sharper / jitsi-videobridge

Jitsi Videobridge is a WebRTC compatible video router or SFU that lets build highly scalable video conferencing infrastructure (i.e., up to hundreds of conferences per server).

Intro

Jitsi Videobridge is an XMPP server component that allows for multiuser video communication. Unlike the expensive dedicated hardware videobridges, Jitsi Videobridge does not mix the video channels into a composite video stream, but only relays the received video channels to all call participants. Therefore, while it does need to run on a server with good network bandwidth, CPU horsepower is not that critical for performance.

You can find documentation in the doc/ directory in the source tree.

Running it

You can download binary packages for Debian/Ubuntu:

• stable (instructions)
• testing (instructions)
• nightly (instructions)

Maven assembly binaries:

• assemblies

Or you can clone the Git repo and run the JVB from source using maven.

HOST="Your XMPP server hostname/IP address goes here."
DOMAIN="The JVB component name goes here."
PORT="the component port of your XMPP server goes here."
SECRET="The secret or password for the JVB component."
JVB_HOME="The path to your JVB clone."

mvn compile exec:exec -Dexec.executable=java -Dexec.args="-cp %classpath org.jitsi.videobridge.Main --domain=\"${DOMAIN}\" --host=\"${HOST}\" --port=\"${PORT}\" --secret=\"${SECRET}\" -Djava.library.path=$JVB_HOME/lib/native/linux-64 -Djava.util.logging.config.file=$JVB_HOME/lib/logging.properties -Dnet.java.sip.communicator.SC_HOME_DIR_NAME=.jitsi-videobridge "