Few installation tips and disambiguation for AWS EC2 users

[realnumber]

Hi, I've managed to install Jitsi-meet and Jibri on a single EC2 instance and learned something that I wish I knew a few days ago so I thought I'd be nice to share:

1. Installing ALSA loopback module on default kernel fails so I followed the instructions here to make modprobe snd-aloop possible. That is, changing and updating the kernel boot settings from Linux 4.4.0-xxxx-aws to Linux 4.4.0-xxxx-generic and restarting the instance.

2. If you you run both jitsi-meet and jibri on a t2.micro instance, you're most likely encouter a memory overflow error like this as soon as you start streaming: INFO: [50] ffmpeg.run() [x11grab @ 0xf4e940] Cannot get 3686432 bytes of shared memory: Cannot allocate memory. In my case, switching the instance to a r4.large solved the issue.

3. (not only for AWS users) Despite what the README.md says, there is no "recording button" (I tried to find a button with this exact name). The "Go live now" is the button you are looking for :)

4. As for user/group, I've installed and ran everything as root and it worked out perfectly.

By the way, the versions I used are

Package: jitsi-meet
Version: 1.0.3035-1
Depends: jitsi-videobridge (= 1056-1), jicofo (= 1.0-409-1), jitsi-meet-web (= 1.0.2782-1), jitsi-meet-web-config (= 1.0.2782-1), jitsi-meet-prosody (= 1.0.2782-1)

Package: jibri
Version: 1.4.50-1

I'm more than happy to open a PR to make changes on README.md.

[bbaldino]

I'm more than happy to open a PR to make changes on README.md.

That would definitely be welcome.

[premanandmanimaran]

Hello

I am trying to Install Jitsi Meet in AWS EC2 Instance to achieve the following

1. Desktop Sharing
2. Audio / Video Call
3. SIP Call
4. Call Recording
5. Text Chat

Can you help me ?

Anand

[ghost]

hey. thanks for sharing. How can I DM you?

Thanks.

[burlycare]

Hello

I am trying to Install Jitsi Meet in AWS EC2 Instance to achieve the following

1. Desktop Sharing
2. Audio / Video Call
3. SIP Call
4. Call Recording
5. Text Chat

Can you help me ?

Anand

have you done it?