Hello!
Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.cour...@inria.fr> skribis:
> As of commit c582be4c38596a6a31a39c6799723dcd8b6eb909 (Sept. 23),
> ungoogled-chromium fails to grab images from my webcam (for instance in
> BigBlueButton instances), printing this message repeatedly:
>
> [4685:3:0924/102919.814053:ERROR:video_stream_encoder.cc(1762)] Failed to
> encode frame. Error code: -7
For the record, this is still the case with:
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$ guix describe
Generacio 194 Nov 07 2021 23:40:30 (nuna)
guix bd41e59
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: bd41e590dd24e54797fb8b6854c244efd4d12df5
$ guix package -A ungoogled
ungoogled-chromium 95.0.4638.69-1 out gnu/packages/chromium.scm:489:2
ungoogled-chromium-wayland 95.0.4638.69-1 out
gnu/packages/chromium.scm:957:2
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> I found that an older generation (Aug. 30) works for me:
>
> guix time-machine --commit=f91ae9425bb385b60396a544afe27933896b8fa3 -- \
> environment --ad-hoc ungoogled-chromium -- chromium
Still my preferred workaround. :-)
Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> I'm fighting ungoogled chromium for something unrelated, but I noticed I
> needed to add thirdparty/libusb to %preserved-third-party-files to get
> it to build headless for me. Perhaps it tries to reach out directly to
> the webcam through usb itself?
I don’t know, not sure how to debug this.
Marius, do you have ideas of things to look at?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
