Jitsi, an excellent open source multiplatform videoconferencing application

Recently fThe launch of the new version has been announced video conferencing clientto Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0, which is a version of Jitsi Meet packaged in a separate app. Jitsi Meet is a JavaScript application that uses WebRTC and it can work with servers based on Jitsi Videobridge (a gateway for transmitting video streams to video conference participants).

Jitsi meet supports features such as transferring the contents of the desktop or windows individual, automatically switch to the active speaker's video, co-edit documents on Etherpad, show presentations, broadcast the lecture on YouTube, audio conferencing mode, the ability to connect participants through the Jigasi phone portal, password protection.

As well as also the "can talk at the push of a button" mode, sending invitations to connect to the conference in the form of URLs and the ability to exchange messages in a text chat.

All data streams transmitted between client and server are encrypted (It is understood that the server is operating at its own capacity).

From the characteristics of the application, local storage of video conferencing settings is observed, an integrated update delivery system, remote control tools and a pinning mode on top of other windows.

It is also highlighted that supports various operating systems, including Windows, as well as UNIX-like systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD and also includes:

• Transfer of attended and / or blind calls.
• Automatic "away" change.
• Self-reconnection
• Call recording.
• Encryption with SRTP and ZRTP protocols.
• Conference calls.
• Establishment of direct media connection through ICE protocol.
• Desktop streaming.
• Storage of encrypted passwords with a master password.
• File transfer for XMPP, AIM / ICQ services, Windows Live Messenger Service, Yahoo!
• Instant Messaging Encryption with Off-the-Record Messaging.
• IPv6 support for SIP and XMPP.
• Releo (relaying) of media with TURN protocol.
• Message Waiting Indicator (RFC 3842).
• Voice and video calls using SIP and XMPP protocols, with H.264, H.263, VP8 for video encoding.
• Broadband telephony with G.722 and Speex.

What's new in version 2.0?

Of the innovations of version 2.0, stands out the ability to share access to the sound played on the system. Besides that the dependencies were updated, fixing security problems, but there are still some pending.

And is that there is a known problem which prevents the application from starting on some Linux distributions. But for this the developers provide A solution for now is that the following command should be executed:

sudo sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1

Or alternatively you can run the application with the following command:

./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage --no-sandbox

How to install Jitsi on Ubuntu and derivatives?

For those who are interested in being able to install this video conferencing application, they should follow the instructions that we share below.

By default, developers offer different packages for Linux installation, of which for Ubuntu we can make use of a repository to install the application or use the AppImage package.

For those who prefer to use the repository, they only have to open a terminal and in it they will type the following.

First we are going to download the public key from the repository and we are going to add it to the system with:

 wget -qO - https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

Later we will add the repository to the system with the following command:

 sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.jitsi.org stable/' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list"

The list of repositories on your system will automatically refresh. But in case it doesn't happen, you can do it with:

sudo apt update

And finally the application is installed with the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install jitsi

Last for those who prefer the AppImage file, they can obtain this by typing in the terminal the following command:

wget https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/download/v2.0.0/jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage

Execute permissions are given to the file with:

sudo chmod +x jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage

And you can run the application by double clicking on the file or from the terminal with:

./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage --no-sandbox

To find more installation packages or the links to install on mobile devices, you can find them In the following link.