Microphone slow to activate in Firefox on Linux in Google Meet
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(Core :: WebRTC: Audio/Video, defect)
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(Reporter: lee.hambley, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0
Steps to reproduce:
Join a Google Meet using Firefox on Linux (some evidence that this is also affecting macOS users) and observe that although the little mic indicator dances, the others on the call cannot hear you for a few seconds (as much as 10+)
Verified on multiple distros (from my company, Fedora, Arch and Ubuntu) across various recent versions of Firefox (at least, the last 6 months), with various hardware (from bluetooth headsets, through professional grade mics and external amps, and everything in between)
Actual results:
The mic takes ten or more seconds to be audible for the other participants even though the indicator suggests that Firefox is receiving audio.
Expected results:
Mic should be audible virtually instantly (subject to mute settings)
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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Experiencing the same issue on macOS Catalina with Firefox Developer Edition. The same thing doesn't happen when using Google Chrome.
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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In a 1:1 we could not reproduce that today in a meet. (leaving, rejoining, spending no time on the join lobby (in case that lobby time contributes to mic warmup or not?)
It doesn't seem relevant given the macOS Cataline report from Ed, but here's my pulse audio version, and the same from one colleague.
me -
$ dnf list installed | grep pulse
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.x86_64 1.2.2-1.fc32 @fedora
pulseaudio.x86_64 13.99.1-4.fc32 @updates
pulseaudio-libs.x86_64 13.99.1-4.fc32 @updates
pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 13.99.1-4.fc32 @updates
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth.x86_64 13.99.1-4.fc32 @updates
pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 13.99.1-4.fc32 @updates
pulseaudio-utils.x86_64 13.99.1-4.fc32 @updates
colleague -
extra/pulseaudio 13.0-3 [installed]
A featureful, general-purpose sound server
We're going to do more testing today in multi-person group-chats.
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Comment 5•4 years ago
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Just tried in 3 person chat (all different distros, all latest firefox) and the audio is working INSTANTLY since today.
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Comment 6•4 years ago
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Confirmed more and more today, more and more colleagues reporting that this now works fine. Something happened over the weekend, or since Friday at least, seems like.
Probably this can be closed, but I will leave it open until someone from moz feels like cleaning it up.
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Comment 7•4 years ago
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It seems that it was a Meet issue, check here. I will dup it on 1636614. Thank you all for confirming.
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