Overview
What is Jitsi Meet?
Jitsi is a set of Open Source projects that allow users to build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. Jitsi Meet is an Open Source WebRTC JavaScript application that uses Jitsi Videobridge to provide high quality, scalable video conferences. Jitsi…
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A tool that makes initiation of an online meeting easy
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What is Jitsi Meet?
Jitsi is a set of Open Source projects that allow users to build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. Jitsi Meet is an Open Source WebRTC JavaScript application that uses Jitsi Videobridge to provide high quality, scalable video conferences. Jitsi is an 8x8 trademark.
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Jitsi is a versatile video conferencing tool that has found multiple use cases among organizations and individuals. Users have relied on Jitsi as a go-to tool for quick, low-impact conversations with teammates, serving as a cost-effective alternative to popular platforms like Zoom and Go-To-Meeting. It has been particularly useful for organizations on a budget or non-profit organizations, enabling video conferencing with small groups. With its secure platform, Jitsi ensures the safety of conversations and recordings, making it a preferred choice for businesses during the COVID-19 lockdown to conduct meetings and training remotely.
The software's simplicity and small memory size make it productive for taking classes and arranging uninterrupted meetings. Users appreciate the ease of joining multiple meetings with multiple participants simultaneously, while also valuing Jitsi for its stability, effectiveness, and easy configuration. Jitsi serves as a complete solution for remote teams to communicate and collaborate effectively, enabling internal meetings, creating chat rooms, and facilitating quick calls within teams. Its integration with Slack makes it a convenient choice for business meetings and remote work scenarios. Moreover, Jitsi finds application in various industries, from customer service technical support calls to secure communication in risk-prone environments such as connecting with independent media organizations or journalists. Overall, Jitsi provides a safe and reliable means for corporations, non-profits, remote teams, and individuals to connect, collaborate, and communicate effectively.
Versatility and Constant Evolution: Users highly appreciate the versatility and constant evolution of the Jitsi platform. They have found it to be a nice and organized tool, which is why they highly recommend Jitsi.
Free Access during COVID-19 Pandemic: The fact that Jitsi offered free access during the COVID-19 pandemic was highly valued by users. This gesture was greatly appreciated by many users who needed reliable video conferencing solutions during this challenging time.
Good Online Group Meeting Experience with Strong Security Measures: Users found the online group meeting experience with Jitsi to be good. They specifically praised the strong security measures implemented by Jitsi during end-to-end meetings online. This has provided them with peace of mind knowing that their conversations are secure.
Difficult to Keep Up with Updates: Some users have found it challenging to keep up with the frequent updates and changes to the code base, which has made it hard to follow.
Stability Issues and Connectivity Problems: Users have experienced stability issues and difficulties when connecting using the Jitsi app. They have reported occasional slowness, lagging problems, disconnections, video quality issues, audio drops, and inconsistent performance.
Limited Features and Customization Options: Some users mentioned that Jitsi lacks certain advanced features such as scheduling, analytics, file sharing option, voice chatting in offline mode, direct solutions for certain technologies like Unity Game Engine. Additionally, they found customization to require certain expertise.
Users highly recommend Jitsi for its great features, affordability, and ability to solve problems. They also suggest using Jitsi for formal meetings as it is a clientless videoconferencing app that is easy to set up and use. Another common recommendation is to give Jitsi a try for secured video conferencing needs as it offers a fluid communication experience with quality videos. Additionally, users appreciate Jitsi's compatibility with popular brand devices and its handiness, ease of use, reliability, high performance, stability, and innovative features.
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- Video conference
- Chat
- Screen sharing
- Audio and video control
- Background changes
- Customization on top of the base product
- Scalability in terms of participation
- End point hardware improvement
- Stability of core
- Video quality while load generates
- High quality audio
- 50%5.0
- High quality video
- 70%7.0
- Low bandwidth requirements
- 80%8.0
- Mobile support
- 100%10.0
- Desktop sharing
- 80%8.0
- Whiteboards
- 80%8.0
- Calendar integration
- 100%10.0
- Meeting initiation
- 100%10.0
- Integrates with social media
- 80%8.0
- Record meetings / events
- 80%8.0
- Slideshows
- 80%8.0
- Live chat
- 90%9.0
- Audience polling
- 90%9.0
- Q&A
- 90%9.0
- User authentication
- 80%8.0
- Participant roles & permissions
- 80%8.0
- Confidential attendee list
- 90%9.0
- Scalability
- Stability of base platform
- Great community support
- Continued enhancement by community
Value for money
- Hosting meetings
- Sharing screen
- Business call
- Personal call
- Screen sharing is fluctuating which can be improved
- It consumes a lot of bandwidth even while text sharing via screen share
- Video quality can be improved for video calls
- High quality audio
- 90%9.0
- High quality video
- 70%7.0
- Low bandwidth requirements
- 70%7.0
- Mobile support
- 70%7.0
- Desktop sharing
- 100%10.0
- Whiteboards
- 90%9.0
- Calendar integration
- N/AN/A
- Meeting initiation
- 100%10.0
- Integrates with social media
- 80%8.0
- Record meetings / events
- N/AN/A
- Slideshows
- 90%9.0
- Live chat
- 90%9.0
- Audience polling
- N/AN/A
- Q&A
- N/AN/A
- User authentication
- 90%9.0
- Participant roles & permissions
- 90%9.0
- Confidential attendee list
- N/AN/A
- During this global pandemic, it has been a very useful tool for setting up meetings and getting on with everyday office work.
- Good quality audio to have a online phone call with anyone.
- Google Hangouts Meet and Zoom
- Background changing
- Screen sharing
- Secure meeting room
- Easy to join
- Improve the quality of video during screen sharing, especially when we are sharing only test content.
- It consumes a lot of bandwidth if we share our screen as well as open the camera.
- High quality audio
- 80%8.0
- High quality video
- 60%6.0
- Low bandwidth requirements
- 60%6.0
- Mobile support
- 90%9.0
- Desktop sharing
- 70%7.0
- Meeting initiation
- 100%10.0
- Integrates with social media
- 60%6.0
- Live chat
- 100%10.0
- Q&A
- 80%8.0
- User authentication
- 100%10.0
- Participant roles & permissions
- 70%7.0
- All in all, jitsi has made the communication between team members easy. Hosting a small meeting is not that difficult so people wo are working from home do not hesitate to start a meet whenever they feel needed.
- Remote working is not possible without proper communication and jitsi has been used for communication in my organization. So, it has been a very usefull tool for us.
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