Re: Working on Zoom port

From: Conrad Meyer <cem_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:47:11 -0700
Hi Matthias,

>From personal experience, receiving Zoom video in conferences with
native www/chromium and the web interface works perfectly fine and has
for some time (at least the last year).  I think, but don't recall if
I personally tried it, that mic support is fine as well.  Audio
playback is fine.

Unfortunately, until recently, the webcam support in our chromium port
was disabled; it is restored in the '80.mumble.163_1' version of the
port.  There have been mixed reports of success (or not) with webcams
in chromium after 163_1; it works ok for some people and there are
flickering issues for others.  I don't have a supported webcam easily
available to test, but would appreciate more data (either "it works
for me," or "it doesn't, in this way") in PR 245505 (
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245505 ).

So, it may work well; it may only work half-duplex for video.  Try it out!

Firefox support may be better; I'm not familiar with the status of our
Firefox port.

Best regards,
Conrad

P.S., the web interface only offers a subset of the full
functionality, so I believe the efforts to port the linux binary
client are valuable.  Still, the web interface works well enough that
it might be an option.  It's what I use at my day job.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:36 AM Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote:
>
> El día lunes, abril 13, 2020 a las 07:32:31p. m. +0300, Alexandr Krivulya escribió:
>
> > Hello!
> > All of you need - a conference ID and probably password. Now you can
> > participate in conference by pressing Join button in zoom client and
> > providing this ID and/or password. Conference ID is part of your url
> > after '/j/' - for example conference url is
> > https://zoom.us/j/111222333?pwd=ejhxhshyocdyaszT9 and conference ID is
> > 111222333. BTW, you can join conference via web-client from browser by
> > url https://zoom.us/wc/join/YOUR-CONFERENCE-ID, but with firefox prior
> > version 77 (nightly) without audio and with chromium without webcam
> > (FreeBSD only, also audio and screen sharing works).
>
> Hello Alexandr,
> Thanks for the kind explanation. With this I understand now the
> invitation data:
>
>     Bernhard S. invites you to a scheduled Zoom-meeting.
>     Zoom-Meeting join
>
>     https://us04web.zoom.us/j/454819xxx?pwd=OUtlOHB4xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxRTk2dz09
>
>     Meeting-ID: 454 819 xxx
>     Passwort: 8xWxxx
>
> And, your port will make the Linux client running on FreeBSD?
>
> Wouldn't it be an option to make video working in chromium on FreeBSD?
>
> Thanks again
>
>         matthias
>
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