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 -- Robinson Tryon LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald Senior QA Bug Wrangler The Document Foundation [email protected] [1] That's what's preventing FF from interoperating w/Jitsi Meet -- for more details, see https://meet.jit.si/chromeonly.html -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
