With lots of unicorn. https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/install.html
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T249750 Install BBB on the cloud | |||
| Declined | None | T249749 Configure firewall for BBB instance | |||
| Resolved | Ladsgroup | T249748 Build an authentication system | |||
| Declined | None | T251010 Investigate building an out-of-the-box solution for installing BBB on debian |
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Blocked on https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/8861
We might end up using jtisi for now.
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Let me make some uncalled comments. :-)
I run BBB on the ancient ubuntu VM they want, as a separate system, and it runs fine (provided you firewall everything else). It performs much better than jitsi: rarely loses streams, rarely get stuck on video and can sustain 15-20 videostreams on a relatively small server (with lots of threads though: the VM has 18 cpu threads allowed). (As a sidenote it seems to be a client problem for jitsi.)
It must be noted that BBB uses freeswitch as a voice exchanger which is highly optimised for that, therefore the voice reliability is high and the voice capacity is probably above 100 participants or even more (maybe 1000s, for a moderate server with good connectivity).
There is one main point to support larger groups, and my server can't help it: the video exchanger (kurento media server) shall use hardware (GPU) encoding/decoding. Without it the supported video streams are limited since the server does the mixing. There are people running it with GPU support successfully and they say it works really well; unfortunately my server is a normal racked server without any fancy video card.
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@grin thanks for the information but the main blocker here is that we don't have ubuntu in the cloud (only debian) and it seems there's not a good support for bbb in debian. Do you experience with that?
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I have briefly looked at the packages and they don't seem to have impossible dependencies (apart from java8 but it's still available) and I may try to move it over to a debian, but it's not done yet.