[Cialug] Video Conferencing

[Scott Yates]

I have never successfully gotten it to work for a meeting.


On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:15 PM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:

> When we used hangouts and meet alot, it always seemed like about half of
> the end users had trouble getting into the meeting.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:30 PM Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Seconding the zoom browser. There is a setting you can add that will give
> > you the browser prompt at load time (the account we use for lug is
> already
> > doing this). There is also a zoom for linux app and it worked just fine
> on
> > the latest Ubuntu.
> > I have seen issues with Hangouts/Meet and video streams in low
> > bandwidth conditions but no crashes.
> > Facebook group video works aweful on computers, but ok on phones but
> again
> > the video is rough.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:21 AM Brett Neese <brneese at brneese.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Zoom has a browser client:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443-Zoom-Web-Client?mobile_site=true
> > >
> > > People use it because it's the only one that doesn't randomly crash or
> > bug
> > > out that regular people can figure out how to use with the features
> users
> > > want.
> > >
> > > The UX for the others is awful.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 10:00 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I swear to friggin' frick'n'frack I am going to lose it. Why???? Is
> it
> > so
> > > > friggin' hard?????? To use a video conferencing service that supports
> > > > Linux?????
> > > >
> > > > There are *plenty* of services out there that will work on whatever
> > > > operating system or browser you have. But nooooo...... everyone has
> to
> > > use
> > > > crap like GoToMeeting and Zoom. I found a top-ten list on TechRadar
> of
> > > > video conferencing software. Out of the ten, five of them run on
> Linux!
> > > > Some of them are even free!
> > > >
> > > > Those five are:
> > > >
> > > > * BlueJeans
> > > > * Microsoft Teams
> > > > * Google Meet
> > > > * ClickMeeting
> > > > * BigBlueButton
> > > >
> > > > At my employer, roughly 40% of employees run Linux on their
> > workstations.
> > > > And yet people in the company still routinely send out requests from
> > > > GoToMeeting. Vendor calls are almost always that or Zoom or Webex.
> Bah!
> > > >
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