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bug#53301: Ungoogled-chromium lacks VP8 codec support preventing jitsi s


From: Jacob Hrbek
Subject: bug#53301: Ungoogled-chromium lacks VP8 codec support preventing jitsi screensharing
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 10:27:23 +0000

See forwarded message

Steps to reproduce:
0. Get ungoogled-chromium
1. Open a call on jitsi e.g. https://jit.si/ILoveKreyren2Much
2. Start a screenshare
3. Join the call from a different browser and expect the screenshare to malfunction either with tab crashing with "Aw, snap" or the screen share changing on black screen and chromium printing this to the console:

[18990:23:0116/111829.036853:ERROR:webrtc_video_engine.cc(3446)] Absent receive stream; ignoring clearing encoded frame sink for ssrc 0
[18990:12:0116/111836.246422:ERROR:video_stream_encoder.cc(1827)] Failed to encode frame. Error code: -7
[18990:12:0116/11 1834.601625:ERROR:video_stream_encoder.cc(1149)] Failed to initialize the encoder associated with codec type: VP8 (1)

I assume that we need to include VP8 codec

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: Jitsi Meet Screen Sharing with Ungoogled-Chromium
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 11:24:28 +0100
From: Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz>
To: help-guix@gnu.org


> Third party not a guix package

Those are not supported by GNU Guix and will be met with hostility, because how dare you unfree scum!

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Good thing that i ain't a bad person.. not part of GNU Guix to help! :p

Last time i tried it it worked out-of-the-box for me, i tested it now again and also works without problem

GNU Guix (374fea0f3bc8035f626cb29e6045130df9ffdaf8) with ungoogled-chromium-97.0.4692.71-1

Which was tested on the https://meet.jit.si instance.. Provide a _javascript_ console log which should have an explanation for this failure.. My current hypothesis is that your chromium doesn't provide a sufficient/sane TURN server and so jitsi crashes.

See https://serverfault.com/questions/591837/how-does-chrome-webrtc-select-which-turn-server-to-use-if-multiple-options-are-g on how to change the turn server.

..and to comply with GNU FSDG i have to t ell you that using non-ungoogled chromium and 3rd party repos is unethical as it most likely contains nonfree blobs which limit user freedom and contain malware as such i am providing content of ~/.config/chromium in attachment which should make your chromium more libre and i am also encouraging you to use ungoogled-chromium.

EDIT: I missed the part with screensharing x.x .. on mentioned chromium it starts printing:

[18990:23:0116/111829.036853:ERROR:webrtc_video_engine.cc(3446)] Absent receive stream; ignoring clearing encoded frame sink for ssrc 0
[18990:12:0116/111836.246422:ERROR:video_stream_encoder.cc(1827)] Failed to encode frame. Error code: -7
[18990:12:0116/111834.601625:ERROR:video_stream_encoder.cc(1149)] Failed to initialize the encoder associated with codec type: VP8 (1)

in the console when i hav e screenshare and when someone joins and the screen share changes to a black screen so i believe that this is a bug due to the lack of sufficient VP8 codec.

On 1/16/22 10:46, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
Is there anyone here who uses Jitsi Meet to share screens from Guix?  Let me know!

At least in version 90 of chromium (third party, not a guix package), it used to work.

With the current ungoogled-chromium on Guix, the moment someone else connects to the Jitsi session, ungooogled-chromium dies with an 'aw, snap' message.

-Yasu
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Jacob Hrbek

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