, #110703) [Link]

That's the case for multi-user calls. 1:1 calls are done peer-to-peer, and this is the reason why 1:1 calls work in E2EE rooms while multi-user calls don't (Jitsi doesn't provide E2EE because WebRTC doesn't yet support it).