reccomendations of conference / party audio video software ?

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 12:38 AM Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk> wrote:
>
> People have been saying good things about jitsi (Java based) bu the
> port didn't work on a quick try (my ports tree isn't very new though
> and there was no time to update it).

I second this.
In principle, a sufficiently recent build of Chrome/Chromium browser
might do the trick,
jitsi meet (javascript-based, IMHO) works in it just fine.


>
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 17:06:56 +0100
> "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi ports@
> > Any reccomendations of conference / social group party chat server
> > software ?
> >
> > As much more of the world goes into lock down & social distancing, ie
> > not meeting friends at the pub / restuarant etc on Saturday night
> > etc, BBC has shown some social groups have arranged a matrix of 10
> > to 20 faces from cameras on each of 10 to 20 screen, so groups can
> > chat virtualy, & drink localy @ home.
> >
> > That needs servers. Doubtless there are big commercial firms offering,
> > but if some of us think it may be interesting adding such software
> > to our FreeBSD servers for use by friends, Any reccomendations what
> > to add from ports/ ?
> >
> > Might it all be in https://www.freebsd.org/ports/multimedia.html
> > or more likely scattered ? Keywords to search with ?
> >
> > What about client apps on android, apple & MS
> > ('cos most friends are non tech & dont run BSD or Linux PCs etc)
> >
> > What about bandwidth per user, dont want to impact server hosts.
> >
> > If most of this has been asked before, an URL to a FAQ would be fine
> > thanks.
> >
> > Cheers
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