Jitsi Meet vs Zoom and Google Meet
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- Jitsi Meet Tutorial
How does the open-source Jitsi Meet stand up against Zoom or Google Meet?
I was pleasantly surprised by how polished Jitsi Meet was.
Excellent video quality a better feature list than Google Meet, but not quite up the standard set by Zoom.
Timestamps
2:22 - About Jitsi
2:53 - How to start a meeting
11:59 - Calendar integration
13:53 - Additional features
14:16 - How Jitsi makes money?
15:05 - Jitsi Demo
20:35 - Summary
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Timestamps
2:22 - About Jitsi
2:53 - How to start a meeting
11:59 - Calendar integration
13:53 - Additional features
14:16 - How is Jitsi make money?
15:05 - Jitsi Demo
Thank you for this. You mentioned you can stream Jitsi to Facebook. Can you explain how?
Do you know if anyone tried creating or developing an option to moderate as an admin with 'guest' speakers? If I want to say host some speakers for a panel and stream the jitsi out as a live broadcast? to be able to control the speaker rubrics and the background without participating in the actual feed, sort of like a director who just sits in the control room and is able to choose what it would look like? Is there a feature to add layers such as graphic banners? anyone had any experience with that? @dottotech
Great review!! love it!
Hi dottotech, What about vs MiroTalk SFU?
I used Zoom to do my classes.. 40 minute limit just kicks all of us out. I was searching for something like Jitsi. Glad to know more about Jitsi through the video.. Hats off !!
What about MiroTalk SFU?
I have looked at this and use it personally.
I have found that the limitations such as anyone being able to eject someone from the meeting disappear when you set up your own server.
And when you do that for a business, you can integrate it into your web page and phone apps.
When you consider the security gains, this beats Zoom.
one feature that Google Meet has that is lacking in Zoom and Jitsi is an option to turn Captions on or off - this makes Google Meet video conference a better choice for the deaf or hard of hearing
good point
You can switch on closed caption but you need to integrate Jitsi with Google speech recognition. Needs to fettling but it's a feature which is built in
I got a text from my sister-in-law that my wife's sisters--spread throughout the country--are planning to sing Happy Birthday to her via Jitsi. I had never heard of Jitsi and found this very informative video. I'm sold!
Before watching this I had never even heard of Jitsi! I showed this video to my team and we have decided to move from zoom to jitsi! thanks for sharing!!!!
WOW! Let me know how it works for you! I would love to be kept in the loop!
A quick note first: The trouble to join is an iOS problem, it happens to Zoom and all other apps because Apple doesn't trust them to give them permission to use Mic and/or Cam. Also, it is a ONE TIME grant permission thing from settings, you can do beforehand; and then you'll join in one click.
I am a HUGE fan of Zoom, but sorry if this sounds like cheating! I crush on HARD on smart things like this Jitsi app! It is so smart and amazing! I am thinking about using it to host guests into my AstroGate بوابة الفضاء channel. I share your videos everywhere Steve, you are my mentor and source for good productivity apps out there.
thanks so much for the tip Rami. good luck with the channel.
Thanks for the demo and discussion - very helpful. In early August I participated in a world-wide conference that was run using Jitsi, integrated into a [custom-built?] calendar-type web interface. Over 1800 people participated over 9 days (not all at the same time!) and overall it was a great success. It was for the international language, Esperanto, and our local (Australian) Esperanto Association is seriously thinking of using it for national conference in January 2021.
Thanks, Steve. I'm a solopreneur who hates paying for subscriptions when there is a free option! I really loved your tutorial and have now subscribed. I need to play around with the Google Calendar integration and providing future meeting links. This is going to be a great way for me to connect with clients. Keep up the great work!
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Steve Dotto, great Jitsi demo. I use free Zoom but was going to try Meet but now I will definitely try Jitsi after seeing how elegant it performed during your demo. Many thanks from a Moscow English/Maths now online teacher/tutor to Russians with at least Intermediate English. See you on your next demo.
Have fun!
Lol, it so true, I did a video on zoom and then comparing the three main tools and the content has become incredibly popular, I wasn't aware of Jitsi and I'm Canadian like yourself so I'm taking a look now. Happy that you had a positive experience with this open source program where you haven't in the past. Wow to all the other settings!!
Steve..... Thanks for introduce the jitsi...on right time.....
We really going try this for our group meets of 1985 school batch .....
