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That is the now legacy multi-protocol desktop client. It's not compatible with Jitsi Meet, the video conferencing product you may want.

You don't need a desktop app to use Jitsi Meet, any browser will do, but we do have a Electron client with a few extra features: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron

Correct, the browser can’t do it. The platform support for doing it together with screen sharing varies: works just for the shared tab on macOS / Linux, works for all system audio on Windows IIRC.

While this functionality could potentially be added to the Electron app, I think using an external virtual audio device is the way to go since you’ll have a lot more flexibility. On macOS you can use BlackHole for instance: https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

Netdata is pretty robust for real time monitoring. Not quite sure how you would get it to show your Jitsi connections but someone here may know. The rest of what you are looking for, and a whole lot more, is straight outta the box.

/u/saghul - I know this has been mentioned before, about having JitsiMeet capture audio like Zoom can be set to just capture computer audio without sharing screens --

Is it something that can be added now that [https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron](Jitsi has t's own Electron app/software program)? I seem to recall that was the limiting factor since browsers can't really do it?

Stupid question, but you're after the videobridge /server, right? Not the recently, just released Desktop client software for Jitsi Meet here?

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron

My Mac users would benefit the most from this, but getting them to download a.dmg file from here, dismiss a warning from the OS (see that same page), install from the downloaded file, and then manage to find the application - they'd struggle. Still, it's an option. Also: can mobile Mac devices - the ones on 'iOS' I think - run the app, please?

You could look into a self hosted Big Blue Button (or self hosted Jitsi). I saw in a different comment that you want it to be easy. I can't speak for Jitsi, but for Big Blue Button you can just run their install script on an Ubuntu 16 server (which you can get from Digital Ocean, Linode, Hetzner or many other cloud providers), wait for 15 or so minutes, then it's ready to use!

You need to use your own infrastructure (own servers) if you remove the logo though. If you are, then no problem.

https://jitsi.org/meet-jit-si-terms-of-service/

Performance evaluation shows that it can handle 1000 simultaneous connections easily. The 1056 streams end up taking taking about 20% CPU.

https://jitsi.org/jitsi-videobridge-performance-evaluation/

On a plain Xeon server that you can rent for about a hundred dollars, for about 20% CPU you will be able to run 1000+ video streams using an average of 550 Mbps!

Some of setup of the user connection limit may be required for more users.

https://community.jitsi.org/t/user-connection-limit-on-one-meet-server-nginx-prosody-jicofo/23501/2

I find it odd there's two Jitsi subreddits- I see both so far talk about Jitsi Meet , as opposed to ?manually hosting Jitsi instances?

But anyway, this is important enough that I figured this sub needed to know-

I got this working(NOTE: On meets created on their other site, alpha.jitsi.net, not meet.jit.si, still trying to figure out why, though they said it's enabled there as well, i didnt see the menu option) Grabbed Chrome Canary, turned on the Web Platform features, made a meet at the alpha site- got someone else to do the same, and it worked! (For those privacy-focused, my disable webrtc leak addons I brought into chrome canary worked fine, and did not hurt this)

So we now have a(in development, but functional) open-source end to end client side encrypted video conferencing solution

Can't wait till Firefox gets this- I've asked about Chromium, but we need people with the mainstream version or development versions of chromium who actually have it installed to report back if this is implemented there yet.

but yeah- E2E can be played with! (They had mentioned that here https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/)

Good on you!

Could you please give me some idea about resource usage.

Do you know how many calls are being handled and/or simply post some stats about memory, cpu, bandwidth usage.

I am planning of setting one myself. want to find out about what hw resources it would need.

PS for others looking for the same https://jitsi.org/jitsi-videobridge-performance-evaluation/

1. Not yet
2. No.
3. It's P2P for two participants. For more participants traffic is routed over a central instance called a videobridge. You can host it yourself for more security.
4. Every room is deleted after participants leave. The public jitsi meet instance on meet.jit.si does not use accounts.