Zoom works just fine. Again I use it on a daily basis for work on chromium and even screen sharing works great.
— Antoine > On 2 Aug 2021, at 20:55, Jonathan Drews <jondr...@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 >
