813382 - gUM - selecting audio and viewing your available devices - all devices are listed as default, not the device name

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: WebRTC: Audio/Video, defect, P1)

Description

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Steps:

1. On a linux OS, go to http://mozilla.github.com/webrtc-landing/gum_test.html
2. Select audio with an integrated and USB mic hooked up
3. Select the dropdown menu

Expected:

Device names should be seen for each input device in the linux special case - we should be doing something similar to chrome here, which on a per input device basis although provides multiple audio devices choices per input device, still gives the name explicitly.

Actual:

All device names to be selected are listed as default. On Ubuntu 12, this basically makes it impossible to distinguish exactly which device you want to choose to use.

Comment 1

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

Can you provide a list of what it shows on your system?  clipped screenshot would be ok.  I think my Fedora 17 shows something different

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Randell Jesup [:jesup] from comment #1)
> Can you provide a list of what it shows on your system?  clipped screenshot
> would be ok.  I think my Fedora 17 shows something different

The doorhanger prompt basically looked something like:

default (1)
default (2)
default (3)
...

and so on.

I'll try to get a literal screenshot, but that's high-level what you'll end up seeing.

Comment 3

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

I get "
Share Microphone: default (1)
Share Microphone: HD webcam 615, USB Audio-default audio device (2)
Share Microphone: HD webcam 615, USB Audio-Front Speakers (3)
Share Microphone: HD webcam 615, USB Audio-4.0 Surround... (4)
Share Microphone: (5)
Share Microphone: (6)
Share Microphone: Intel PCH, ALC658VC Analog-default audio device (7)
Share Microphone: Intel PCH, ALC658VC Analog-Front Speakers (8)
Share Microphone: (9)
Share Microphone: (1)
....

We get a bunch of log messages from ALSA which imply some devices can't be set up 

So, we likely need to provide default strings (/dev/foo) if none are supplied, not that they're very useful to the user, and make sure those are real, usable devices.

Comment 4

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

We *could* go out like this (and linux is a small part of our userbase), but it really should be at least improved - p1

Comment 5

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

Much of this has been resolved (all called 'default'), but it still shows devices with no names

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Attachment: screenshot

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 ID:20130823004003 CSet: 3eb09b0574d8

It's not a perfect screenshot given that the audio selection menupopup closes when I hit the print button on the keyboard. But the content is still visible even its transparent.

As you can see a couple of items are still empty, and others are totally unclear to me. Whenever I start a call I don't know which of those entries I have to choose from. When I choose e.g. my headset, all audio is still going through the internal speakers and microphone.