I get regular requests and issues have been raised about upgrading the Jitsi meet code in the Openfire Pade plugin to the latest versions. Unfortunately, this task is much more difficult than it sounds.

Jitsi Meet has evolved a lot since the early days of WebRTC. It has moved from being a Java platform agnostic, XMPP compatible self-hosting application into a Linux cloud hosted service.
The current code still depends on our Smack project for the XMPP client, but it uses Prosody as the XMPP server with quite a few extensions and modules coded in Lua which need to be ported to Java. Apart from not having time to work on it, I have also lost the motivation to step up to the challenge as I am more interested in using WHIP and WHEP with XMPP.

Nevertheless, an issue can round last week requesting for support of AV1 codec. This sparked enough motivation for me to spend my Easter holidays trying one more time to make the upgrade happen. The bad news is that I failed yet again, but the good news is that I was able to update the existing code to support AV1. Please note that codecs have pros and cons. VP9 is probably the best all rounder. H264 is best with devices that have hardware encoders and AV1 handles low bandwidth the best.

Openfire Pade plugin version 1.8.4 now supports the AV1 codec. You get the best results with P2P calls. As it is it more CPU intensive than VP9, you make get lower frame rates on low-spec servers. The latest Jitsi code has a lot more improvements and if you really need AV1 with many participants, seriously consider deploying the Jitsi Meet self-hosted instance in a container or VM.

As always, your instance of Openfire should automatically make available to update. Alternatively, you can download the new release of the plugin at the Openfire Pade plugin’s archive page.

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There is now available a new version of the Pàdé plugin for Openfire! This plugin offers web-based unified communications - chat, groupchat, telephone, audio and video conferencing using ConverseJS, Jitsi Meet and FreeSwitch.

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from the plugin’s archive page .

This is the first version of Pade that is compatible with Openfire 4.8. If you are still on Openfire 4.7 or below, then you should be using v1.7.9. Please create issues if you run into problems with this release or leave a comment or reaction on discussions.

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