#62 Adding pulseaudio-qt for Chrome in Kinoite
Closed: Can't fix 2 years ago by rdieter. Opened 2 years ago by rob1972.

Hello,

This weekend I had to use google chrome to participate in a meet session.
I installed the flatpak for chrome from : flatpak remote-add flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo

On kinoite (plasmaX11) the recording audio resulted in a horrible ticking noise on the other participants machines.

After some digging/comparing with my default fedora 34 kde (plasmaX11) desktop I noticed that it had the pulseaudio-qt package which was not present on the kinoite installation.

After adding the pulseaudio-qt package to kinoite the ticking noise was gone.

I think this can be blamed on chrome not being aware of the new pipewire audio setup.
However I suspect this will not be the last application that is not aware of pipewire.

Maybe it's worth considering to add the pulseaudio-qt package to the kinoite configuration to catch these issues. ( or create a faq for known issues and workarounds )

I did not test it on plasma wayland, it kept failing for me on so many cases I reverted to X11.

Rob


Metadata Update from @ngompa:
- Issue assigned to siosm
- Issue set to the milestone: Fedora 35
- Issue tagged with: experience, kinoite

2 years ago

I'm currently using the official Google Chrome RPM withoutpulseaudio-qt installed and things looks mostly good so far. I'll give the Flatpak one a try.

If it's not in Kinoite, it means that no package requests it, which should probably be fixed there (but I don't know which package really needs it).

And thanks for the report!

Hi,
The noise was only heard by the other google meet clients, there was no issue on the kinoite google meet clients, everything seemed to work ok.

However the other participants said they couldn't hear a word I said, and they had to mute me to be able to tell me.

I've had to log in to the meet from another none kinoite device (my mobile) to reproduce it.
Set up a new meet join from kinoite and listen on the other device when the kinoite client turns on it's mic.

Rob

The only thing in fedora that depends on pulseaudio-qt currently is kde-connect.
Does kinoite not include that for some reason? (If it does, pulseaudio-qt should be present)

Otherwise, I have serious doubts pulseaudio-qt plays any role with chrome (it's only a library binding for items that explicitly link it... like kde-connect does)

Any updates/news/evidence on how or why pulseaudio-qt plays any role here? (I'm still skeptical)

For example, when reporter said that installing pulseaudio-qt helps, did that happen to pull in any other dependencies? (Possible one of those made the difference)

Another good test: try removing pulseaudio-qt, does the original problem come back?

Hi,

Sorry, I did not do any further investigation.

This only occurred shortly after fedora34 was released.

Not sure if this was fixed by installing pulseaudio-qt, regular fedora updates or en new release of google chrome.
The problem is no longer present.

It's also a pain to test since the noise can only be heard by others who are also in the meet.
You can't hear it on the kinoite system.

OK, I think we can close this for now. Feel free to re-open or open a new issue when/if the issue happens again.

Metadata Update from @rdieter:
- Issue close_status updated to: Can't fix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

2 years ago

Haven't had the time to try that one yet but will report back when I try.

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