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From: jason-tuhs@shalott.net
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org, coff@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [COFF] Also, a video service
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 22:09:47 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.22.394.2002092151450.22679@waffle.shalott.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200209225638.GG75158@eureka.lemis.com>


>> All, I've also set this up to try out for the video chats:
>> https://meet.tuhs.org/COFF
>> Password to join is "unix" at the moment.

> Just tried it out.  On FreeBSD I get a blank grey screen.  I could
> only get something more on a Microsoft box, not quite what I'd want to
> do.  Is there some trick?

* Install /usr/ports/net-im/jitsi.  (Comment out the BROKEN line from the 
Makefile and "make install" should work as usual; the source can actually 
be fetched just fine...)

* kldload cuse

* Run firefox and surf to that URL.

After doing this, I surfed to that URL and was connected, with the video 
from my webcam displaying in the browser.

     hashbrown/home/jason-124575: uname -a
     FreeBSD hashbrown 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE r357056 JKERN12  amd64

For what it's worth, the webcam identifies itself as vendor:product 
0x046d:0x0825, which, according to https://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat 
is a Logitech C270 HD.  I think I paid about $20 USD for it, five or so 
years ago.  The quality is quite sufficient for video conferencing, and it 
works with webcamd, vlc, and all the other software that I typically run 
on my FreeBSD desktop.  As always, YMMV...


  -Jason


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-10  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-09  0:48 [TUHS] " Warren Toomey
2020-02-09  2:02 ` Warren Toomey
2020-02-09 22:56 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-02-09 23:21   ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-10  3:35     ` Wesley Parish
2020-02-13 23:41       ` [TUHS] jitsi on FreeBSD (was: Also, a video service) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-02-10  6:09   ` jason-tuhs [this message]
2020-02-13 23:43     ` [TUHS] Video service " Greg 'groggy' Lehey

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