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  • until we find a good solution here for multistreaming, we developed such a strategy which is succesfull until now.

    We installed custom jitsi server(s) for event specific jitsi rooms up to 200 participants only the presenters and moderators videos are on, thats usually 1-4 videos. If there are more attendants we use multi rooms for the same conference. (with some important settings to jitsi now it can handle more users.)
    We send the main room to youtube as a live stream. (Through OBS studio or other online apps as we didnt install jibri yet and may be we will not need jibri.)
    The youtube stream is also taken in to the event page for the event members who doesnt want to join to the VC and also for the public (if the event is allowed for public audience).
    During this time of my research about multistreaming I learned that it is not an easy task. There needs to be the capability of multiple video streams based on the clients internet speeds like youtube does.
    If you want to make serious VC events with hundreds of participants you need (very) good hardware and network. And it is important to understand the difference of single video streams (zoom) and multiple video streaming protocols (jitsi: webrtc). I can share my experience about it too.

    (If needed you may make your video unlisted at youtube, in this case it will be seen in your events page, but not at youtube.)

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    • That's a nice workaround. And yes, you're right - streaming to hundreds/thousands of participants is an entirely different challenge compared to video-calls or small meetings. In fact we've helped to build a solution for https://www.brainxchange.com/connectworx in collaboration with Google, Wowza and BrainXchange teams - which is great solution for large multi-stage conferences already used by very high-profile clients. The thing is that it's a high-cost solution, which requires a lot of resource allocation for servers, licenses and monitoring. I highly recommend it for enterprise-level events and the team operating it is amazing. I believe they price it from $5000 per event, which is a great value if you're at that level of scale. 

      If, however, you're looking for a solution to start small, grow gradually and have continuous availability of streaming features at minimal cost, then we need to work out a more affordable and accessible solution.