Re: [us-marketing] WebRTC: Challenges of browser-based video chat

On Sunday, June 08, 2014 06:58:46 AM Robinson Tryon wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> As noted in my Community Meeting email, I mentioned in May that I'd
> like us to have our next meeting using WebRTC (http://webrtc.org/).
> I've been hoping for some time to use WebRTC videochat for various
> TDF/LibreOffice meetings, as this would allow us to have a chat using
> 100% Free/Open Source Software AND would allow people to use their
> current browser without having to download anything new.
>
> I did a bit of research, and although I got some promising results, I
> ran into a couple of problems.
>
> * Jitsi Meet (https://meet.jit.si) is the most stable WebRTC
> video-conference-enabler I found, but Firefox doesn't implement the
> pieces necessary for FF to broker WebRTC streams through that site.
>
> * Talky.io (http://talky.io/) is another video-conf-enabler site, and
> does (or did -- I've had some problems with recent FF builds) seem to
> work with FF, but has problems working between FF and Chromium, and in
> general is a bit more flaky than Jitsi Meet.
>
> So, for the time being I'm going to move forward with using Chromium +
> Jitsi Meet as our test setup for WebRTC videochat. This give us 100%
> FOSS setup, and although it may require any FF-only users to install
> a new piece of software, Chromium has a high likelyhood of being
> useful for other purposes -- e.g. if you need to test something in
> two different browser environments.
>
> If you have any questions or suggestions, or perhaps have mad
> programming skills and would like to submit a patch to Firefox to get
> multistream support[1] working, please let me know!
>
> Cheers,
> --R
Just looked at site in Chromium using openSUSE 13.1 and KDE 4.13.1. 
Looks like it comes up, but will it be useful too follow the meeting 
with no camera or mic? I was just planning to listen in for now. on IRC 
I could follow it. 

Russ
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