Never heard of Jitsi. thanks for not only going through the interface, but for going into trouble to doing the test drive, testing different options and showing different scenarios of usage! Huge thanks!
Never heard of it before. It seems sooooo coool. Thanks for sharing and revealing it to us!
Excellent review! Thanks!
I have used Jitsi and Zoom.
The one issue I've had in Jitsi is that I can't become the administer and have sole control to prevent others from sharing screens, mute them, kick them out, etc. Maybe that's what everyone follow me does.
There are number of excellent open source programs and I'd love to see reviews of them.
Thanks Thomas, which other Open Source apps would you like to see?
That's something that bothered me too. I was hoping there was a way to do that.
@@dottotech For the most part I'm able to use the google suite for 95% of what I do. If I need Word compatibility I used the LibreOffice suite which is free and does an excellent job translating the macros and format of Word. As well once every couple of months I need a bit more sophisticated graphic tool (I used to use Corel Draw) to create a graphic or something. I used Inkscape, which is an amazing tool with great internet support and not the hefty price tag of Adobe. I'm fortunate to have a secretary who uses Publisher, but if I need to do something quick in the Publishing area I use Scribus. You might have already done a video on VLC which is use to view video content. I don't do video editing but there are several programs that would be good for those who are a couple times a year I need a blunt tool video editor folks like me.
Thanks for asking!
I droped in, by chance, when looking on youtube for jitsi experiences, and even tho english is not my native language, nevertheless i found myself whatching your youtube video from start to end, you got that way to talk that mesmerize people listening to what youre saying, keep up the good work.
I'm a Resarch intern in a Technological Center of my Country (Angola), and I heard about Jitsi from a sister of mine. Now, with your presentation, I'm fixed about the choice I had to make between Jitsi, Zoom and Teamlink. Today, I can tell you that I'll use Jitsi.
Thank's a lot !
Hi Steve, I have known about Jitsi for over a year now however I have not had the need to use it that much. Things have changed over the years and I will be using it more often than Zoom. I also wanted to let you know that you did an excellent job on your Jitsi review and that I subscribed to your you tube channel. I'm so glad you liked Jitsi and would like to stay in touch. I will be joining webinar Wednesday this week. Have a great week!!!
We have been using Jitsi for months with no problems. Excellent audio and video. I have the meeting link bookmarked so one click there then one click to allow mic and camera then one click to join meeting. -- -- -- I'm in like flint!
One of my students suggested it to me cus I was using the non-paid version of Zoom. Now, Im loving Jitzi. The video quality is amazing and the best of it is that is free.
Love this video. Someone talk to me today about this app and I was searching solid information about it, thanks you.. your video was my winner for understanding the app. Saludos, from Venezuela. I like your style.
Love reading this feedback! Thank you, Mayadhara.
Thank you for the introduction to Jitsi, I'll be using it in our future online meetings, keep up the good work.
Glad you like it!
Great video. Been trying to find something other than Skype, Google or zoom to have family conferences since I live abroad. Thanks again! Greetings from Sweden!
I watched the video in parts due to interruptions behind me, but I found your instructions great! Never heard of it before now. I am hoping family and friends will try it with me! Thanks!
Great to hear!
I really like your channel your videos are so enlightening, thank you. I used Jitsi first time last Sunday and it was really good. I am an avid user of Zoom and I think Zoom is great but like you I don't mind jumping onto a Jitsi meeting.
Great to hear!
Thanks 4the insight! I knew nothing about Jitsi. Glad to gain understanding but sticking with Zoom.....for now.
Had never heard of this program, but will definitely give it a try! Thanks!
Hope you like it!
I am a member of a computer club and we are using Not so for club meetings during lockdown. We are all impressed with it. Will share this with the other club members.
Cant trace 'Not so' on the web, Paul. Could you clarify, pls?
@@crossleydd42 I think that was autocorrect kicking in! Pretty sure he meant to type Jitsi....
@@m-ld3832 Ah, you must be using Autocorrect Translate, Angus!!! Thx.
I never heard of Jitsi. Looking forward to using
Very impressive. The only think I'm missing is Outlook integration and option to record meetings locally.
Brilliant review! Glad you decided to try it out. I had never heard of this platform before. Not sure how it is right now in 2021 but I'm definitely gonna be trying it out.
Yay, the project management app I use has a customized version of Jitsi built in. Great to learn more about it.
