Re: Making MS teams work on openbsd

On 2023-01-20 17:25, Divan Santana wrote:
> Thomas Frohwein <tfrohwein@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 10:19:25PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote:
>>> Greetings friends :)
>>>
>>> In short MS teams works via chrome on openbsd7.2 for me except for
>>> the
>>> camera.
>>
>> I was on an MS Teams meeting a few weeks ago with camera working. The
>> main issue from my experience was the web client auto disconnecting
>> after a while.
>
>
> I guess it's somewhat hardware based.
>
>
>> (The camera with webrtc works fine for other sites, just not teams)
>>>
>>> The screen share too works, but not the camera. It detects the
>>> camera,
>>> but when you try switch it on, it remains black.
>>
>> I've seen testing/preview camera output being just a black rectangle,
>> but
>> it worked in the meeting itself.
>
>
> Yeah for me, it's black in screen preview and when one goes into the
> meeting it doesn't work immediately with something like
>
> "Your camera stopped working" says teams...
>
> Shortly after visiting teams I went to jitsi in the same chrome
> browser.
>
> When I joined the meeting, my openbsd72 system froze with the fans
> making lots of noise. That also happens sometimes to me.
>
> This is with export ENABLE_WASM=1 on.
>
> My camera is via usb:
>
> Jan 19 22:01:24 swift /bsd: uvideo0 at uhub1 port 9 configuration 1
> interface 0 "Logitech Webcam C310" rev 2.00/0.12 addr 5
>
> But generally the camera normally works in chrome at jitsi and other
> sites.
>
>
> Creating a virtual camera with lower specs, may be worth a shot.
>
> Any workaround is better then nothing, painful or not.

Perhaps doing up a package of Jami for BSDs would be a cleaner/better
option?
I wouldn't pollute my harddrive with anything MS, quite frankly.
For me, straightaway that would be a security issue, at the least.

https://jami.net/

Cheers!