Bug 246214 - www/chromium microphone does not work with Microsoft Teams
Summary: www/chromium microphone does not work with Microsoft Teams
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-chromium mailing list
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2020-05-05 06:52 UTC by Graham Perrin
Modified: 2020-06-02 09:29 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (chromium)

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Screenshot of Teams (144.64 KB, image/png)
2020-05-05 06:58 UTC, Graham Perrin 		no flags Details
Comparative screenshot of Talky (72.85 KB, image/png)
2020-05-05 06:59 UTC, Graham Perrin 		no flags Details
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Description Graham Perrin 2020-05-05 06:52:32 UTC 
With the 'Meet now' feature of Teams: 

* the webcam can be switched on
* no microphone is found. 

### Environment

root@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ # sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=2
hw.snd.default_unit: 1 -> 2
root@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ # date ; uname -v
Tue May  5 07:47:55 BST 2020
FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #54 r360237: Fri Apr 24 09:10:37 BST 2020     root@momh167-gjp4-8570p:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC-NODEBUG 
root@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ # pkg query '%o %v %R' chromium
www/chromium 81.0.4044.129 FreeBSD
root@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ # 

HP EliteBook 8570p
<https://web.archive.org/web/20150906211950/http://www8.hp.com:80/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04163744.pdf>
Comment 1 Graham Perrin 2020-05-05 06:58:12 UTC 
Created attachment 214146 [details]
Screenshot of Teams
Comment 2 Graham Perrin 2020-05-05 06:59:32 UTC 
Created attachment 214147 [details]
Comparative screenshot of Talky

For comparison, a Talky room: 

<https://talky.io/freebsd-www-chromium-246214>
Comment 3 Graham Perrin 2020-05-08 10:15:02 UTC 
Compare with this info, from Maciej Suszko, whose Chromium on 12.1-STABLE on a Thinkpad T460 _does_ work with a microphone: 

* <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2020-May/289223.html>
* <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2020-May/289224.html>

----

Here: 

$ date ; uname -v
Fri  8 May 2020 11:12:33 BST
FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #55 r360732: Thu May  7 09:31:34 BST 2020     root@momh167-gjp4-8570p:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC-NODEBUG 
$ cat /dev/sndstat
Installed devices:
pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> (play)
pcm1: <IDT 92HD81B1X (Analog 2.0+HP/2.0)> (play/rec)
pcm2: <IDT 92HD81B1X (Analog)> (play/rec) default
pcm3: <USB audio> (play/rec)
No devices installed from userspace.
$ sysctl hw.snd.default_unit
hw.snd.default_unit: 2
$ pkg info chromium | head -23
chromium-81.0.4044.138
Name           : chromium
Version        : 81.0.4044.138
Installed on   : Fri May  8 02:32:33 2020 BST
Origin         : www/chromium
Architecture   : FreeBSD:13:amd64
Prefix         : /usr/local
Categories     : java www
Licenses       : LGPL21, BSD3CLAUSE, MPL11
Maintainer     : chromium@FreeBSD.org
WWW            : https://www.chromium.org/Home
Comment        : Google web browser based on WebKit
Options        :
        ALSA           : on
        CODECS         : on
        CUPS           : on
        DEBUG          : off
        DRIVER         : on
        KERBEROS       : on
        PULSEAUDIO     : off
        SNDIO          : off
        TEST           : off
Shared Libs required:
$ 

Microphone working with <https://www.onlinemictest.com/> but not with Teams.
Comment 4 Emanuel Haupt freebsd_committer 2020-06-02 09:29:47 UTC 
The microphone is working for me, however audio is very choppy. I the terminal I see countless lines such as:

[40702:377929728:0602/095857.851710:ERROR:h264_bitstream_parser.cc(206)] Streams with pred_weight_table unsupported.
[40702:377929728:0602/095857.851715:ERROR:h264_bitstream_parser.cc(206)] Streams with pred_weight_table unsupported.
[40702:377929728:0602/095857.851720:ERROR:h264_bitstream_parser.cc(206)] Streams with pred_weight_table unsupported.
[40702:369631232:0602/095857.954359:ERROR:h264_bitstream_parser.cc(206)] Streams with pred_weight_table unsupported.
[40702:369631232:0602/095857.954378:ERROR:h264_bitstream_parser.cc(206)] Streams with pred_weight_table unsupported.
[40702:369631232:0602/095857.954384:ERROR:h264_bitstream_parser.cc(206)] Streams with pred_weight_table unsupported.
[40702:369631232:0602/095857.954390:ERROR:h264_bitstream_parser.cc(206)] Streams with pred_weight_table unsupported.