Excellent demonstration! Looking forward to more video conferencing demos on this program and more soon.
Hello how are you doing today 💝
very helpful and informative. Can't wait to try Jitsi.
Fun video! Good to get familiar with new web conferencing platforms, especially today. Nice job!
omg, I used to love your show as a kid!
I was researching video conference options for an amateur brass band (sort of) organisation I'm part of when I came across this video (ironically my search string was "google hangouts video conference demo") After seeing your video and checking out some of the comments I am going to try to push Jitsi, even though the person in charge wants me to try Zoom. I'm a big fan of open source and I agree it is not always end user friendly, but this may be a (the?) game changer. Edit to add: I'm using Brave with a shitton of addons and ad blockers and I love the fact that the Jitsi website isn't inundated with external scripts and trackers.
Hey Steve, another great presentation. One suggestion, have the participants using their smartphones change their camera from portrait view to landscape view before they log in. Be safe.
great tip
My son, living 300 kms away, has been bugging me to get this utility. I stumbled on this video today, and hoping my less than stellar technical skills will be up to the challenge. Looks less complicated than Zoom, which I haven't tried yet.
Hello how are you doing today 💝
This is an excellent video, well explained. Thank you from someone new to Jitsi.
Thank you ver much for this video! It's a nice app but people has to learn to use it! I had a bad experience with Jitsi as no one had a tutorial prior to the meeting and the host was kicking me out of the meeting all the time I was trying to help.
THANKS STEVE. I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF JITSI. I HAVE BEEN USING ZOOM FOR MEETINGS.
Thanks for the tutorial I am going to try this on my class tomorrow. thank you
Good luck!
If you are having trouble with app functionality try the 'Launch in web' option when you first open. You then get the desktop version (I prefer this to the app). (I use an Android phone/tablet, presume the same in iPhone/iPad).
Another great video! Keep it up, thanks!!
Jitsi has stolen my heart. Thank you for the review. I was looking for something like this and as I researched building one for my personal use, I discovered Jitsi meet. I don't like Zoom because of my privacy concern as it's got its root with China. The self-hosting is of particular interest to me. This has made my day! Thanks again. How I hadn't discovered this video for over a year is beyond me. Subscribed btw.
Glad I could help!
Great overview. Thanks much. What I'm finding with Jitsi that I don't with the others is that when you go to the link it opens the camera immediately. I'm used to getting a preview so I can make sure the camera is showing what I want it to before joining the session. I had an embarrassing moment with that one. Did I miss something? How can I set it up to give me a preview first? Also, I heard that, unlike the others, Jitsi allows multiple speakers to be heard at the same time. Is that true?
Excellent presentation. The Linux users group of which I am a member plans to try Jitsi at its next meeting. I am optimistic that the trial will be successful and that we will begin using Jitis as our standard video conferencing product. I was a little apprehensive about switching platforms, but your video cleared up my concerns.
Jitsi Meet is one thing you can do and implement on a on-premise setup. No need to go on meetings and do social distancing, great app!
Thanks for sharing your experience with Jitsi Meet!
Here it is almost a year after you make the video, and only now am I finding out about Jitsi... or you for that matter. Thank you for the intro to the ... I guess you would call it a web-app. New subscriber. :)
WOW, that looks awesome. I am very, very interested in this platform!!
Hello how are you doing today 💝
Thanks so much for this great video. I love Jitsi, but occasionally find a delay between picture and audio . . . the audio comes in late. Short of shutting down and clicking back in, is there a way to correct that? Warm thanks for any help.
looking at moving my video conf needs to this platform, as linux desktop users, this is great fit, GREAT content, thank you
You're welcome!
Hey Steve, thanks for this wonderful walktrhough. I wondered why you didn't talk about using Jitsi whith our own internal server (local network)
I have heard of Jitsi before, and there is bluejeans but I agree, it is better than Google Meet by far. As you said in an earlier video, there are extensions you can install on Chrome but jee whiz, not everyone has the ability to do that so you limit your particants if you rely on them getting extensions. I like push to talk and gridview.
I've found on the Mac (Catalina) is that with Safari & Firefox, screen sharing options are restricted to sharing the screen only. Using Chrome or Edge instead allows for sharing an application window and/or a browser tab.
