Bug 1651122

Summary:	Cannot start video call in Cisco Spark
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Frank Ansari <mail>
Component:	chromium	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	29	CC:	akarshan.biswas, mail, tcallawa, yaneti
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Description Frank Ansari 2018-11-19 09:11:00 UTC

Description of problem:
When I start a video call with Cisco Spark (https://teams.webex.com/) I get an error message: "Could not acquire local media. Please check you settings".

The webcam is blocked after this. I can then either replug the device or stop Chromium.

This does not happen with Google hangouts for example.

Also I could use an online webcam test without having issues:

https://www.onlinemictest.com/webcam-test/


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
chromium-69.0.3497.100-1.fc29.x86_64

How reproducible:
Start a Cisco Spark call with Chromium browser.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Phone call is initiated.

Expected results:
Webcam is hanging.

Additional info:
Fedora 29 Silverblue.

The issue does not happen with Chrome browser. Also I could test Chromium with Windows and also there this issue does not appear.

Comment 1 Frank Ansari 2018-11-19 09:14:22 UTC

Sorry, I mixed it up:

Actual results:
Webcam is hanging.


Expected results:
Phone call is initiated.

Also one additional note: when I start the call I see the LED of my webcam turns on. But it is hanging. If I try to use "Cheese" after this it does not work because the webcam is blocked by Chromium.

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2018-11-26 16:50:38 UTC

Best guess? The video format that Chromium needs to use Cisco Spark is not enabled in the Fedora Chromium build (for legal reasons). rpmfusion has a "chromium-libs-media-freeworld" replacement package that you could try. If installing that resolves the issue, then, I would suggest that you either use that (or Google Chrome), but I cannot resolve it in the Fedora Chromium.

Comment 3 Frank Ansari 2018-12-21 19:08:22 UTC

Meanwhile I was able to test this. Same error.

I have removed Chromium from my system.

Comment 4 Akarshan Biswas 2018-12-22 18:11:36 UTC

> If I try to use "Cheese" after this it does not work because the webcam is blocked by Chromium.

Seems like a completely different issue to me. Do you face this issue in Google Chrome?

Comment 5 Frank Ansari 2018-12-23 15:29:12 UTC

No, there are no such issues with Chrome.

Disadvantage of Chrome is that you cannot install the rpm package the normal way because files are installed in /opt which is not allowed for rpm packages with Silverblue.

So what I did is I wrote a script which did all the necessary installation steps (rpm2cpio then upnack the cpio and so on) to have a more or less automatic update procedure for Chrome.

Chromium could be an alternative if everything would work - which is obviously not the case.

Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 20:15:59 UTC

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Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 20:28:50 UTC

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