On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 11:00:03AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting hjenkins (2020-11-26 03:30:30) > > I agree on the need for multiperson videoconference hosting in > > Freedombox. Though, as Jonas Smedegaard says, the hardware demands may > > be beyond many freedomboxes,
My FreedomBox runs on a PCEngines apu1d4, so maybe not the low end, and I've been running video conferencing for a few months now using the matrix server on it. > For the record, I said that _Jitsi Meet_ requirements are too demanding. That, I have seen, but Jitsi Meet doesn't run on the FreedomBox. I'm using Element-desktop (ex-Riot-desktop) on an internal machine. There is not much documentation on Element, but it appears to be a GUI front- end to Jitsi, in addition to managing the chat rooms, users and encrypted text chats, and it uses about 80% cpu on an i3 3.4GHz quad core. I regularly engage in video conferencing with 2 other remote people and it works well enough. I'm sure it would work better with higher bandwidth. Are people thinking of running everything (multiple clients such as Element-desktop and the matrix server) on the FreedomBox? But isn't that what the web client does? Incidentally, when I clicked to start the web client, it tried to go to https://app.element.io (I have JavaScript disabled by default via NoScript). Since I already have Element-desktop installed and working, I don't want to experiment right now. My 2 video conferencers also run Element-desktop (on Windows) and connect to the matrix server on the FreedomBox. One of them commented on the cpu load. I suspect most of the CPU load is due to the displaying of the video and processing of the camera input. > Other multiperson videoconference hosting exist, including janus which > is both light on resource demands and already packaged for Debian. It would be nice to have interoperability with zoom without requiring setting up a zoom account, but zoom probably doesn't allow it. This kind of inter-operatibily is what videobridge apparently does but I haven't looked into it. Augustine > A demo of Janus is running on a 32bit ARM host with 2GB memory - similar > constraints as an Olimex LIME2 - at https://janus.debian.net/ > > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
