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It does that on Linux, too. Likes to mess with PulseAudio settings when you're not looking.
by lima 5y ago
It does that on Linux, too. Likes to mess with PulseAudio settings when you're not looking.
- ghostly_s 5y agoif you've managed to make it thru an entire meeting without crashing or freezing system w/ 100% cpu on linux you're doing better than me.
- jeffbee 5y agoWhy do people use the zoom app on linux? It works fine in the browser, where it is forced to behave itself.
- jethro_tell 5y agoIdk, does the browser do screen sharing now? It didn't last time I used it but I haven't for a minute so I'm not sure if they fixed that. I have a wrapper script that installs, starts the meeting then uninstalls because unfortunately people use it and sometimes I need to contact them.
- curt15 5y agoGallery view doesn't work in Firefox the last time I checked.
- PenguinCoder 5y agoVirtual background doesn't work in the browser.
- bee_rider 5y agoYes the best way to detect if zoom is up to no good on Linux is to listen to my fan or check if my battery is draining unusually fast. Same for Discord.
- HKH2 5y agoI don't get crashing except when I go to share a window and then cancel it without sharing anything. The biggest problem for me is having multicolored noise covering most of the Zoom windows/controls when I'm sharing a window. Also, it takes like ten seconds to share or stop sharing a window.
- Kaze404 5y agoSame as Teams. Once you leave a meeting it keeps listening until you restart.
- jiggawatts 5y agoTeams also likes to mess with the system-level audio device configuration, which just obnoxious. I had to block this for all apps to prevent it randomly changing my volume.
- mnw21cam 5y agoCould you detail how you block apps adjusting the device volume? I'm utterly fed up with Zoom changing the volume to 100% for everything except itself.
- jiggawatts 5y agoNavigate to the "old-school" device properties screen (not the shiny new Windows 10/11 version). Untick the checkbox "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" under the Advanced tab. Exclusive mode is a bit like full-screen for GPUs. DirectX games can do things like override the output color management, gamma ramps, brightness, HDR mode, and even set the "white point" on some displays! Similarly, audio applications can take control of your audio devices in all sorts of ways if permitted. While "full control" of a GPU is still useful, because we're not living in a utopia where all displays are 12-bit HDR all the time, audio has long ago passed the point where direct control delivers tangible benefits. Software mixing is more than capable of "keeping up" even with an absurd number of simultaneous streams at a quality level that vastly exceeds what the human ear can perceive. I found that with Teams, it's more important to turn off direct control of the microphone than the speakers, but I do both just to be on the safe side...
- mnw21cam 5y agoHang on, I thought we were talking about Linux here.
- jacobmartin 5y agoI find `sudo killall -9 zoom` seems to work to stop this. That may be overkill but was just the first thing to occur to me. But I'll probably just sandbox it into my windows VM whenever I bother to set up passthrough on my camera.
- dijksterhuis 5y agoI've never experienced this on Ubuntu 20.04 (and similarly not had any of the experiences mentioned in other child comments). The only pulse audio annoyance happening here is pulse audio itself assuming all my 3.5mm jack headphones have a microphone.
- catfishx 5y agoSame with skype here