Hi,
I'm supposed to organise an online workshop next week. I would just like to brodcast what is happening on my screen to up to 15/20 people. I don't even really need video or audio, just a screen broadcast would be enough.
So far, my tests of jisti are not very conclusive. People keep telling me to use skype or google hangouts / other proprietary services.
Does someone have a better idea? What would you do if you were in my shoes? The viewers are not using Free Software, and are both on Mac and Windows.
Thanks! Lucile
On 28/02/14 19:44, Lucile Fagueyrac wrote:
Hi,
I'm supposed to organise an online workshop next week. I would just like to brodcast what is happening on my screen to up to 15/20 people. I don't even really need video or audio, just a screen broadcast would be enough.
So far, my tests of jisti are not very conclusive.
Hi Lucile,
Please try the Jitsi user email list - they are very helpful and usually respond very quickly: https://jitsi.org/Development/MailingLists
People keep telling me to use skype or google hangouts / other proprietary services.
Does someone have a better idea? What would you do if you were in my shoes? The viewers are not using Free Software, and are both on Mac and Windows.
If you just want to broadcast unidirectional content (e.g. you don't need to see the other people), then you may be able to use something like VLC and a streaming server
Regards,
Daniel
Daniel Pocock daniel@pocock.com.au, Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:23:49 +0100:
If you just want to broadcast unidirectional content (e.g. you don't need to see the other people), then you may be able to use something like VLC and a streaming server
I would recommend VLC too. The setup of the broadcast stream is relatively easy using the graphical user interface. There are tutorials for that too. If you are using a consumer internet connection, you will usually need to set up a port forwarding on your router, so that the port used by VLC on your computer gets exposed to the internet and people can connect to it.
See that you do not set the stream quality too high, your internet connection must suffice to copy the stream to all viewers at once (unless you use true multicast techniques, which you probably do not). In a screen cast the first thing you can spare is the frame rate.
Hi,
I guess these days Jitsi https://jitsi.org/ is the most promising solution to that. Chromium and webrtc might be an option, too: https://meet.jit.si/.
I don't have a representative experience with either though. So my advice is to test rigorously
Robert
Lucile Fagueyrac lucile.falg@fsfe.org writes:
I'm supposed to organise an online workshop next week. I would just like to brodcast what is happening on my screen to up to 15/20 people.
I'm not sure about streaming a broadcast to clients. Here are some free-software screencast tools to try:
* kazam * vokoscreen * istanbul * byzanz
Also useful:
* screenkey — Display the keystrokes you're making.