Re: Regarding Openbsd and zoom/hangouts etc

Zoom works just fine. Again I use it on a daily basis for work on chromium and even screen sharing works great.

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Antoine

> On 2 Aug 2021, at 20:55, Jonathan Drews <jondrews@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 07:04:47PM +0300, Riza Dindir wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I amthinking of using openbsd as my OS, and desktop, giving up windows,
>> after I am having trouble updating the system.
>>
>> I have a question. Is it possible to use zoom, hangouts or other
>> conferencing/communication systems using the browser
>> (iridium/chrome/firefox, etc) on openbsd?
>>
> Hi;
>
> Zoom won't owrk on OpenBSD. You can go their test page and try it for
> yourself https://zoom.us/test . Howvever jitsi works great.
>
> Here are my notes on configuring audio and video on OpenBSD, so it
> willwork with jitsi. https://meet.jit.si/
>
> The primary reference is:
>
> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html
> in addition to the man pages.
> To get audio and video working on OpenBSD:
>
> Add yourself to group wheel in /etc/group. Do as root:
> # chmod g+rw /dev/video0
> or whatever your video device is. Find it in dmesg.
>
> In /etc/sysctl.conf (file is in /etc/examples) add:
>
> kern.audio.record=1
> kern.video.record=1
>
> Add the following lines to /etc/mixerctl.conf (mixerctl.conf
> is in /etc/examples).
>
> # $OpenBSD: mixerctl.conf,v 1.1 2014/07/16 13:21:33 deraadt Exp $
> #
> # mixerctl(1) configurable parameters. See mixerctl.conf(5) for
> details.
> #
>
> # output volume value for most audio cards
> # outputs.master=200
> record.enable=on
>
> You'll have to experiment as your laptop may not have the same
> entries as my mixerctl.conf. Invariably they should begin with
> "record." Do # mixerctl -av to find the settings
>
> As an aid in getting your microphone to work use aucat (see man 1
> aucat).
> To do a test recoding do:
> $ aucat -o test.wav
> to play back the rscording, to see if your microphone is working do:
> $ aucat -i test.wav
>
> I have used Jitsi several times from my OpenBSD T420 Laptop. The
> only difficulty was sharing my desktop. Firefox froze when doing
> that. My guess is that happens because of pledge. Video and audio
> worked great. Response times can be bad if you use Jitsi over WiFi.
> I switched to ethernet and my signal strength improved.
>
> To adjust the volume of the microphone and speakers use cmixer.
> cmixer is in packages.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Jonathan
>