Galene

What Galene is

Galene is a free videoconference system with a browser client and self-hosted server for lectures, conferences, tutorials and meetings. The server supports arbitrary audio and video streams, multiple codecs, simulcast and scalable video coding for VP8 and VP9. Its web client provides conferencing, text chat, screen and window sharing, background blur, activity detection, moderation and peer-to-peer file transfer, and can broadcast media from disk. Authentication includes usernames and passwords or token authorization. An HTTP administrative API manages groups and users, while WHIP, LDAP, an RTMP frontend for OBS Studio, an experimental SIP bridge and a sample authorization server are listed integrations. Traffic is encrypted between senders, the server and receivers, but media is decrypted by the server, so calls are not end-to-end encrypted. Galene estimates about 300 lecture participants per CPU core and around 20 participants in one many-to-many meeting on one core. The default client bundles third-party assets. It supports recent WebRTC browsers and is available for web, Windows, Android, iOS and self-hosting.