Comment by somat
13 days ago
For what it's worth, if you want a self hosted replacement for Zoom Galene has worked great for me, The server requirements are remarkably low, especially if you are like me and just need a personal video chat to a few people. I run it on an old apu-2 with openbsd(which is just about the worst combination and it still works great) As a bonus there is no client, that is, the client is just a web page so very low friction to get people to use it.
I just installed it and went on a deep dive for hours today. Interface is kinda clunky but it seems to mostly work.
I had a lot of trouble getting certificates updated while running on my OpenWRT router. But other things were easy but tedious, like setting up a DNS record on one of my domains, and temporarily opening ports for it an certbot (a rust clone) etc. But now I feel I understand it all and tweaks should be easy from now on.
+1.
I am running a Galene instance via the YunoHost self-hosting package on a small dedicated server (2 cores, 4gb of RAM).
So far it’s much better than I expected, both in terms of latency and the overall video/audio quality. Feels better than Jitsi and even a FaceTime / WhatsApp call.
> So far [Galene is] much better than I expected, both in terms of latency and the overall video/audio quality
Latency is better, since Galene uses an unordered buffer instead of a jitter buffer. Lipsynch should also be slightly better, as Galene carefully computes audio/video offsets and forwards the result to the receiver so it can compensate.
Audio and video quality, on the other hand, should be roughly the same, unless Jitsi is doing something wrong.
What happened to Jitsi?
They switched to requiring google/microsoft accounts, and now dead to me. Looking at jami now.
This only (but still sadly) applies to the use of the meet.jit.si instance.
If you self host there are no such requirements.
It is still a thing. I used it 2 days ago actually.