Microphone stopped working in Frefox and Chrome

[Tomasz CEDRO]

On 1/23/21 1:54 AM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
> On 1/21/21 3:49 PM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
>> Microphone stopped working in Frefox and Chrome. It works fine with
>> Audacity. I am unable to attend videocalls anymore from a FreeBSD box
>> where is worked fine recently.. no matter if google chat or zoom :-(
>>
>> Did anyone observe such problem?
> 
> It seems something got broken on PulseAudio or Firefox / Chrome. I am 
> working on recent 12.2-RELEASE AMD64. Microphone works in other 
> applications (i.e. Audacity).
> 
> Quick fix is to use OSS backend in OSS over about:config in Firefox:
> media.cubeb.backend                             oss
> media.cubeb.input_voice_routing                 true
> media.cubeb.output_voice_routing                true
> 
> This way we can at least use this crap for work. Until PulseAudio 
> backend is fixed. Several days lost again. F*** Y** Mozilla :-(
> 
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-use-microphone-with-firefox.74292/ 

Rebuilding and reinstalling the pulseaudio-13.0_2 fixed the problem of 
the microphone on both Firefox and Chromium!

Options        :
         ALSA           : off
         AVAHI          : off
         GCONF          : off
         GDBM           : off
         GSETTINGS      : off
         JACK           : off
         SIMD           : on
         SIMPLE         : on
         SOXR           : off
         SPEEX          : off
         TDB            : off
         TEST           : on
         WEBRTC_AEC     : on

This is a PulseAudio problem! Looks like another pkg to lock ;-)

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