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Video conferencing with BigBlueButton

phenil — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:07:23 +0000

how to connect database in bigbluebutton server i am from when i want to connect my database so plz tel me how i will connect my database

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zucke — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 12:59:59 +0000

Nice !
For your sprint, how many webcams can you share for one conference?

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darwi — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:43:14 +0000

Our editor must've been in a good mood while writing this. Thanks a lot for all the humor :)

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cyphar — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 08:07:49 +0000

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).

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tonyblackwell — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 03:44:44 +0000

+1. We all need the laughs these days...

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hazmat — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 01:35:11 +0000

its a wget | bash that installs a bunch of docker containers ;-) turtles are stacked high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

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smoogen — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:41:29 +0000

Mr Corbet is once again he epitome of understatement:

... Your editor used the script, but only after eyeballing it (thus guaranteeing that it is secure) and making a change as described below.

Thank you... I needed that laugh

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guerby — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 14:59:01 +0000

With the help of bbb dev we found out if you have ADSL users wanting to share their screen you need to change the server configured share screen bandwith settings which is by default 1.5 Mbit/s so above so max 1 Mbit/s upload of ADSL and trouble follows.

Ticket we opened and help of bbb devs:
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/8944

More scripting details on what we ended up using (text in french) :

https://lists.tetaneutral.net/pipermail/technique/2020-Ap...

short version:

yq w -i $CODEC_CONFIG conference-media-specs.H264.tias_content "250000"
yq w -i $CODEC_CONFIG conference-media-specs.H264.as_content "250"
yq w -i $CODEC_CONFIG conference-media-specs.VP8.tias_content "250000"
yq w -i $CODEC_CONFIG conference-media-specs.VP8.as_content "250"

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vane — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:48:16 +0000

BigBlueButton is at least 10 years old project. Remember them streaming and whiteboard with flex application and their code was on code.google back then so they're definitely mature.

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sealne — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:44:41 +0000

We are currently planning to use BBB for KDE's Akademy 2020 conference

At the moment we are testing it with a sprint that is going well currently

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madhatter — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 06:50:46 +0000

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

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karkhaz — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:55:04 +0000

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.

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Cyberax — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:45:36 +0000

Does it support video conferencing?

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karkhaz — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:26:11 +0000

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Matrix in the comments on the Jitsi article. I'm finding it quite excellent for ~15 people. It has a diverse range of clients, but I only know about people using Riot on various platforms.

LWN hasn't reviewed Matrix as an end-user, but there's an old article about the protocol itself [1], as well as coverage of the project leader's FOSDEM talk last year [2].

Thanks for this series, today's article gave me a good chuckle :)

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/632572/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/779331/

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NHO — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 21:42:43 +0000

How about Jangouts?
https://github.com/jangouts/jangouts

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IanKelling — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:39:02 +0000

At FSF, we are also finding BBB to be more stable than Jitsi. Related: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication, feel free to contribute.

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mtaht — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:14:05 +0000

https://sylkserver.com/ is next on my list to try.