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Is there an open-source screen sharing tool?
Tiger VNC is available on Github.
Also OpenMeetings from Apache is a capable product. It is a video conferencing tool that includes the ability to share screens.
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Is there a free and open source software for video conferencing?
Quoting from FAQ:
What is Jitsi?
Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. We are best known for our Jitsi Meet ...
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Skype alternative for Linux with counterpart for Android
Another reason to switch away from Skype is that they are owned by Microsoft and have been shown by the Snowden leaks simply to give data from Skype conversations to the NSA, including recorded calls.
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Is there an open-source screen sharing tool?
Jitsi
Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you ...
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C# SDK for videocalls
I recommend checking out the LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK for this. This SDK includes support for standard streams such as RTSP and MPEG-2 Transport over UDP. LEADTOOLS also provides a proprietary stream ...
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1:1 Video Chat that doesn't require logins
Jitsi Meet is open source, does not require any account and you can self-host it if you want. It works in the browser, so no installation needed.
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video ...
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Commercial web-based video conferencing platform
In addition to Webex I would also look at Big Blue Button, a Free/Open solution. Room creation, allowing access to rooms, etc. is all done via API calls, so you could have total control over how that ...
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Audio & Video teleconferencing program, hosted on personal PC
I have recently installed Jitsi Meet for that purpose.
It is self-hosted, on a Debian server in my case. The installation really was as simple as a few steps:
wget -qO - https://download.jitsi.org/...
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LAN-only IP-to-IP video chat
I would recommend trying a WebRTC based solution. One of them is apprtc.
You'll need internet connection to load the web page once, But after that you can talk to who ever you want on your local ...
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Sharing a video in a video conference call
There are various websites that allow you to make a 'room' and watch youtube videos together with your 'room' participants. There is full control over the video in these rooms. This would require you ...
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Open-source Alternatives to MS Teams for Video Conferencing
BigBlueButton would meet your requirements:
open-source: Yes.
Does not require to own a server or domain (by me): While you can self-host it, there are providers offering it for you. Though BBB ...
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Video chat alternative to Skype on Windows/Linux
Jitsi meet. You can always make the browser window on top. It is open source.
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Video calls for 20+ members for free?
When you write "free software" it seems you really mean free-of-charge services.
I can recommend to use Free Software (a.k.a. Open Source), which means software that is both free-of-charge ...
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Anonymised video conference platform
As of january 2021
|Google| MS | | |BigBlue| |Cisco
| meet |Teams|Zoom |Skype|Button#|YouTube|Webex
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Cross-platform remote desktop with video streaming
Maybe WHIP is helpful?
Available in Debian unstable and testing (and therefore soon in Ubuntu too, I guess) are packages simple-whip-client, simple-whip-server, janus, and janus-demos.
install and ...
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Make calls which does not dampen out musical instruments
When non-speech audio gets "muffled", most likely the cause is not client-side filtering but compresssion codec in use that is optimized for speech.
I recommend to use an app that supports ...
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Good open source alternative for Sony Vegas?
A somewhat less user friendly but possible more powerful option is MoviePy which is a Python wrapper around the command line FFMPEG it downloads and installs FFMPEG on first use - when used from ...
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Good open source alternative for Sony Vegas?
Reading the question, I wonder, as it happens very often, that you are confusing Open Source with free.
Open source is useful if you want to edit the code to make a variation of it, for example ...
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Open-source Alternatives to MS Teams for Video Conferencing
In addition to more popular options Jitsi Meet and BigBlueButton, which personally I dislike for being humongous and heavy on resource demands server-side, I would like to highlight a lesser known ...
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Open-source Alternatives to MS Teams for Video Conferencing
We are using Openmeetings as our video conference, some what same as BigBlueButton (already suggested in one of the answer), here we can share our PDF, Spreedsheet or any other file as on whiteboard.
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Zoom alternatives
Cisco Webex — Online Meetings and Video Conferencing
Webex online meetings and presentations, webinars, town halls, hand raising,
doc sharing, online courses and training, and online presentations.
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Zoom alternatives
There are some alternative to Zoom:
Google Hangouts (https://hangouts.google.com/)
Google Meet (https://meet.google.com/). I prefer this one.
Skype (https://www.skype.com/en/get-skype/)
Proficonf (...
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Zoom alternatives
As mentioned in the question, that organisation has stopped using Zoom for security reasons therefore I will recommend Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams allows hand raising, file sharing and storage, ...
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Zoom alternatives
you can do the following things with jitsi
Share your desktop, presentations, and more Invite users to a
conference via a simple, custom URL
Edit documents together using Etherpad
Pick fun meeting ...
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Each client should have their own private "room" where they can video/text with their support person from my team
Hangouts Chat
Not to be confused with Google Hangouts, the confusingly-named Hangouts Chat is Google's business offering as of 2018, and is available to G Suite subscribers.
Create dedicated chat ...
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(Open Source/ Low Cost) Conference Management Software
In addition to Odoo and Osem, check Indico: http://indico-software.org/
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What kind of software would you use for broadcasting an event?
The way we do this (and graduation, and sports events and ...) uses multiple bits -
Multiple cameras, connecting to a TriCaster mixing board, which records and encodes to send out to youtube, vimeo, ...
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Video conference with soundtrack sharing and playing
I think your requirements would be best suited and served by Cisco Webex meetings, and it is made free now up till certain users.
The host has all the controls required for the purposes you just ...
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Free web or desktop (OSX/Windows) software to allow free video conferencing for large groups (10+)
Another to add to your list is Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/. It meets all the requirements you have listed and in addition works on Linux, Android and iOS.
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self-hostable FOSS Videoconferencing server *with* on-server video mixing
What you are looking for is - as you mentioned yourself - technically called an MCU, where the currently more popular approach is called an SFU.
MCUs are unpopular because it places a burden at the ...
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