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That's right. Although I tried to setup self hosted both BBB and Jitsi Meet, and was not rally satisfied. Both had quite some problems with audio and video streams, which either didn't start or froze later. I think that both software are better than I could setup, because I've seen them working pretty good, but I'm not sure what is the secret ingredient.

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The secret sauce in jitsi is NAT traversal so make sure you don’t have an overzealous firewall on the hosting server. Second it relies on google STUN servers, changing to different servers or using ips instead of dns may help fix problems on the client end.

Jitsi is amazing when setup properly (I have some deploy scripts somewhere out there, Jitsi is not truely open source as it seems)

Do you have some link to documentation explaining how to setup/debug this kind of things? I tried to deploy Jitsi Meet on a EC2 instance with all access permitted, but it still had quite a few problems. Did not try to tinker with STUN, though.

My search lead me to STUN and TURN server as this secret ingredient. I don't know what they mean though.

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