Apache OpenMeetings – Video chat, messaging, white board, doc editing and more

Re:Apache OpenMeetings – Video chat, messaging, white board,... by meibo on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:03AM (#25209290)

Considering how much my university(about 3k students) seems to struggle with their BigBlueButton install, I wonder if it's really that hard to scale.

Voice, video drop out all the time, loading takes ages, recordings only process 50% of the time - and they say that they upgraded the machine it runs on three times with 80 cores and 500GB RAM. Especially when the lecturer insists on using a document camera, but the bitrate of the video is so small that you can't make out anything.

Really not that pleasant, especially in a situation where you need to depend on it for every event.

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Re:Apache OpenMeetings – Video chat, messaging, white board,... by dsr_ on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:52PM (#25214177)

Several of those issues suggest insufficient bandwidth. The others suggest that there should be more than one BBB server, not one gigantic BBB server.

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Re:Apache OpenMeetings – Video chat, messaging, white board,... by o-__-o on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:58PM (#25215234)

I think parent was saying the more than one BBB servers were upgraded to more than one gigantic BBB servers

It’s a uni so they probably adopted the throw-ideas-at-the-wall-until-it-sticks approach

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Re:Apache OpenMeetings – Video chat, messaging, white board,... by meibo on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @08:24PM (#25216061)

Yeah, as far as I know they run 5 machines with these specs for the actual conferences now - still encountering these issues and no end of covid in sight for the near future, so I hope that they can figure it out.

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