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Pyrite – open-source video conferencing

by jvanveen on 2/19/22, 4:18 PM with 43 comments

  • by drudoo on 2/19/22, 4:31 PM

    Not really sure what this offers compared to Jitsi. The author says Jitsi is complicated, but my company switched to onprem jitsi at the start of covid and it's been a pretty smooth ride (5000+ users).

  • by rcarmo on 2/19/22, 6:31 PM

    The most interesting thing for me is actually the galene server, but playing around with the demo server and looking at the documentation it seems to be a fair bit behind Jitsi in ease of use and deployment.

    (I built a one-shot template to deploy and run Jitsi on Azure - https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-ubuntu-jitsi - and it's been trivial to maintain over the past two years, for a small group of friends and monthly "open sessions")

    I'm not enamored of the Pyrite UI (again, Jitsi seems simpler), but I'll keep an eye on both.

  • by greazy on 2/19/22, 10:42 PM

    Something that is desperately missing from video conferencing software is walkie-talkie-like interface and capabilities that allow for stop-start convos. This might seem silly but it would help tremendously for those in developing countries.

    Lots of our collaborators are in developing countries with terrible internet, so we end up resorting to video chat + phone call.

  • by synergy20 on 2/20/22, 12:35 AM

    So Pyrite is a vue3 frontend to Galene the video conference backend. I do like go's easy of deployment.

    desktop it appears to be nice, on Android the UI is barely usable, is this a desktop-only UI so far?

  • by ataylor32 on 2/19/22, 11:44 PM

    Not to be confused with https://github.com/microsoft/pyright

  • by goldbattle on 2/19/22, 7:49 PM

    It would really help if the author had a list of "features" on the github project. It is a bit difficult to figure out what exact functionality the project supports.

    * https://github.com/garage44/pyrite/

  • by throwaway81523 on 2/19/22, 7:27 PM

    Besides this vs Jitsi, I wonder if there is a tldr about how Zoom managed to capture so much of this space.