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Restream
Jitsi meetings are an excellent way to invite a handful of people to a web-based video conference. However, if more than a dozen or so people connect, the quality can start to degenerate. As a result, jitsi is not a useful way to broadcast a meeting to a lot of people.
Restream allows us to take a jitsi meeting and send the video and audio to our icecast servers, which are designed to handle hundreds of simultaneous connections.
This page documents how to use restream.
The restream system is currently only available to MF/PL system administrators.
Setup
First, ensure you have joined the jitsi meeting using the browser you intend to use for your own participation. This step ensures you are granted moderator rights.
Next, login to dee.mayfirst.org as root:
ssh root@dee.mayfirst.org
Next, launch the stream specifying the final part of the jitsi URL. In other words, if your jitsi meeting is at https://meet.mayfirst.org/mfpl, you would specify "mfpl" as the only argument, e.g.:
restream mfpl
Then, check for the stream at: https://a.stream.mayfirst.org:8000/mfpl.webm