#Jitsi meet rooms install#
#Jitsi meet rooms software#

Note that this is as close to video processing as Jitsi gets – all the encoding and decoding is handled on the user side.Īt the heart of it all the Prosody XMPP server keeps all these components and users connected. This uses the XMPP (like Jabber) and WebRTC (like Google Meet) protocols to swiftly route video to call participants.ĭeciding which participant is the speaker, and hence who users see ‘focussed’ on their screens, is handled by Jicofo (Jitsi Conference Focus). The magic of connecting more than two participants is handled by Jitsi VideoBridge (JVB).

#Jitsi meet rooms software#

Most of the software is written in Java, so keen-eyed dependency spotters will note the OpenJDK runtime making an appearance.

#Jitsi meet rooms install#

If you have a domain, the install process can automatically generate Let’s Encrypt certificates, and then no one needs to see any security warnings.Ī Jitsi install is in fact a collection of several components, all working in harmony to bring bright smiley faces closer in a world that grows ever more distant.įirstly, it relies on a web server (and some pretty wild JavaScript) to provide the web frontend.

But it’s probably easier in that case to have an in-person (where’s the fun in that?–Ed) conversation rather than involving the machines. If you’re happy for you and your users to see these warnings (or brave enough to add an exception to your browser), and your users are all local, you can get away with using a bogus domain name and fudging users’ /etc/hosts files to resolve this to your machine. Not only does it have to wrangle the vagaries of streaming through NAT gateways (such as home routers), it also needs to keep all this secure with SSL, so if you cheat and use a self-signed certificate, your users will see scary warnings. As you can imagine (and we’ll look at this in a moment if you can’t), under the bonnet Jitsi is a rather complicated affair. You will need a domain name though a free one from a dynamic DNS service such as DuckDNS or Dyndns will work.