The Jami conferencing system

# · ✸ 81 · 💬 30 · 2 years ago · jami.net · zaik · 📷
Since Jami doesn't rely on external services or machines, at least one participant has to do the mixing/combining of the video feeds for everyone, with a goal of minimizing the bandwidth usage for as many participants as possible. Moderators have the power to mute/unmute participants, change the conference video layout, promote others to moderators, and kick participants from the conference. "Make all participants moderators", which is on by default, makes every participant in the conference a moderator. We recently implemented "Raise hand" for Jami to cover these important use-cases, and help participants and hosts/moderators better coordinate and communicate in meetings. Muting participants is an important feature in all the conferences and because you can be interrupted by a private call both the participant and the moderator must be able to control the microphone. If a participant mutes their microphone, the moderator will not be able to unmute them, and if a moderator mutes a participant then they will not be able to unmute themselves either. For the time being, while it's possible to have multiple hosts in a conference, doing so would result in suboptimal video layouts, even though the Jami client applications have enough information to correctly render the participants in a call.
The Jami conferencing system



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