Jitsi Video Bridge Plugin Readme

Overview

The Jitsi Video Bridge Plugin is an XMPP server component that allows for multiuser video communication. Unlike the expensive dedicated hardware videobridges, Jitsi Videobridge does not mix the video channels into a composite video stream, but only relays the received video channels to all call participants. Therefore, while it does need to run on a server with good network bandwidth, CPU horsepower is not that critical for performance. It includes the OfMeet video conference application using WebRTC as well as a simple Spark plugin.

Known Issues

The first video conference creating after restarting Openfire may fail. Work around is remove all participants from the room and try again or use a new room.

Installation

Copy the jitsivideobridge.jar file to the OPENFIRE_HOME/plugins directory.
Restart Openfire.
Configure the admin properties page.

Configuration

Under Server settings -> Jitsi Videobridge tab you can configure the range of UDP ports to be used by the videobridge.

How to use

Make sure:

you are using Google Chrome as your web browser
you have a webcam installed and ready for use for each user
you have opened ports 50000 - 60000 (or whatever you configured) on your openfire server

OfMeet

To run the ofmeet video conference application, point your browser at https://your_server:7443/jitsi/apps/ofmeet

Candy

To run the Candy web application with multi-user video, point your browser at https://your_server:7443/jitsi/apps/candy

Spark

To download the Spark plugin, point your browser at https://your_server:7443/jitsi/apps/spark/jitsivideobridge-plugin.jar

JitMeet

To run the jitmeet video conference application, point your browser at https://your_server:7443/jitsi/apps/jitmeet

You will need Google Chrome as your default browser to use the Spark plugin