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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by paulgb on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:31PM (#23481722)
I've wanted to like Jitsi, but the quality difference with Zoom is noticeable. Same with Google Meet and anything I've seen that uses WebRTC. They remind me of RealPlayer back in the early 2000s in terms of blockyness.

I would love to know about any Zoom competitors, free or paid, with comparable quality.

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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by frabbit on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:59PM (#23482050)
Jitsi Meet works fine as long as you do not use Firefox.

W.r.t. the general meme about WebRTC, this is old (2018) and explicitly does not claim to be anything other than suggestive: https://jitsi.org/blog/a-simple-congestion-test-for-zoom/

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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by paulgb on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:26PM (#23482336)
> Jitsi Meet works fine as long as you do not use Firefox.

That's the fix I needed, cheers! For some reason it doesn't impact the Google Meet quality for me but now Jitsi looks great.

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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by frabbit on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:13PM (#23482190)
And this is better: https://bloggeek.me/when-will-zoom-use-webrtc/
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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by nix23 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:57AM (#23487455)
Sorry, works on my Firefox quite ~well BUT uses 3 time's more CPU...so there's that ;)
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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by setgree on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:02PM (#23482661)
I had some issues with Jitsi on Brave but it worked fine on Chrome
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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by j45 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:39PM (#23481814)
Wire.com may be of interest to you. I have been checking out a few as well.
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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by nix23 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:55AM (#23487443)
If you have your own jitsy server, you can define the max quality up to 1080p i think, the free jitsy service/server has probably really low 'max' video quality.

BigBlueButton is also interesting, but it's more like a Schooling-tool...but also without a client (aka just need a browser)

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