On 2020-06-03 17:29:42 -0400 (-0400), Erik McCormick wrote: [...]
we managed a meeting of 20 people max (17 average) with no reported issues. Most of us kept our video off and that seemed to keep things running nice and smooth. I think most had the etherpad up on the screen a lot anyway, so didn't need video so much. All in all I think it was a very positive experience. [...]
Thanks for the feedback! We're definitely still hoping to better tune things, including talking to some other free/libre open source software communities who are running similar services to see if we can share and pool expertise in this area. We've made a couple of minor changes today during a break between sessions, but anyone with interest or experience in Jitsi-Meet is welcome to pitch in and help us polish it (our deployment automation and configuration is all in public Git repositories on opendev.org and driven by Zuul jobs). Unfortunately a lot of the video performance and CPU consumption has to do with how browsers have implemented their support for WebRTC API and standards, so will depend on browser maintainers improving efficiency to solve some of the user experience challenges. Seems video has been working well for small teams and people blessed with suitable hardware acceleration, but larger groups are best off just switching to "low bandwidth" mode and going audio-only for now (that doesn't block the shared Etherpad document). -- Jeremy Stanley