Trying to use the voice and video chat plugin for Google Chrome.
In set up when the camera is detected, USB audio source (camera) is detected when selected.
When selected the cameras microphone works for a few seconds then stops.
Things I have done. Made myself a member of group audio. I have gone into alsamixer and verified the gain is set up on the USB audio device capture.
I went into “audio set up” in kmix and set the audio from the camera is the preferred recording device.
Doesn’t matter what system I use of the many I have running openSUSE this is the case on all of them. I’ve tried this with three different webcams with the same result. I believe this is a openSUSE problem not a Google Chrome problem.
I am highly frustrated by this. I should be able to use this plugin to Chrome on openSUSE.
If you have pavucontrol running when this happens, does it give you any hints ?
Have you checked to ensure no other application has seized control of the mic (by listing open files associated with that device) ? Do you need help to check that ?
I edited the file in /home/user/.config/google-googletalkplugin/ named options.
the first line to"audio-flags=1" The value it had was 15
It seems to be working, Google’s settings are too aggressive.
While the output seems to be low it’s working.
Someone I know has the same problem on Fedora. They are going to try it.