On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 15:09 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/10/20 9:49 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I occasionally participate in Zoom calls using my Android tablet, and > > everything Just Works(tm). I'd like to do the same on my desktop with > > Fedora, but despite testing three different cheap webcams the big issue > > is always with the sound. I can hear the other people perfectly, and > > the video is fine, but the audio from my side is muddy and nearly > > impossible to understand. I've tried with and without headphones in > > case it's a feedback issue (though not using the headphone mic). It > > doesn't make any difference. Surely not all the webcam mics can be so > > bad? How would anyone ever use them? > > I've use Zoom and Teams on my Fedora laptop. Using the builtin webcam > and laptop microphone, I haven't had any complaints about the audio. > More recently, I've been using a headset and that's been fine too. I > would definitely recommend a headset over the webcam mic. I didn't > realize that external webcams generally even had microphones. > > A good test would be to use audacity to record some audio and then you > can see for yourself what it sounds like. Already did that (using Cheese and Zoom). poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
