On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 04:57:30PM -0400, Keith Wright wrote:
As I said, I have never (knowingly) used the camera or microphone on this computer, nor even the speaker/headphones.
I been messing with it a bit. When trying to listen to WBUR, it seems random, sometimes works, usually not. Websites that tell you how to pronounce words, I can hear them. Program vlc with a *.mp4, I can hear. I don't know how to test the microphone.
(1) Did you guys see me?
Chuck Anderson <cra@alum.wpi.edu> writes:
Yes we saw you. We also saw and replied to your text chat messages.
Sorry, I stumbled into the text chat, but did not see the reply, probably not because anything was wrong, but because I was busy trying to get the sound working and logged in and out repeatedly without looking for text.
(2) Is the URL https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA still active? Does it work with Microsoft Windows?
I don't know.
The URL is still sitting there. Diane logged in with a MS computer and I with my Linux. We could see each other, mostly, but no sound.
(3) Does HTML5 require DHCP to redirect or forward the data stream?
No. Your stream worked fine.
I'm not so sure. I'm starting to suspect the firewall. I have a lot of blocked IP addresses that have accumulated over the years. I don't know what they are nor recall what they did to offend me years ago. On the other hand, when I start jit.si it has a button that says "Join Meeting", when I click it, it pops up another button that says "Join without sound", no other choice, so I choose that. Maybe it can't find the microphone, so it turns off the loudspeaker? But when it starts up it has a message at the bottom that says: "It sounds like your microphone is working". The Multimedia==> Pulseaudio==>Input device has a jumping blue line that reacts to sounds I make, so I know there is a microphone in there somewhere.
What Debian version are you running? What web browser and version?
kwright@fcs22:~$ uname -a Linux fcs22 4.9.0-12-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.210-1 (2020-01-20) i686 GNU/Linux Help==>About==> Mozilla Firefox Quantum 68.7.0esr (32-bit) Maybe I'll see you next time, but busy websites and video seem to make it overheat even when they sort-of work. I'm a black-and-white Greek subscript kind of guy. If it weren't for the virus I would be happy with TeX, Scheme, and email; I wouldn't be trying to turn my good computer into a bad television. -- Keith