A demo video: WebRTC, Jitsi Videobridge and COLIBRI

[Emil Ivov]

Hey all,

A few of use have just created a sample video showing Jitsi Videobridge
and WebRTC in action. You can check it out here:

http://goo.gl/nS1b7H

For those of you who haven't had the chance to learn about the bridge
yet, it acts as a video relay or, more preciesely, a Selective
Forwarding Unit (SFU), that mixes audio but keeps video streams
separated when forwarding them to all participants in a conference call.

This allows for a great scalability potential contrary to other
approaches like full mesh conferences or content/composite mixing.

The reason you are seeing a burst of Jitsi Videobridge related posts
lately is because we have recently made it compatible with WebRTC by
adding to it DTLS and ICE support (kudos to Lyubomir Marinov). This
means that it can now be used to build video conferences in a web page
like the video above shows.

The actual JavaScript application in the video (which we will make
publicly available very soon) is built by Philipp Hancke from Estos. It
uses the COLIBRI XMPP protocol extension ( https://jitsi.org/colibri )
to control the Jitsi Videobridge. It also uses XMPP Multi-User Chats
(MUCs) to keep track of and control participants.

All in all this makes for a very neat project and a completely open
alternative to Google Hangouts.

You will very likely be hearing more about this in the following days
and weeks.

Cheers,
Emil

[Carola y Pablo]

Folks

I have tried meet.jit.si. Sometimes the video bridge works, sometimes
not. For example, I just tried it on Chrome from Linux to Windows--the
other party could hear me, see me, and we could chat. But his video
didn't work. I couldn't see him.

When I tried it between three computers on the same network, two
connections worked, the third one did not.

Suggestions?

Paul

Post by Emil Ivov
Hey all,
A few of use have just created a sample video showing Jitsi Videobridge
http://goo.gl/nS1b7H
For those of you who haven't had the chance to learn about the bridge
yet, it acts as a video relay or, more preciesely, a Selective
Forwarding Unit (SFU), that mixes audio but keeps video streams
separated when forwarding them to all participants in a conference call.
This allows for a great scalability potential contrary to other
approaches like full mesh conferences or content/composite mixing.
The reason you are seeing a burst of Jitsi Videobridge related posts
lately is because we have recently made it compatible with WebRTC by
adding to it DTLS and ICE support (kudos to Lyubomir Marinov). This
means that it can now be used to build video conferences in a web page
like the video above shows.
The actual JavaScript application in the video (which we will make
publicly available very soon) is built by Philipp Hancke from Estos. It
uses the COLIBRI XMPP protocol extension ( https://jitsi.org/colibri )
to control the Jitsi Videobridge. It also uses XMPP Multi-User Chats
(MUCs) to keep track of and control participants.
All in all this makes for a very neat project and a completely open
alternative to Google Hangouts.
You will very likely be hearing more about this in the following days
and weeks.
Cheers,
Emil