Enable Video Call Feature 📹 👨‍🦰

[kothariji]

Description

To add a video conferencing feature, to the meeting so that everybody can virtually interact with each other.

[kotwani2883]

Kindly assign this to me as a part of GSSOC'21.

[kothariji]

Hi @kotwani2883, First of all, thank you so much for taking out the time to work on this issue.

Definitely 🙌, Please go forward to work on this issue. I am assigning this Issue to you 👍

And last but not least,
Keep Contributing 🙏🔥

[kotwani2883]

Kindly clarify the following-
1.Do I need to add a button,on clicking which the user can enable video calling feature?If yes in the navbar or somewhere else
2.The functionality is to implemented using webrtc or anything else is suggested.
Thanks.

[Vishv07]

Webrtc would be nice.
But it would be better If we can implement or roll out this feature after the login/signup module.

[kothariji]

Kindly clarify the following-
1.Do I need to add a button,on clicking which the user can enable video calling feature?If yes in the navbar or somewhere else
2.The functionality is to implemented using webrtc or anything else is suggested.
Thanks.

1. Yes, there should be a video and mic button, which on click should toggle the audio/video of the user. For now, we can place it on the navbar, but where will you show the video screens of the other participants ? in the bottom of the SyntaxRoom(the meeting room) or on a different page. ?
2. I think Web-RTC is preferred(as mentioned by @Vishv07 also) because it is kind of a standard practice when doing real time communications in the browser. Also there are alternatives to that like Twilio etc, but those are paid, so I think for now we are good to go with Web-RTC. Also, we can use simple-peer npm package. It will make the work easier.

Also soon mentors will give there opinion too for this 🙌

[Vishv07]

Agreed👍 @kothariji

[akash-salvi]

Hi @kotwani2883, any updates?

[subhangi2731]

assign me this please

[Nishant127]

Sorry @subhangi2731, currently the issue is on hold.