Bug 2224141 - Video Send and Receive does not work
Summary: Video Send and Receive does not work
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: chromium
Version: 38
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: http://teams.microsoft.com
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-07-20 00:09 UTC by Wade Berrier
Modified: 2023-07-27 14:42 UTC (History)
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Description Wade Berrier 2023-07-20 00:09:18 UTC
I played with some hardware video encoding/decoding options, and was able to either send or receive video (I can't remember which), but not both.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up a teams meeting (may require an ms account)
2. copy the teams meeting url
3. join the meeting with that url with chromium
Actual Results:  
chromium browser does not send nor receive video

Expected Results:  
Sending and receiving video would expect to work.

The chromium-freeworld package from rpmfusion would work (that package was deprecated a few months ago).

google-chrome-stable works as expected.

Comment 1 Wade Berrier 2023-07-20 00:25:28 UTC
Also, microsoft "deprecated" the ms teams app (flatpak wrapper app here: https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.IsmaelMartinez.teams_for_linux) in favor of it's "PWA" app (see here for more info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/microsoft-teams-progressive-web-app-now-available-on-linux/ba-p/3669846).

Comments there have suggested that the flatpak version of chromium works with audio and video, but not the fedora version.

Comment 2 Wade Berrier 2023-07-20 00:26:12 UTC
I verified that the flatpak version of chromium does indeed work.

Comment 3 Tom "spot" Callaway 2023-07-20 00:30:55 UTC
I'm betting this is a codec issue, where Fedora cannot enable a needed codec for legal reasons, whereas the profusion/flatpak/Google Chrome builds are not constrained.

It would be useful to see the chromium console output from a fresh Fedora install, but if I'm right, there's nothing we can do here.

Comment 4 Wade Berrier 2023-07-20 03:00:56 UTC
It looks like the context is that chromium-freeworld was discontinued because codecs could be enabled in fedora now:

https://www.mail-archive.com/rpmfusion-developers@lists.rpmfusion.org/msg27275.html

I tried enabling codecs according to:

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

still without any luck.

One difference is that chromium-freeworld seemed to disable vaapi... maybe that would be something to try.  I'll try to get some console output...


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