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Lightest-weight video conferencing?

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  • N [email protected]

    Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn't have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

    My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that's ok.

    For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I've tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

    Thank you!

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    Can you post some hardware specs? In general, the local client is going to use similar resources as a browser session since it's just a repacking of the same software in most cases unless it's horribly handled. Slack comes to mind in this instance.

    Some details about what the actual issues are might be helpful as well.

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    • N [email protected]

      Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn't have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

      My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that's ok.

      For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I've tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

      Thank you!

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      Maybe Mirotalksfu or galene?

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      • N [email protected]

        Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn't have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

        My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that's ok.

        For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I've tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

        Thank you!

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        I don't have a comparison against alternatives, but have you tried Jitsi Meet? it's open source and the client app can run in a web browser. If your DE of choice can run firefox smoothly, a jitsi meet session might run just fine for you. There's a free server you can test with at https://meet.jit.si/

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        • N [email protected]

          Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn't have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

          My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that's ok.

          For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I've tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

          Thank you!

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          "Somehow"

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          • N [email protected]

            Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn't have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

            My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that's ok.

            For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I've tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

            Thank you!

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            Galene is webRTC based, but very lightweight.

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            • J [email protected]

              Can you post some hardware specs? In general, the local client is going to use similar resources as a browser session since it's just a repacking of the same software in most cases unless it's horribly handled. Slack comes to mind in this instance.

              Some details about what the actual issues are might be helpful as well.

              N This user is from outside of this forum
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              One is a Pinebook Pro, which is an RK3399 processor. Another is a Surface Go 2 with an Intel Pentium Gold Processor 4425Y.

              The actual issue is that the video conferencing works, but trying to do anything else is just suuuper slow. Well, the Surface Go 2 is actually fairly good as long as I'm not touching the ZRAM. But, trying to share a window in Google Meet will always involve a lot of waiting. Firefox and Chromium seem equivalent on the Surface, but the Pinebook seems better in Chromium lately.

              I can bare-bones most apps I use on these laptops, but for video conferencing it seems like I have to drag along a whole browser.

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              • N [email protected]

                Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn't have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

                My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that's ok.

                For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I've tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

                Thank you!

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                Maybe <some video player> to /dev/video0 and then VNC?

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                • N [email protected]

                  Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn't have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

                  My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that's ok.

                  For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I've tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

                  Thank you!

                  sturgist@lemmy.caS This user is from outside of this forum
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                  Somehow I collect low-powered laptops.

                  Don't lie to us. It's not a mystery. I can almost guarantee 80%+ of the people in this thread have something they both collect and pretend it's a mystery/weird that they do.

                  I used to collect fixed blade knives. Had to give them away when I moved to the UK, not worth the hassle if I was asked about it.

                  Now I have the start of a collection of old mini-synths that I keep meaning to circuit bend but never get around to.

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                  • N [email protected]

                    One is a Pinebook Pro, which is an RK3399 processor. Another is a Surface Go 2 with an Intel Pentium Gold Processor 4425Y.

                    The actual issue is that the video conferencing works, but trying to do anything else is just suuuper slow. Well, the Surface Go 2 is actually fairly good as long as I'm not touching the ZRAM. But, trying to share a window in Google Meet will always involve a lot of waiting. Firefox and Chromium seem equivalent on the Surface, but the Pinebook seems better in Chromium lately.

                    I can bare-bones most apps I use on these laptops, but for video conferencing it seems like I have to drag along a whole browser.

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                    Can you just stream video and audio directly, like a standard IP camera? This list of solutions in the Raspberry Pi documentation could have some ideas - https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/camera_software.html#stream-video-over-a-network-with-rpicam-apps (there are some RPi specific solutions, but also general Linux approaches e.g. ffplay)

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                    • N [email protected]

                      Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn't have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

                      My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that's ok.

                      For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I've tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

                      Thank you!

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                      I somehow collect old laptops too, fellow non-collector. Gotta stop this hobby before it gets out of control.

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