Bug 296527 - net-im/telegram-desktop: video calls don't work
Summary: net-im/telegram-desktop: video calls don't work
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: Dima Panov
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Reported: 2026-07-04 23:22 UTC by Robin Haberkorn
Modified: 2026-07-09 18:38 UTC (History)
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bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (osa)


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Description Robin Haberkorn 2026-07-04 23:22:58 UTC
It's no longer possible to start video calls and there are no cameras in the "Speakers and Cameras" settings. Needless to say the camera still works in other applications like pwcview. I tested with v6.7.5 (2026Q2) and v6.9.3 (main). This used to work, but I am not sure what upgrade exactly broke it.

I have the following WebRTC-related packages installed:

# pkg info | grep -i webrtc
gstreamer1-plugins-webrtc-1.28.1 GStreamer WebRTC plugin
gstreamer1-plugins-webrtcdsp-1.28.1 GStreamer WebRTC Audio Processing plugin
snowflake-tor-2.11.0_7         Pluggable Transport using WebRTC inspired by Flashproxy
tg_owt-0.0.20260309            Webrtc library used by telegram-desktop
webrtc-audio-processing-1.3_1  AudioProcessing module from WebRTC project
Comment 1 Robin Haberkorn 2026-07-05 10:40:04 UTC
It would be interesting to step through webrtc::videocapturemodule::VideoCaptureModuleV4L2::Init() from tg_owt as it should iterate /dev/videoX devices.

I am trying to build from source, but it takes ages every time.
Comment 2 Sergey A. Osokin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2026-07-05 16:16:45 UTC
(In reply to Robin Haberkorn from comment #1)

Hi Robin,
thanks for the report!

There were not too much changes in that area:

https://github.com/desktop-app/tg_owt/tree/master/src/modules/video_capture - no changes for 2-4 years, and in https://github.com/desktop-app/tg_owt/tree/master/src/modules/video_capture/linux - only one fix 7 months ago - https://github.com/desktop-app/tg_owt/commit/d888bc3f79b4aa80333d8903410fa439db5f6696
Comment 3 Sergey A. Osokin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2026-07-09 18:38:09 UTC
Re-assign to the new and shiny maintainer.