[BozemanLUG] May meeting?

[Robert Potter]

I was not able to join in, but I am curious how well did this work for
everyone?

Rob

On Thu, May 7, 2020, 10:22 AM Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I set up a Jitsi server on a Digital Ocean droplet last night... and I'm
> going to try and use it for the meeting tonight.  Being on Digital Ocean,
> it should have plenty of bandwidth... and I *THINK* such a setup acts as a
> video bridge where the input streams from all participants are muxed into a
> single output stream that is sent to each participant.  Without that
> bridging there'd be as many streams as there are users... which would be
> very limiting.
>
> I have pretty limited bandwidth at my house... 4MB/down, 500KB/up.  I'm on
> a discounted Spectrum plan... AND I have three other people in my household
> and probably 10+ devices in the house that could be using bandwidth.
>
> Given the quality of my bandwidth (and I think Gary's is about as bad), I
> don't really expect fantastic results and here are my tips for the 7 PM
> meeting tonight:
>
> 1) While it might be nice to see everyone all the time, I'm guessing it'll
> negatively impact the meeting so... mute your webcam and microphone unless
> you are the active person
>
> 2) Set your webcam quality for low resolution.  Most of us have less than
> 1080p displays.  The laptop I use has a max resolution of 1366x768 so
> sending me a 1080p display is not only going to waste bandwidth, it most
> likely requires additional computational work to rescale it.  Where do you
> change those settings?  I'm not sure... but the Jitsi web interface does
> have a slider for webcam video quality so that's where I'd start.
>
> 3) We'll also be in the IRC channel (#ubuntu-montana on Freenode) during
> the meeting as a backup if and when the video conference goes bad.
>
> 4) Screensharing - we will probably be doing some screensharing... and if
> your display is 1080p, 2.5K or 4K, you are going to nuke the bandwidth.
> During the video conference, I'd recommend resizing your display to
> whatever resolution you have that is close to 720p.
>
> If we have good results, then we can consider upping things or being less
> resource frugal in future meetings.
>
> The URL for the meeting will be:
> https://jitsi.montanalinux.org/BozemanGLUG
>
> I have Jitsi requiring authentication to start a meeting and I'm currently
> the only person with an account... so that URL won't exist until I make it
> tonight... and only after I have started it, will anyone be able to join.
> Stay tuned for a go/no-go email this evening.
>
> TYL,
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