Re: Video conferencing with high quality audio

Hey all,

as an RTC developer myself, besides a hobbyist musician, I did ask myself
that question, especially during COVID. Basically all the solutions you
mentioned (except Hamulus) use WebRTC, so that's at the foundation: the
tricky part is the client side, since browsers don't realise cut it for
different reasons.

At the time, I remotely made a presentation about that at FOSDEM:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/webrtc_musicians/

That eventually led to a proof-of-concept application built on top of JACK
and GStreamer (for the client side part of WebRTC) and my own open source
Janus WebRTC server:

https://github.com/lminiero/jamrtc

That said, I never really had a chance to really test it properly, beyond
some partial local experiments. I'm not even sure it builds cleanly
anymore, since some time passed and Gstreamer may have changed a bit since
then. Anyway, it did try to take into account the latency aspect of it, and
audio+video synchronisation.

Just mentioning it in case you feel like playing with it, since it's all
open source. Should you find problems building it, just let me know and I
can check if there are easy fixes.

Lorenzo

Il sab 7 mar 2026, 10:00 Marc Groenewegen <[email protected]> ha
scritto:

>
> Hi Bent, David and Robin, thanks for your replies!
>
> BigBlueButton looks promising, I'll explore that further.
> Jamulus may serve other purposes, as David states. I like Bent's
> suggestion of having an audio-focused channel alongside
> with e.g. Jitsi, but for this case I prefer a solution that is easy for
> all users (i.e. presenters and listeners).
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
>
> On 3/6/26 23:09, Robin Gareus wrote:
> > On 2026-03-06 11:18 AM, Marc Groenewegen wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm looking for a video conferencing solution which offers high audio
> quality.
> >>
> >> I have the following minimum requirements:
> >>
> >> - high quality stereo audio for screen sharing (e.g. when presenting
> music/sound to your audience)
> >> - A/V sync for screen sharing, not just for playing videos but for live
> demos with PD, Supercollider etc.
> >> - preferably open source
> >> - preferably self hostable
> >> - multi platform or browser based
> >> - easy to use for end users
> >> - scalable up to 100 users (for presentations, lectures etc.)
> >>
> >> Do you have any ideas?
> >
> > Have you looked into BigBlueButton [1]? That seems to meet all your
> criteria.
> >
> > As bonus point, the usual suspects are working on getting some nice
> audio processing chain in there [2,3].
> >
> > --
> > robin
> >
> >
> > [1] https://bigbluebutton.org/
> > [2] https://github.com/trummerschlunk/BigBlueBetterAudio
> > [3] https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/24268
>