這是另一個開源視頻會議項目，簡稱bbb

官方網站：http://bigbluebutton.org/

代碼地址：https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/

demo：http://demo.bigbluebutton.org/

收集到的中文資料：http://www.iteye.com/blogs/subjects/yangactive

支持安卓：http://bigbluebutton.org/2011/02/09/bigbluebutton-on-android-phone/

IPad：http://bigbluebutton.org/2013/01/11/html5-client-ipad/

根據bbb進行二次開發的項目：https://github.com/fuji246/django-bigbluebutton，國人對項目的貢獻：http://www.bbbforum.com/forum/topic/61/

關于性能（bigbluebutton的CEO針對一個說bbb性能不好的人的回擊）：https://help.instructure.com/entries/22478390-What-are-technological-limits-to-BigBlueButton-

I can give you another update on BigBlueButton's capabilities available to Instructure customers. ? Again, I'm speaking as CEO of Blindside Networks, the company that started the BigBlueButton project.??As of last week, Blindside Networks now provides a free tier of BigBlueButton to all Instructure customers. ?This free tier provides

• • recording of your sessions (recordings automatically delete after 14 days)
  • latest version of BigBlueButton (improved usability)
  • higher capacity hosting (unlimited sessions)

There is nothing you need to do. ?Instructure has upgraded all Canvas accounts to this newer version of BigBlueButton. ?For details on the usability improvements compared with the previous version, see the following two videos:

Moderator/Presenter Tutorial (9m): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHTZvbL1NT4? Viewer (Student) Tutorial (4m): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS2lttmPi6A

>?I'm curious to learn more about BigBlueButton and any possible limitations it has as well.

建議一個會議室只有50人，我們沒有設計為一個會議室100或者150人以上。

We recommend using BigBlueButton for sessions of 50 users or less. ?This is not a hard-coded number. ?You could have 51, 52, etc. in a session and it will still work fine, but it's our way of saying we've not designed BigBlueButton for a webinar-type collaboration in which 100, 150, or more.

bbb是可以多對多視頻通話。

Unlike a webinar where only one person can talk, with BigBlueButton you can have 20 people all talking, all sharing the webcam, all collaborating at once.

多個在線會議室可以同時進行，沒有任何限制。

There is no limit on the number of simultaneous BigBlueButton sessions that are active. ?(Go ahead and try!) ?For the upgrade, we've invested a significant amount into dedicated resources to support the use of BigBlueButton by the Instructure community, and, we can add more resources as the community's use grows.?

>?We already know that it doesn't do recordings

BigBlueButton now archives your session for later playback. ?Here is an example recording (best viewed by FireFox):?http://goo.gl/A0IOXr?

> I'm especially curious because I was told by Instructure tech support a while back (late 2012/early 2013) that BBB can only support 200 simultaneous users or less across your entire Canvas LMS

現在，bbb支持單房間50人在線，房間數目不限制。

That was then, this is now: we can support up to 50 users in a single session. ?There is no limit on the number of simultaneous sessions. ?For example, you can have six sessions of fifty users for a total of 6 * 50 = 300 users on-line.???

>?And if more than 25 users are simultaneously accessing BBB is that the audio will be awful!?

Our capacity for hosting BigBlueButton sessions is *far* ahead of what it was in?late 2012/early 2013. ?I think the ARM was trying to be conservative, which. ?

視頻不清晰的緣故是寬帶太低，而不是bbb的問題。每一個用戶需要最少1M的下行寬帶和0.5M的上行寬帶。

The quality of audio depends almost entirely on each user's bandwidth: if the bandwidth is too low, the audio will suffer. ?We recommend that users have , at a minimum, 1 Mbits/sec download and 0.5 Mbits/sec upload bandwidth. ?These numbers are guidance as well (they could have 0.49 Mbits/sec and it should work well); however, the lower the bandwidth, the more likely the user will report poor audio.

On the administration side, with any deployment of any on-line classrooms, we would recommend you holding a test session with students ahead of the real class. ?Students (and sometimes professors) will need help becoming familiar with the setup of their microphone. ?The above videos will guide them through adjusting the audio settings.?

>?"As a rule of the thumb, without knowing anything about your server, we recommend you use BigBlueButton with on-line classes totaling twenty-five (25) users or less. This may be one class of 25 users, 2 x 12, 5 x 5, etc.BigBlueButton was never intended to scale to 200-300 users, but rather to help on a classroom level."

