If this is not the most appropriate forum for an issue using meet.jit.si with 14.2, chromium, webcam, and microphones please point me to the better forum. My post asking for help on the jitsi community forum has gone unasnsered.

I want to use jitsi for business video conferences, specifically meet.jit.si. Using the latest chromium browser I can start a meeting with my Logitech C925e web cam and watch myself futzing with the application trying to get it to use a microphone. I've tried the three I have and each time the meeting application tells me it cannot connect to the mic and doesn't know why. This despite pavucontrol showing each microphone working when I turn it on.

The three mics I have here are on the Yamaha CM500 headset, the Logitech webcam, and a stand-alone Audio-Technica AT2500USB.

I found a closed thread on github from a few years ago addressing this same issue but without a solution that worked here.

All ideas, suggestions, recommendations and other advice are welcome.

Rich

Don't know for sure but I think this a Chromium bug. Try with Firefox to see if the problem persists. Also, make sure the input in settings is set to pulse. Might also be a good idea to set the pulseaudio defaults before calling the browser.

pactl list sources will list your mics.

On my system I use:
pactl set-default-sink 'alsa_input.usb-046d_HD_Pro_Webcam_C920_2D3F132F-02.analog-stereo'

Finally, I once cleared a difficult bug with pulseaudio by deleting the user config and recreating the pulseaudio daemon falling back to system wide defaults:

mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/pulseaudio.old
rm -rf /home/maurice/.config/pulse
pulseaudio -k

Hope this helps.

Not much help here, rather a report that it can work ...

With google-chrome-83.0.4103.61 all worked first go (except camera which I'd forgotten to plug in). When I first went to the meet.jit.si site there was a popup asking for permission to access video & audio devices. I presume you set these to give permission?

With mozilla-firefox-68.8.0esr there was initially no video or audio due to permissions _not_ being requested. Turns out you need to allow the permission to be asked for in Preferences->Privacy & Security, look for Permissions section where you'll find a Settings button for Camera & Microphone in each of which you'll need to UNcheck the "Block new requests asking to access your camera" setting. The next time you try to set up video & audio in the browser app., the relevant permission request is popped up for you to give access permission. Video & audio devices found OK after that was set.

With chromium-64.0.3282.140 - quite old now - permissions popup appeared immediately with video and audio devices then found OK.

In all cases, video device is a Logitech C910 USB camera and microphone is the camera's built in mic. Other audio devices as "published" by PulseAudio are also available & selectable from within the browser app.

Interestingly, when I tried Seamonkey, it gave a message saying:

"It looks like you're using a browser we don't support.
Please try again with the latest version of Chrome or Firefox"

I wonder what that means for your Chromium browser? Is chromium considered "equivalent enough" to Chrome? Mine both connect and seem to work but maybe Chromium is not perfect ...


chris