Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn’t have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.
My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that’s ok.
For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I’ve tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.
Thank you!
That would probably depend on the hardware acceleration for video encoding and decoding on your particular system. Doing it in software, especially for low-spec devices, is going to greatly limit your resolution and quality if you want a reasonable frame rate.