News from the Jitsi Community

Here’s the story of a lovely video layout and a powerful video engine that came together to form a new Brady Bunch style video layout: Each call participant’s individual video size is put into the […]

We have a new feature called off-stage layer suppression that helps save bandwidth and CPU for both end users and the Videobridge. To help handle the varying video qualities needed for the active speaker and […]

Hey all, we’ve been having plenty of questions so quick update: the recent news you have seen about Atlassian does not affect Jitsi. We are keeping course! So, have a great day everyone!

Jitsi Meet is composed of several components which work together for delivering the best video conferences, as you are used to already. When it comes to deploying these to production, there are, of course, many […]

In Yasen Pramatarov’s latest tutorial video, he walks through concepts on how to scale and load balance a Jitsi Meet install in the cloud:   Yasen uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an example, but […]

Yasen Pramatarov just released this third tutorial video. This one covers how to setup live streaming and recording using the Jibri module for Jitsi Meet. Jibri is a module that acts as a silent participant […]

The second in our series of video tutorials is now available. This one covers how to load balance Jitsi Meet with multiple Jitsi Videobridges like this: Load balancing is important for additional redundancy in production […]

Jitsi has a new Community Forum. Check it out at community.jitsi.org! This was way past due Previously we handled most of our community discussions via our Users and Dev mailing lists, which were originally setup […]

We are working on a new series of video tutorials. We are happy to announce the first one today – a step-by-step guide on how to setup Jitsi Meet on your own server. The video […]

It has been 3 years Atlassian became Jitsi’s new home! To help give us an objective view on our accomplishments and where we are going next, we asked Chad Hart of webrtcHacks to do a […]

If you have been following the Jitsi Meet development for some time, you might have noticed the sheer amount of git tags. We make tags for every successful build our CI makes, and also every […]

It’s that time of the year again! We are incredibly happy to have been chosen again as an organization for Google Summer of Code. After the tough process of choosing candidates and projects, here are […]

Did you ever think that all the features in Jitsi Meet kind of made you work too hard in order to find what you were really looking for? Was it in the side toolbar? Or […]

Calling out to all Jitsi users and aficionados! Please take a minute to make Jitsi better by answering 9 quick questions on our user survey: Help us improve the Jitsi community with your feedback. The […]

Hey everyone, Student applications for Google Summer of Code 2018 are now open. If you would like to apply with the Jitsi organization, please refer to this page for some useful tips. We encourage students […]

We were just alerted by @linuxlinks that we are the winner of their 2018 award for Best Open Source Video Conferencing Software. That’s always a pleasure for us and obviously a good reason for everyone to […]

It is happening! Again! Our friends at Google Summer of Code have graciously accepted us as a participant in the 2018 edition of the program! Dear students, all over the world, this is probably one […]

This would have been hard to believe a few years ago but, today, there are a number of cases where one could find themselves in an IPv6-only network. For example, accessing the Internet from some […]

With 2017 close to ending, we have one more Jitsi Meet mobile release for you! In this release we focused on two main areas: the welcome page and error handling. The welcome page has been […]

One of the most challenging problems in Video transport is the ability to determine exactly how much data exactly one can send without overwhelming their peer. In this video Emil talks about how machine learning […]

We are humbled to share that Jitsi Meet has won the Open Source Classic award at the DINAcon awards 2017, which took place in Bern (Switzerland) last Friday. The list of nominees was impressive, so […]

A good number of you have been setting up Jitsi Meet with authentication regardless of the fact that merely making sense of our tutorial on the subject is a notable act of heroism (anyone interested in […]

Another summer of code is behind us, and we’re here to present what our GSoC students accomplished throughout the program. We had four students this year, and three of them completed their projects while one […]

Our friends from Matrix have just finished their Jitsi integration and now have first class video conferencing support! Go Matrix!

We now have a working prototype of speech-to-text in jitsi-meet, implemented as part of jigasi. In this first version the transcribed text is just added to the chat, but a better interface is in the […]

Jitsi Meet has been available on mobile for some time now. The app works on both Android and iOS, and while it uses meet.jit.si to create conferences by default, it works with any custom Jitsi […]

If you are wondering, we use this for: “Peer-to-peer for 1 to 1″. It does what it says: every time there are only two participants in a call, instead of using Jitsi Videobridge, Jitsi Meet […]

Audio Only Mode in Jitsi Meet We often hear from our users that they’d like to have a low bandwidth mode. This is sometimes because they are on expensive satellite links that charge by the […]

We are already a month into the coding period of the Google Summer of Code 2017 program, and we are excited to report on our students’ progress so far. This year we are fortunate to […]

Yes! You heard, or rather, read that right . You can now call into meet.jit.si conferences. Just head out to your Jitsi Meet Contact List, then click on “Share the link” and use the telephone numbers and […]

Check out episode 651 the VoIP User’s Conference with Jitsi’s Saul Ibarra Corretge and Emil Ivov, for an update on Jitsi’s latest and greatest. And, of course, the call was hosted on Jitsi Meet. Try it […]

Alright Everybody, this is a big one! We have been at it for about 10 months now and we are really, really, really happy to now bring it to you. Adaptivity is all about getting Jitsi […]

Speaker Times in Jitsi Meet Ever felt like your standups are taking more time than they should be? Or maybe wondered whether you spoke for longer than you let your peers respond? Well, we certainly did! […]

Ever been in a situation where one of your contacts comes through really loudly, while another one is almost silent and you have to constantly play with your volume in order to have a productive […]

New layout for your 1:1s on meet.jit.si In the past people have often been confused about one specific aspect of our user interface: Notice how in both of the above cases there is a black […]

Yes! Jitsi Meet is now available for Android and iOS!!! Join your Jitsi Meetings from your phone!

After a break of a couple of years, Jitsi is once again proudly participating in Google Summer of Code! Check out our project ideas and let’s have fun together this summer (while you are getting […]

Check out what’s in and what’s coming for Jitsi in @saghul’s FOSDEM presentation.

In their Kranky/Geek video Emil and Lyubo share Jitsi’s experience building a WebRTC app, for mobile with React Native.

Checkout the new YouTube Live Streaming support on meet.jit.si and invite unlimited numbers of viewers to your conferences.

Tired of having to choose between 1080p and reasonable bandwidth consumption? The new simulcast support on meet.jit.si should make you happy then! Also run it yourself by installing Jitsi Meet and Jitsi Videobridge.

Want to share YouTube videos and watch them together with friends? Try the new meet.jit.si!

Interested in what video routers (SFUs) bring to your table? Check out Emil’s presentation from the Kranky/Geek event and also learn what simulcast and SVC are.

Following a contribution from Temasys, it is now possible to join meet.jit.si conferences through Safari and IE.

We are happy to announce that all projects in the Jitsi community are switching to the Apache License! Enjoy! 🙂

After a few months of hard work by Mozilla and Jitsi developers, both Firefox and Jitsi have added the missing pieces and can now work together! In this Mozilla Hacks post we’ll tell you more about the nitty-gritty details of our collaborative adventure.

We recently published a research paper about our “Last N” approach to videoconferencing. It describes how it all works and shows our evaluation based on the implementation in Jitsi Meet and Jitsi Videobridge.

The Jitsi Community just got a lot stronger! BlueJimp, founder of Jitsi, is now part of Atlasssian! The plan is to keep Jitsi at the cutting edge of innovation by keeping it open and in the hands of those who created it in the first place: the open source community.