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Comment by ChrisMarshallNY | Hacker News Reader

I haven’t tried this, but I have been on Zoom meetings with 30 simultaneous screens going at a good framerate on a normal device in Gallery Mode, and 400 participants.

That seems to be Zoom’s signature achievement. I have not had any other commercial app even come close.

How does this compare, in endpoint software?

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we’ve used it with 30 users in gallery mode, works fine. Another group has used it with 500 people, and it seems to have worked as well.

A major issue is still Firefox, as Firefox does not support simultaneously sending two WebRTC streams, so Firefox users heavily reduce performance for all other users as well, but the rest seems to work just fine.

It would be great if it could work. I am a bit of an Electron skeptic, though. Maybe browser canvases can give decent native performance, and we could dispense with Electron.

I agree about Zoom’s failings. The existence of Facebook is living proof that privacy is a concern for only a relatively small number of folks.

Is there an issue on Firefox side tracking this problem ? as it seems a very big problem for that specific use case, and may be one of the reason why slack / teams etc. don't support firefox in their webapp ?

Various issues that have been open for quite a long time [1].

[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758#issuecomment...

He was asking about an issue on the Firefox bugzilla instance, not on the Jitsi side.

The linked comment links to relevant Bugzilla bugs :)

Ah this explains so much! We were having a lot of trouble having meetings with more than 5 people. Nobody here uses chrome (for good reasons.)

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