Intro

Jitsi Videobridge 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.

You can find documentation in the doc/ directory in the source tree.

Running it

We have packages for Debian/Ubuntu here.

echo 'deb http://download.jitsi.org/nightly/deb unstable/' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -qO - https://download.jitsi.org/nightly/deb/unstable/archive.key | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get -y install jitsi-videobridge

Or you can clone the Git repo and run the JVB from source using maven.

HOST="Your XMPP server hostname/IP address goes here."
DOMAIN="Yhe JVB component name goes here."
PORT="the component port of your XMPP server goes here."
SECRET="The secret or password for the JVB component."
JVB_HOME="The path to your JVB clone."

mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.args="--host=$HOST --domain=$DOMAIN --port=$PORT --secret=$SECRET" -Djava.library.path=$JVB_HOME/lib/native/linux-64 -Djava.util.logging.config.file=$JVB_HOME/lib/logging.properties -Dnet.java.sip.communicator.SC_HOME_DIR_NAME=.jitsi-videobridge