Post #338720
2026-01-14 18:28 UTC
gotta say i have never had a good audio experience on any of the open source meeting apps (jitsi, bigbluebutton, etc). all of them seem super laggy so people talk over each other, the audio is bad and levels off. i end up feeling mega stressed at the end of calls and i think its down to this.
anyone know why? what possible proprietary goop do the zooms of the world have? zoom especially is just so head and shoulders above everyone else quality wise it makes me wonder what They've Seen
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@arod@social.coop 2026-01-15 15:00
@kim my understanding is that it's because they don't prioritize minimizing audio latency in how the tools are designed. JackTRIP, Sonobus, FarPlay are examples of tools designed to minimize latency (even better than zoom in my experience!) Longer distances make this problem worse but most of the latency is in the software design and hardware setup. For example, if connecting via Bluetooth headphones it increases latency a lot
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@jandi@mastodon.social 2026-01-15 22:03
@kim Cisco proprietary goop. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23582947