Great video. Glad to see you gave Jitsi a look. One of Jitsi's limitations is it much prefers, if not requires Chrome browser. I have been able to get Opera and Firefox to work, but can be a bit temperamental. Keep up the great work!!
Thanks for the tips!
@@dottotech I use it on Vivaldi okay.
I've been using Jitsi for my book group for a month or two. Unless something's changed - don't have time to look now - it only works properly with the Chrome browser. It's worse than that though. I forgot this, clicked on the meeting link and it started in my default browser, Firefox. Then after 20 minutes it crashed, ouch! Enjoyed your presentation, thanks Steve.
Jitsi works with Chromium based browsers, that is, in addistion to Chrome, at least with Opera, Vivaldi, Brave and the new MS Edge. Unfortunatle not with Firefox, for explanations please see github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758#issuecomment-604463127.
@@ArneLarssonHfors Thanks for the link. I actually read the whole page from top to bottom. If I understand correctly a big part of the problem is FF not implementing some protocol correctly. They developed ways to work around that issue, but also pushed the FF team to resolve some of the issues causing problems for Jitsi. On april 21 they announced FF 76 should work much better. Also support for Safari is being worked on.
@@chrisvanextergem5170 So no Safari support yet. . . that's good to know.
Can we pin or enlarge the screen of one or two participants even though they are not speaking, as I have to hold yoga classes and I want to see closely the postures
It looks impressive, shall certainly give it a try.
the quality vs. Google Meet is far better in Jitsi and setup/layout as well - nice tool 👍
I agree, but it would be interesting to see how the quality holds up in larger meetings I wonder if google meat would maintain the quality where Jisi might drop off
Great video. Very usefuland valuable information.
many thanks 🙏
My pleasure. I'm glad it helped.
Never heard about it.But it's very interesting.
Great Video, Thank You. Our Dev team is building out a Dating Application and website for us and they had this software as the main video and audio option. I was asking about what it was, this video explains it in full detail, it seems like a good option.
I discovered this in March 2022. I'm wondering how the audio quality would sound if a person on the other end would use a proper microphone. Have you tested this if this would be interesting for Podcasters and if the audio quality is better than Zoom?
amazing analysis
I discovered that product when I was a freelancer is Paris. If I remember things well, the creator was a Bulgarian guy doing his Phd in in Strasbourg. (+/-2005) I was completely bashed by what this student had developed compared to the then expensive ruling Webex. I tried to convince some of my clients to stop shelling out money to Webex, but for the same reasons you mention Steve.... Open Source was not their cup of tea. At the end of the day I sold more consultancy implementing crappy proprietary Windows applications. Simply could not live on Linux and Open Source at that time
Great share! You are right about the origins I believe, sometime you just have to scratch your head and shrug your shoulders, then go with the flow.
Great review - I only started using Jitsi recently, when I joined a certain online tech community that's heavily orientated towards open source, and I have to say I'm very impressed. The only things I don't like about Jitsi is that its virtual backgrounds don't work very well, and the user interface isn't quite as clean as Zoom.
Thanks for sharing!
how can i add jitsi in my wix website?I would like to generate automatically on every booking from customers a link with jitsi.
Your last comment it doesn't replace Zoom, can you please elaborate more around that and why? I really dislike Zoom which I wont go into here. I have also been looking at Jami, so would be interested in your view on this other Opensource option.
Awesome explanation
Thank you for the video in Jitsil
The download option from Jitsi is for the Apple App Store and that has no link to Mac OS, only for iPhone, iPad and iWatch.
Hey Steve, I asked about Jitsi and you delivered. Thanks. Any free vidoeconference software include breakout rooms ? Cheers.
Not that I know of
great video.thx
Hello, two things I can't see is that I can't use a green screen and the other that is very important too, is that I need my participants not seen each other, as I am teaching fitness classes and I don't want people to see each other, do you know if I can do those two things with this platform? thanks for the video.
Hello, thank you for your brilliant explanation. I am going host meeting next week and I want to know if I can share my screen to with the others. What is time limit? Thank you.
no time limit
Hello! Thank you so much for the informative video. For some reason, I don't see the option (the "i" icon) which would generate a link to share on TH-cam. Any thoughts on that?!
Hello how are you doing today 💝
Great video.
Always love you voice.
Please
Very interesting! Does the Jitsi mobile app require attendees to create an account or can they join a meeting like Zoom without having to create an account?
