[kwlug-disc] Videoconference testing -- please help

Doug Moen doug at moens.org
Tue Mar 17 22:15:58 EDT 2020


Mattermost supports audio- and video-conferencing by integrating with 3rd party products. So the question remains open, which videoconferencing software do you use?
https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/video-and-audio-calling.html

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, at 1:47 AM, Benjamin Tompkins wrote:
> I've never tried it, but there's also https://mattermost.com/product/
> 
> Not sure it it would be appropriate for this purpose.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:44 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks to Jon, Ron Singh, and Mikalai for helping me test things out.
>> 
>>  I think we determined that Jitsi and Nextcloud talk are not ideal. Ron
>>  was correct that the application takes a LOT of CPU on the client
>>  side. On my old netbook I could not get any audio. Screen sharing did
>>  not really work. Ron was also unable to hear anything we were saying,
>>  even though he had his microphone and webcam shared.
>> 
>>  We also tried the demo server of BigBlueButton and that worked much
>>  better for us. Audio worked for everybody. BBB deals with PDFs really
>>  well. However, screen sharing did not work (which may have been
>>  resource limitations on the server).
>> 
>>  The next steps are to see whether I can make an in-house BBB server
>>  work, and test it on that. Otherwise we may just try the demo BBB
>>  server for our meeting.
>> 
>>  There are a couple of other options, but I am not sure how much
>>  effort I will put into them. I think Rocket.Chat might be using Jitsi
>>  as well. There is an Apache project called OpenMeetings which might be
>>  worth a shot, but it is ugly. (My bandwidth for dealing with this is
>>  also somewhat limited.) 
>> 
>>  - Paul
>> 
>>  On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:23:56PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>>  > Ronald set up a NextCloud instance with its "talk" application (which
>>  > I think is just Jitsi).
>>  > 
>>  > We probably cannot do stress testing today but we can do some
>>  > usability testing. Can you help? If a few people can join the call
>>  > tonight that would be nice. We can also do something tomorrow evening.
>>  > 
>>  > The conference call is:
>>  > https://nextcloud.kwvoip.ca/index.php/call/srm7bfe9
>>  > 
>>  > The password is: clusterssh 
>>  > 
>>  > Just join. Maybe I will hear you and reply. 
>>  > 
>>  > - Paul
>>  > 
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