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Can't use microphone in ungoogled-chromium

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mathieu.lirzin <at> nereide.fr>
Cc: 36961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bkleung89 <at> gmail.com, Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>, Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
Subject: bug#36961: Can't use microphone in ungoogled-chromium
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 23:36:12 +0200

Hi Mathieu,

Mathieu Lirzin <mathieu.lirzin <at> nereide.fr> skribis:

> Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>
>> I have the same issue, but the pavucontrol trick does not do it for me
>> as I have only one microphone (the one of my webcam on my laptop) and
>> it's not muted.
>>
>> ungoogled-chromium complains about an "Error obtaining microphone permission."
>>
>> Note that both the webcam and the microphone work in other contexts
>> (e.g. audacity, appear.in).
>
> Here is a screenshot of the error message I get in chromium with the mic
> activated in pavucontrol.

That’s about granting permission to use the microphone.

Jitsi should have a button to request permission for the web page to use
the microphone or webcam, which in turn should trigger a dialog box from
the browser where you can allow/disallow and choose devices.  Did you go
through that process?

HTH,
Ludo’.

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