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Videoconferences should support WebRTC-capable browsers
CG and WG videoconference meetings are currently hosted with Google Hangouts. When I attempt to attend meetings with Firefox, I'm presented with a page which says:
For some web browsers, including Firefox, Hangouts uses a plugin to enable video and phone calls.
Firefox is ending support for plugins, so Hangouts won’t be able to support video and phone calls in Firefox until Hangouts is updated to resolve the problem. Google is working on a solution that will be available as soon as possible.
To reflect the spirit of cross-browser collaboration and Web standards, the WebAssembly videoconference meetings should support WebRTC-capable browsers.
IIUC, Google Hangouts works with WebRTC, just not when the meeting is created with the internal Google reservation system. E.g., if I schedule something with meet.google.com, it works with WebRTC.
In Igalia, we use Jitsi for meetings, which works on Chrome and Firefox for me; I have not tested other browsers. We could use the Igalia Jitsi instance if you'd like, with a room at https://jitsi.igalia.com/WebAssemblyCG
We hit Hangout's 30 person limit today. This is a problem. @linclark and Pat mentioned that zoom.us works well for them as well. Let's give it a try next time.
This is a workaround and not a solution but we could use an audio bridge for those that do not present and are not concerned about video? I think I can provide an audio bridge for people to use.
