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Joining a call and not closing the tab results in strange audio driver behaviour #388

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turt2live opened this issue Jun 8, 2022 · 3 comments
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@turt2live
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For entirely unknown reasons, when either participating or previously participating in a call and leaving the tab open other audio issues start to happen. The ones I've noticed are:

  1. YouTube fails to load videos (looks to be a timeout issue)
  2. Jitsi calls can play sound effects, but you cannot hear other people

Closing the element-call tab fixes both issues.

It feels like element-call is getting an exclusive lock on the audio output device which prevents other things (like youtube's player and Jitsi's webrtc stuff) from getting a similar playback lock. If this is the case, element-call could probably get a less dramatic lock and still work.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Participate in an Element Call call.
  2. Leave the call, but don't close the tab.
  3. In another tab, play a youtube video.
  4. Video fails to load.
  5. Close Element Call tab.
  6. Refresh youtube tab
  7. Video plays fine.

Device: Windows 10, Chrome

It is unclear if the audio issues would persist across browsers, or if it's localized to the browser that ran Element Call.

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#267 related

@robintown robintown added T-Defect Something isn't working: bugs, crashes, hangs, vulnerabilities, or other reported problems X-Needs-Investigation labels Jun 8, 2022
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At a glance, I think it'll actually be a duplicate just with different information.

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robintown commented Jun 8, 2022

Closing as such

Duplicate of #267

@robintown robintown closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Jun 8, 2022
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