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Re: [LUG] Use Jitsi for video conferencing was Re: Skype

 

On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 16:50, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:23:20 GMT Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
> >
> > Grantedly I am using a Mac, so I'm already on the Free Software naughty
> > list, but I found it odd that Jitsi Meet couldn't use the webcam when
> > everything else can.
> >
> > That is the only reason I am not using it.
>
> Sounds odd, we had a bunch of Macs using it with various random external
> webcams no problem previously.
>
> As I said fight it so others don't.
>
> Although that may well be a Mac issue.

So the Mac in question is a Mac Pro Early 2008 (2 x Quad Core Xeons @
2.8GHz, with 56GB of RAM... it runs nice and smoothly) that has been
cajoled into running Catalina (using DosDude1's patched installer).
I'm using a Logitech HD Pro C920 webcam (one of the few FullHD USB
webcams that does actually work with macOS). Previously Skype, Zoom,
HouseParty (don't judge me... my family use it), Facebook, Hangouts,
Facetime, and pretty much everything else I throw at it will happily
see the webcam and use it... but Jitsi Meet just wouldn't even list
it.

Annoyingly I have just tried both the Jitsi Meet website and the
standalone app again and the damn thing is working fine now.

Ah, well. As I will be in the office I might as well have a Jitsi Meet
window open as well as anything else anyone wants to use for the
meeting.

Grant. :)

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