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Videoconferencing server software?

Posted on June 9, 2014

Hi all,

I’m wondering if it is possible to setup a videoconferencing server, much like Google Hangout? I’ve heard lots of buzz around WebRTC, but little concrete seems to be coming from it in solutions I could setup on a droplet.

So, is something like this possible? I’m currently running Ubuntu 14.04 and Nginx.



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I haven’t seen much in the way of solutions that are ready to use out of the box just yet. Though there are a number of demos available:

https://github.com/muaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment https://github.com/keithnorm/simple-webrtc-video-chat

At this point is seems like you’d need to roll your own solution.

In case anyone else is looking for such software: Jitsi Meet is exactly doing this! You can find more info here: https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitMeet

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