A cosy conversation about a potential candidate for cosy video calls
I could not find enough time yet to dig into this, but I may try to install it at some point and see how it fares:
https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalk?tab=readme-ov-file
I had been running a Jitsi Meet instance for some time, but could never find an easy way to add a file transfer option. There is always email, but it means two separate channels and obviously reduces the smoothness of the experience. The other option is to share a window with an open document, but this also has its limitations. So that meant Jitsi Meet just did not have the option, which led me to start looking around until I stumbled upon that project.
I am not completely comfortable about nodejs, but maybe I should try using both nodejs and docker at some point.
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> I had been running a Jitsi Meet instance for some time, but could never find an easy way to add a file transfer option.
While searching, I found https://desktop.jitsi.org/Development/FileTransfer with DuckDuckGo but I can't find where it is linked from on the Jitsi website.
For a separate channel, I would consider a pastebin (like bepasty) using no password or the room name as password.
But I agree that something fully integrated would be nicer.
This looks like a WIP for the "legacy" jitsi desktop client, which may be the reason why the Jitsi Meet pages do not link to it.
I am not sure why file transfer is not considered for implementation in Jitsi Meet, but just found out that the relevant XMPP extension specifications have stalled:
https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0096.html
https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0234.html
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In my understanding, XEP-0363 is what is used when, in clients like Gajim, one selects a file to be sent to a multi-user chat.
So someone would need to dive into the Jitsi Meet codebase and implement http file upload using the Prosody module.
https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_http_file_share
It seems quite reasonable to assume that file transfer will not soon be an option on Jitsi Meet, though:
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/5831#issuecomment-1736697506