Just connect
Hello Mr S is there a timelimit? and can you like in zoom take a portion of the screen to show? Thanks for allways good videos
no time limit. thanks!
No imits of any type, many screen sharing options but I keep mine simple and share my whole 2nd monitor so no notifications appear and whatever I want to show is as easy as moving it to my 2nd monitor.
Any option to control audience mic and cam? Thank you
Can you make it to upload the video to the cloud from the presenter?
Or save it?
Great avideo, Steve.
hello, my jitsi does not have a streaming to facebook only to youtube, do you know how to get that option?
Are these features for Jitsi possible to do on mobile too
Is there a way to test it out first before inviting people to chat
On iOS, it’s a one-time thing to have to grant permission for the camera use.
Same for iPadOS and macOS too. But this is a plus to me. I had to use Skype for three workshops I recently had to attend virtually and the fact that the presenter can turn cameras off and on without asking you bugs me and I hate being on camera or being photographed, so I just didn't allow Skype access to my MacBook's camera, just the microphone.
I like Jiti and have been using it a bit. Its biggest limitation (at least for my usage) is that smartphone users can't share their screens. They are working on this so hopefully corrected soon. I do hate that the default option on the public server doesn't request user's names on joining a meeting (so stupid).
Thank you for this demonstration. Two comments / questions:
1) From what I could see, anyone can kick anyone else out of a Jitsi meeting. Is this still true? Cannot the person initiating the meeting control this at least?
2) I deal with a number of older people and the problems with non-Chrome type browsers is a serious limitation. We kept getting "browser not supported" messages from those using Firefox. Is there any cure to this shortcoming as yet?
Thanks to all the commentators for their inputs.
I've read somewhere that Jitsi works okay with most browsers, but not Firefox.
@@crossleydd42 If this is true, it is a serious limitation, especially for my family, as I have pushed them into Firefox for quite some time. This seems a real shame, because otherwise this appears to be an excellent communications program.
@@AllanAppel1948 Sadly, Allan, incompatibility is a typical situation with computing. Here's an example which illustrates the scenario to your family.
Hi...!!! Steve...I'm just starting to go deepen with all these new Conferences tools, like ZOOM, GOOGLE MEET, AND JITSI....could you please tell Me which one do I have to choose to prepare or make classes online...??
Thanks for your soon and cordial reply...Regards.... CARLOS SANTANA from CHILE..
my order of preference is
zoom
Jitsi
meet
Yesterday i was invited to a product presentation from a goverment organisation vía Skype / Skype Web (Skype was ordered by the organisation). It was a desaster. Fortunatly we have our own jtsi-server and we switched then over to jitsi and the product presentation could go on.
I think it is important to say that Jitsi has a modul for "moderators" (prosody configuration). So, only users with mod-rights can create a conference and invite others to the conf (In this case you don't need an extra password for the conference). It's fine when you have 20+ users connected - as we use it for educational purposes. Moderators can close the mics of all or all except one or one user only, can kick out other users for example.
which calendar do you recomend
Google Meet also allows you to share your tabs via the Cast tab feature now which includes audio - rather than screen sharing, etc. Works quite well. But I prefer Jitsi.
Nice tip, thanks Shane!
Does Jitsi allow one to share one’s screen? Hope there is no time limit on this like Zoom
I just discovered the tool today (outdated me!), is it still as powerfull as it is stated in the video? I am coming from Google Meet and I think the tool is better for my use as it allows sharing the audio of the system as well.
If anyone would give me a feedback before I stick to the tool, it would be highly appreciate.
calendly could be used with jitsi?
I really like your video! I just used jitsi tonight and noticed that the sound may be a problem...like when I talk, people who are using phones can hear the echos, of course I can too. I don't remember this happened in zoom before. Would love to hear more about it... Perhaps it will be good to have people use headphones?
Were there any speakers close to you that may have caused the echoes?
@@dottotech Thanks for your response. i think the fact that some of us didn't use headphones might have caused the echos...
Perhaps the discussion on this forum can help you find the potential issue: community.jitsi.org/t/echo-cancellation/15492/10
Will you be doing a demo of creating a jitsi meet server ?
As others have mentioned, the big downside to Jitsi is that it only works reliably in the Chrome browser, so that will be a limiting factor for some users if they aren't amenable to using Chrome.
@Australian_888 Brave is Chromium under the hood so it will work the same that Chrome