Now you can have up to 50 users in any one session, and you can host as many sessions as you want. ?For greater clarity, we do not recommend going above fifty users in any single session, so 200-300 users in a single session is out, but six different sessions of 50 users each is fine.

Why? ?Blindside Networks has a load-balanced architecture that supports a pool of BigBlueButton servers. ?Our hosting environment starts each session on a different server (usually the least leaded) and spreads out the load across the poll. ?As the demand increases, we add more BigBlueButton servers to the pool.?

>?"Currently no message will be displayed. Product is looking at what we should do as an error message. Now they will probably get a message saying they are connecting to the server and it will either die or say connecting forever. Know that it is on our road map."

There is currently no hard-coded limit on the number of users. ?We didn't want the 51, or 52nd users to not get in. ?If you wanted a hard-coded limit, we could certainly look at implementing it.??

>?Needless to say, I was stunned! We have 25,000 students and thousands of courses each term, so clearly we could easily exceed that limitation any given day & we have been steering people away from BBB ever since.?

Gabrielle, I hope the above gives you a better comfort on the effort we've put into providing you a solid, usable, real-time collaborative environment for Colorado Mountain College. ?We've been working almost fourteen months on this new version of BigBlueButton, and we focused on the stability, usability, and features that our customers have requested.

我希望你也能理解，我們不可能滿足每一個人的需求。我們建議的三種使用場景：一對一的課程、人數少的多對多在線交流，一對多的直播(50人以下)

I also hope you can see that we're specifically not trying to make BigBlueButton do everything for everyone. ?The three use-cases we focus on are one-to-one, small group collaboration, and one-to-many (under 50 users). ?

bbb已經在社區推廣一年多了，已經為五萬多個課程提供了技術服務。據我們的調查，這些課程中，平均都是11個人，每個課程不超過77分鐘（一對多，直播模式）；平均5個人，50分鐘左右的多對多視頻。

Since BigBlueButton was introduced to the Instructure community over a year ago, there have been over thirty thousand sessions. ?When we looked data for sessions over 5 users, the average meeting size was about 11 users and the average length was 77 minutes (one-to-many), and for sessions containing 2,3,4, or 5 users, the average size was 3 users and the length was fifty minutes (small group collaboration). ?

?Warm regards,... Fred Dixon

And, we strongly recommend that anyone who will be broadcasting audio us a headset.

. ?This is integrated with Canvas Conferences.??

September 29, 2013 16:31

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視頻服務器：基于red5。

client：前端可以用flex。

特性：?是一個使用 ActionScript 開發的遠程教育平臺，主要功能包括語音，視頻講課，桌面共享，在線文檔的展示，如ppt,word,pdf等等，voip，還支持多國語言，文字交流，非常合適網上教學。服務器端用到的項目包括有?ActiveMQ,Asterisk,Nginx,Tomcat等！?

目前版本是8.0，服務器端運行在Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit 或者 64-bit.? 部署bbb服務器端有兩種方式，一種是：從安裝包安裝，一種是安裝bbb虛擬機！

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與openmeeting的區別，

　　國人的一片文章

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_51396f890102es5b.html，

國外的兩篇：

https://github.com/mainehackerclub/open_vehicle_tracker/issues/8

BBB is definitely looking awesome! But a few obstacles remain if we want to give it a try.
First, its has very specific hardware requirements needing- a dedicated Quad-core machine with at least 4GB of memory and a 2.6Gz Processor?

對硬件要求更高
Secondly, The latest Beta version only runs on Ubuntu 10.10 64Bit (which is kind of strange that they would only test on deprecated software...) The stable version can also run on 32Bit but otherwise has the same requirements.

最新版本只認Ubuntu 10.10 64Bit操作系統
It can run on a VM but performance suffers considerably.可以以虛擬機的形式直接部署，但是性能可想而知。
If we could find someone with an old Quad Core desktop they're getting rid of, it might be fun to set up our own remote server somewhere with a fast internet connection? Perhaps even host our own LocalWiki or Wordpress off of it?

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https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=227986

Anyway, here are the areas I'll compare them:

1- Chat module:

In bbb chat module is vertically placed on the right by defaults, which give you the opportunity to view nearly all the messages from the participants. In om, however, it is placed horizontally in a rectangular box just beneath the whiteboard in which you can see the very few messages from the participants even if you hide the admin panel

Prior to 0.81 version, bbb was showing certain characters of the participants' names (such as Grah.. instead of full name Graham Stone). But in 0.81 beta version this was corrected and full name of the participants can be seen.

