[Free-RTC] Getting video-calls to work

Bas Wijnen wijnen at debian.org
Wed Oct 9 18:54:49 CEST 2013


(Sorry for breaking the thread, I seem to have accidentilly deleted the
messages from my mailbox.)

On 29 Sep 2013 20:50, "Bas Wijnen" <wijnen at debian.org> wrote:

> > > You can also try using http://jit.si to get a feel for how all this
> > > works.
> >
> > Is that just a free XMPP server?
> 
> Yes, with a Jingle Nodes relay.

That would be "No, it's more". ;-)

> > I don't need that, I have prosody running on my own host now,
> 
> and according to your reports the setup dedn't seem to be working out that
> well.

Fair enough, although prosody seems to be doing fine.

> I suggested you try jit.si to see if that gets you what you need. If it
> does, it would provide a working setup that you can then use as a basis for
> your own deployment.

Yes, I just didn't see how it would make a difference.  But now I do, and
anyway I tried it, but it doesn't work at all: I've created a user, and so has
my friend.  When I try to send a message or add her to my roster, jitsi for
some reason seems to strip off the @jit.si suffix and then complains that the
host cannot be found.  Predictably, no indication of any of this is visible on
the other side.

I've tried using gajim as well (which is the only client that at least works
between two machines on the same LAN), and I'm not sure what the result was,
but since on one side gajim doesn't recognize the camera and microphone I
didn't spend much time on it.  Actually, jitsi has the same problem.

> Also, you might want to run with Jitsi's default config. As explained,
> disabling things because you believe them to be related to Google, could
> very well be breaking the whole thing for you.

Yes, I enabled everything after the explanation, but it didn't help.

Thanks,
Bas


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