What to use to organise a "weminar"?

[Lucile Fagueyrac]

Hi,

I'm supposed to organise an online workshop next week.
I would just like to brodcast what is happening on my screen to up to
15/20 people.
I don't even really need video or audio, just a screen broadcast would
be enough.

So far, my tests of jisti are not very conclusive.
People keep telling me to use skype or google hangouts / other
proprietary services.

Does someone have a better idea? What would you do if you were in my
shoes? The viewers are not using Free Software, and are both on Mac and
Windows.

Thanks!
Lucile

[Daniel Pocock]

Post by Lucile Fagueyrac
Hi,
I'm supposed to organise an online workshop next week.
I would just like to brodcast what is happening on my screen to up to
15/20 people.
I don't even really need video or audio, just a screen broadcast would
be enough.
So far, my tests of jisti are not very conclusive.

Hi Lucile,

Please try the Jitsi user email list - they are very helpful and usually
respond very quickly:
https://jitsi.org/Development/MailingLists

Post by Lucile Fagueyrac
People keep telling me to use skype or google hangouts / other
proprietary services.
Does someone have a better idea? What would you do if you were in my
shoes? The viewers are not using Free Software, and are both on Mac and
Windows.

If you just want to broadcast unidirectional content (e.g. you don't
need to see the other people), then you may be able to use something
like VLC and a streaming server

Regards,

Daniel

[Paul Hänsch]

Post by Daniel Pocock
If you just want to broadcast unidirectional content (e.g. you don't
need to see the other people), then you may be able to use something
like VLC and a streaming server

I would recommend VLC too. The setup of the broadcast stream is
relatively easy using the graphical user interface. There are tutorials
for that too. If you are using a consumer internet connection, you will
usually need to set up a port forwarding on your router, so that the
port used by VLC on your computer gets exposed to the internet and
people can connect to it.

See that you do not set the stream quality too high, your internet
connection must suffice to copy the stream to all viewers at once
(unless you use true multicast techniques, which you probably do not).
In a screen cast the first thing you can spare is the frame rate.
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[Robert Martinez]

Hi,

I guess these days Jitsi https://jitsi.org/ is the most promising
solution to that. Chromium and webrtc might be an option, too:
https://meet.jit.si/.

I don't have a representative experience with either though.
So my advice is to test rigorously


Robert

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[Ben Finney]

Post by Lucile Fagueyrac
I'm supposed to organise an online workshop next week.
I would just like to brodcast what is happening on my screen to up to
15/20 people.

I'm not sure about streaming a broadcast to clients. Here are some
free-software screencast tools to try:

* kazam
* vokoscreen
* istanbul
* byzanz

Also useful:

* screenkey ? Display the keystrokes you're making.