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How to Scale Jitsi Meet

Person sitting on their bed, having a video conference on their laptop
~ Martin Bock

In today’s world, video conferencing is getting more and more important – be it for learning, business events or social interaction in general. Most people use one of the big players like Zoom or Microsoft Teams, which both have their share of privacy issues. However, there is an alternative approach: self-hosting open-source software like Jitsi Meet. In this article, we are going to explore the different scaling options for deploying anything from a single Jitsi server to a sharded Kubernetes cluster.

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Livestreaming with libav* – Tutorial (Part 1)

~ Benjamin Binder

Green screen live streaming production at Mediehuset København. Author: Rehak

Lifestreaming is the real deal of video today, however there aren’t that many content creation tools to choose from. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are pushing hard to enable their users to stream vlogging-style content live from their phones with proprietary Apps, and OBS is used for Let’s Plays and Twitch streams. But when you want to stream events or lectures you are pretty much on your own.

In this series of posts I want to share the experiences I gained over the past couple of weeks while writing an application that captures video and audio and creates a simple livestream. This application is designed to be the basis of a simple streaming desktop application.  Continue reading →