9 Feb
2020
9 Feb
'20
12:48 a.m.
All, I've also set this up to try out for the video chats:
https://meet.tuhs.org/COFF
Password to join is "unix" at the moment.
I just want to test it to confirm that it works; I'll be heading
out the door to go to the shops soon.
Cheers, Warren
9 Feb
9 Feb
2:02 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 10:48:54AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
All, I've also set this up to try out for the
video chats:
https://meet.tuhs.org/COFF
I just want to test it to confirm that it works.
It works, thanks to the four or five who popped in to test it.
I'm thinking of a weekly rotation through these timezones:
UTC Brisbane New Jersey
Week 1: 8am 6pm 3am
Week 2: 1pm 11pm 8am
Week 3: 10pm 8am 5pm
We'd need a volunteer from each timezone to start up the channel
and to (try to) keep some order. Any takers?
Cheers, Warren
10:56 p.m.
New subject: [COFF] Also, a video service
On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 10:48:54 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
All, I've also set this up to try out for the
video chats:
https://meet.tuhs.org/COFF
Password to join is "unix" at the moment.
I just want to test it to confirm that it works; I'll be heading
out the door to go to the shops soon.
Just tried it out. On FreeBSD I get a blank grey screen. I could
only get something more on a Microsoft box, not quite what I'd want to
do. Is there some trick?
Greg
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11:21 p.m.
New subject: [COFF] Also, a video service
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:56:38 +1100 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
wrote:
On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 10:48:54 +1000, Warren
Toomey wrote:
I was able to connect from a MacBookPro. This seems to be
Jitsi. There is a jitsi package for FreeBSD-11. Unfortunately
/usr/ports/net-im/jitsi is broken (unfetchable). No idea if
any of the linux downloads from jitsi.org would work.
All, I've also set this up to try out for
the video chats:
https://meet.tuhs.org/COFF
Password to join is "unix" at the moment.
I just want to test it to confirm that it works; I'll be heading
out the door to go to the shops soon.
Just tried it out. On FreeBSD I get a blank grey screen. I could
only get something more on a Microsoft box, not quite what I'd want to
do. Is there some trick? 
10 Feb
10 Feb
3:35 a.m.
New subject: [COFF] Also, a video service
Thanks, Bakul. I'm just now installing jitsi on one of my Linux boxen.
Speaking of FreeBSD and MacOS, I'm sure the source code at
https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/src/ will compile on FreeBSD with a
simple ./configure and make.
Wesley Parish
On 2/10/20, Bakul Shah <bakul(a)bitblocks.com> wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:56:38 +1100 Greg
'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
wrote:
On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 10:48:54 +1000,
Warren Toomey wrote:
I was able to connect from a MacBookPro. This seems to be
Jitsi. There is a jitsi package for FreeBSD-11. Unfortunately
/usr/ports/net-im/jitsi is broken (unfetchable). No idea if
any of the linux downloads from jitsi.org would work.
All, I've also set this up to try out for
the video chats:
https://meet.tuhs.org/COFF
Password to join is "unix" at the moment.
I just want to test it to confirm that it works; I'll be heading
out the door to go to the shops soon.
Just tried it out. On FreeBSD I get a blank grey screen. I could
only get something more on a Microsoft box, not quite what I'd want to
do. Is there some trick?
13 Feb
13 Feb
11:41 p.m.
New subject: jitsi on FreeBSD (was: Also, a video service)
On Monday, 10 February 2020 at 16:35:44 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
Thanks, Bakul. I'm just now installing jitsi on
one of my Linux boxen.
Speaking of FreeBSD and MacOS, I'm sure the source code at
https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/src/ will compile on FreeBSD with a
simple ./configure and make.
Thanks for that. I was wondering where the sources had gone. I've
now updated the port net-im/jitsi, so you should be able to build
directly from there, or install the package once it has been built (a
few days, I think).
Greg
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10 Feb
10 Feb
6:09 a.m.
New subject: [COFF] Also, a video service
> All, I've also set this up to try out for the
video chats:
> https://meet.tuhs.org/COFF
> Password to join is "unix" at the moment.
Just tried it out. On FreeBSD I get a blank grey
screen. I could
only get something more on a Microsoft box, not quite what I'd want to
do. Is there some trick?
* Install /usr/ports/net-im/jitsi. (Comment out the BROKEN line from the
Makefile and "make install" should work as usual; the source can actually
be fetched just fine...)
* kldload cuse
* Run firefox and surf to that URL.
After doing this, I surfed to that URL and was connected, with the video
from my webcam displaying in the browser.
hashbrown/home/jason-124575: uname -a
FreeBSD hashbrown 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE r357056 JKERN12 amd64
For what it's worth, the webcam identifies itself as vendor:product
0x046d:0x0825, which, according to https://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat
is a Logitech C270 HD. I think I paid about $20 USD for it, five or so
years ago. The quality is quite sufficient for video conferencing, and it
works with webcamd, vlc, and all the other software that I typically run
on my FreeBSD desktop. As always, YMMV...
-Jason
13 Feb
13 Feb
11:43 p.m.
New subject: Video service on FreeBSD (was: Also, a video service)
On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 22:09:47 -0800, jason-tuhs(a)shalott.net wrote:
In fact, the package was indeed unfetchable, but the ports collection
had a cached version, which is what you got. But now I've brought it
up to date (only 2 years old rather than 4).
> All, I've also set this up to try out
for the video chats:
> https://meet.tuhs.org/COFF
> Password to join is "unix" at the moment.
Just tried it out. On FreeBSD I get a blank grey
screen. I could
only get something more on a Microsoft box, not quite what I'd want to
do. Is there some trick?
* Install /usr/ports/net-im/jitsi. (Comment out the BROKEN line from the
Makefile and "make install" should work as usual; the source can actually
be fetched just fine...) * kldload cuse
* Run firefox and surf to that URL.
I haven't found that necessary. In fact, installing jitsi doesn't
seem to be necessary. All you need is a more recent browser than the
antiques I was running.
Greg
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