On Monday, 30 March 2020 14:11:44 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > True. And it also needs volunteers to do bit of a trial in the days > leading up to it so solutions can be communicated on the list in > advance, e.g. turning off your video feed if upstream bandwidth is an > issue.
Well. I've listed the commercial offerings that I use and I now recall (prompted by looking up the email address I created for the account at the time), that I was using qtox and utox. As I recall they both worked OKish on Ubuntu at the time. However, a single-ended trial is not very meaningful. I have successfully installed Zoom, but I've not used it so who knows? Similarly can every one use a tox client? (Apparently not see below) > The open-source issue is why I mentioned Jitsi. > https://www.mail-archive.com/dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk/msg09166.html > For example, https://meet.jit.si/dorset-lug I've not used jitsi, but I'm happy to try it. > It's best within Chrome or Chrome-wrapped-up-in-Electron if the Chrome > browser isn't available. Up to date Firefox's fair better than older > ones. I've just installed in Chromium. The only problem is that the person that schedules the meeting appears to need to join it via Google Calendar or Oulook 365 (spit). > Perhaps the Tox protocol, qtox is one program. It's doesn't do > multi-party audio/video. Ah I didn't know that. Clearly not suitable. > No, it's not the same, but it might be better in some ways, e.g. share a > window, or new participants arrive. There is that. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, post-lurgi 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