Again prior to 0.81 version of bbb, you could change the font color of your messages. This was a very good feature especially in discriminating the messages. However, in 0.81 version you have only one color: black. I believe this will be corrected since 0.81 version is still in beta

In bbb there is also a private message area in which you can send private messages to the users similar to adobe connect. I say similar because in adobe connect the teacher is informed if a participant sends a private message to the other. In bbb, teacher is not informed if any of the users are privately chatting unless the recipient is the teacher himself. In om, afaik there is not a private chat feature available.

2- Users block:

In om, users are given more permissions such as turning on their mic even if you disable them to avoid echo. bbb is more aggressive than om in this aspect: Once the moderator logs in and set turn off all mics, every new comer enters the conference as their mics off. This is a good feature to avoid echo since every user does not use a headset with mic.?And in om, if you choose webinar as conference type, the mics can be bulk turned off. But this time, if you want to allow a participant to speak, you have to first click on the user's name then click again to turn on his/her mic, which requires a double click to turn on and double click to turn off. This might cause problems if you have a crowded class.

3- Tools:

The tools in om is undoubtedly richer than the ones in bbb; especially the icons and type tool. In bbb 0.81 beta version type tool is added, through which you can type on the whiteboard. However, the typed items cannot be dragged to another place as it can be done in om.

In om you have one useful too, which is polls, through which you can create polls (let's say questions) and ask the participants to make their choices when they are ready. At the end of the voting session a pie chart is shown.

4- Uploaded materials:

The materials uploaded by the teacher in om remains in teacher's account even if s/he logs out the conference and backs to moodle. In bbb, however, once the teacher logs out and logs in again, s/he has to?upload?the materials again to use them.?

In om, you can have more than one whiteboards whereas is in bbb you can use only one whiteboard.

5- Recording:

In om, you can record the session with the editing tools. I mean if you draw something on the whiteboard, it is recorded as well. However, in bbb the things that you draw on the whiteboard is not shown in the recording; only the slides and the voice of the teacher. I think this is because of the format of the recording. The slides are saved as .swf files and audio as .vaw. And they are saved separately. Another point to consider is if you have sessions one after another, you should think about the recording process one more time. I mean while the recording of the older session takes place, another live session will tried to be handled by the?server: How a powerful server you have, you should think about the server load.

In om, you can also define which areas of the screen to record. By this way you can record let's say the video view of the teacher. In bbb, however, only the whiteboard and chat module is recorded.

As a solution, you can think about using a screen capture program. Besides commercial ones if you have a Ubuntu machine you should give a try to?kazaam, which gives very good quality output with a small file size.

6- Installation:

You can install both moodle and om on the same server since om runs on port 5080 while moodle runs on port 80. But personally I do not recommend running the lms and video conferencing tool on the same server, especially for production sites with large amount of participants. But if you have a small number of participants and budget, this can be considered.?Although there are some attempts to run bbb on a different port apart from 80, (personally I tried it too) it stopped working after a successful 30 seconds runtime.?

BBB developer Fred Dixon is very decisive on this matter; bbb requires a dedicated server and has to be run on port 80 (see?here). From a technical aspect, from the outputs of our bbb server, I can say that bbb heavily relies on the processor rather than RAM of the server.?

You can install bbb on a Ubuntu 10.04 server easily, and you might have problems if you want to install it on a 12.04 Ubuntu server. See?here?for installation instructions.

You can install om on Ubuntu 12.04 and even on Ubuntu 12.10 server. See?here?for installation instructions

7- Layout:

bbb 0.81 beta version is added a new feature through which you can change the layout automatically with one click. The options are video chat, meeting, webinar, lecture assistant and lecture.

You can use om more than a web conferencing tool. I mean you can create different sessions, calendar events, user account assignments through the om portal itself. In bbb, you do not have much choice but just using video conferencing features.

Conclusion:

Since we have been using moodle 2.5 and horizontal chat module is extremely important for us (we are using it in a language course and we frequently ask participants to share their replies/comments with us) we went back to using bbb. One more thing to add is that, personally I think, the speed of these videoconferencing tools mostly depends on the bandwidth of the server and the participants' rather than the architecture on which they are built. Best regards

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轉載于:https://www.cnblogs.com/ustcyc/p/3571407.html

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