Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by fergbrain on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:38PM
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I use it with Firefox and it works just fine
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Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by acidburnNSA on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:35PM
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It works on Firefox but does not have simulcast support so whenever someone on Firefox joins, other devices have to use vastly more CPU and bandwidth. My phone dropped 50% battery in 10 minutes with a Firefox user on.
It is being worked on [1].
Firefox was a supported browser but they took it off the list in January until this issue is fixed. [2]
[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758#issuecomment...
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by lvs on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:02AM
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Sounds like a great DOS attack on meetings you don't want to be in. Just join from Firefox and everyone's battery dies.
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by Naac on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:41PM
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What version of Firefox? What OS?
Can confirm Firefox-dev on Linux has no working video.
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by Fice on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:08PM
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Firefox 74.0 on Fedora works.
AFAIK Firefox on GNU/Linux uses Gstreamer. Maybe you need to install gstreamer codec packages.
Update: Firefox switched to FFmpeg and removed Gstreamer support some time ago. I have FFmpeg installed from rpmfusion, but I don't know if that's relevant to WebRTC and Jitsi.
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by renaudg on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:54PM
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Looks like 2020 is still not the "year of Linux on the desktop"
(from a desktop Linux user years 1996-2004)
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by dontdieych on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:00PM
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Arch linux
Firefox Nightly 76
Works fine though not tested mic(muted on system).
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by monksy on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:51PM
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Firefox stable /Linux. Video works.
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by lytedev on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:43PM
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Firefox preview on my phone in desktop mode worked FWIW.
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by skylerwshaw on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:31PM
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If that's on iOS, you're not actually using Firefox since it uses Apple's Webkit.