Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:06:24 +0000 From: "Dave Cottlehuber" <dch@skunkwerks.at> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Microphone stopped working in Frefox and Chrome Message-ID: <bf2d31d7-3a86-452e-971d-0039cd147602@www.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9025f616-ba3f-ef44-603a-824bd8e4e20a@cedro.info> References: <CAM8r67BLs%2BXWuWB-eqVWang=5MKZ0_9L5J%2BhsM2HO6yJCUJwHQ@mail.gmail.com> <9025f616-ba3f-ef44-603a-824bd8e4e20a@cedro.info>
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On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, at 00:54, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > On 1/21/21 3:49 PM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > > Microphone stopped working in Frefox and Chrome. It works fine with > > Audacity. I am unable to attend videocalls anymore from a FreeBSD box > > where is worked fine recently.. no matter if google chat or zoom :-( > > > > Did anyone observe such problem? > > It seems something got broken on PulseAudio or Firefox / Chrome. I am > working on recent 12.2-RELEASE AMD64. Microphone works in other > applications (i.e. Audacity). > > Quick fix is to use OSS backend in OSS over about:config in Firefox: > media.cubeb.backend oss ^^^ this recent addition/change to firefox is excellent. I can now do video conferencing using my webcam (logitech C920) microphone & camera, and have the audio coming out the USB DAC audio speakers (configured by the usual sysctls). thanks jbeich@ & hps@ for firefox & webcamd that make all of this work. A+ Dave
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