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creese

Member

Registered: 2012-07-21

Posts: 45

No Audio for Google Meet in Firefox

I want to use Google Meet in Firefox, but the audio and video do not work.

Initially, only the mic is recognized. If I open settings, sometimes, I can select the camera. I cannot ever select the "speakers", the only option is "System Default Speaker Device", and no selection in alsamixer gets sound.

This is what I have:
- Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 6
- Firefox 79.0
- Logitech BRIO
- Plantronics headset
- pulseaudio 13.0-3
- pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.2-2
- Arch (5.8.3-arch1-1)

This configuration works fine in Zoom, but that is an app. The problem must be some combination of Google Meet, Firefox, and my system config.

Any idea how to solve?

$ lsusb

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:085e Logitech, Inc. Logitech BRIO
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 06cb:009a Synaptics, Inc. Metallica MIS Touch Fingerprint Reader
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b61e Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Integrated Camera
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0a2b Intel Corp. Bluetooth wireless interface
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 047f:02ee Plantronics, Inc. BT600
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Last edited by creese (2020-08-26 06:00:46)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,064

Re: No Audio for Google Meet in Firefox

You use pulseaudio, so you should control the device things are happening on in pulseaudio, check pavucontrol, maybe post

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during reproduction of this, maybe also the audio table of firefox from "about:support"

FWIW if firefox is currently configured to use ALSA for some reason, that would explain this. This has been an issue forever with firefox's ALSA implementation, that shouldn't hold for the pulse backend though.

Last edited by V1del (2020-08-26 07:10:53)