[tde-users] Re: [OT] WebRTC & other browsers

Hi all! This is in answer to all the postings in this thread. Anno domini 2021 Fri, 4 Jun 16:44:40 -0500 Michael scripsit: Firefox and all its decendents use the first input source als mic and you cannot select any other. That is true for firfox, waterfox, icecat ... whatever. As the first input source may aor may not be anything real, it renders firefox quite useless for any browserbased (video)conference. It's in the very nature of WebRTC to expose your address, as it's using p2p for 2 client conversation. If that's a problem, don't use it. I myself use tox for secure conferences, but that does not allow videochat for more than 2 parties (well, you can work around that ...). So chrome/chromium is/was the only browser capable of selecting the correct input source. With kernel 5.10.40-1 chromium is not able to so any more for input source served by snd_usb_audio. I do not think it's directly related to snd_usb_audio but to all devices that only present input sources without output sinks like webcams, usb-mics etc., as multiple onboard soundcards and PCI soundcards on the same system are selectable within chromium and they all have source+sink. Looks like a classic "intelligent programmer made a sesible choice" problem to me :/ My workaround is for now: attach a analog mic to the onboard soundcard aka card#0. That mic is then used by firefox and chromium alike. Well, take what you get and run like hell ... aint there a config option for alsa to build assign the default/sysdefault mic to device and the output to an other? Niki -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...