On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 01:32:26PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> As long as the webcam microphone works I'm good to go. I'm just curious why
> a web conference hosting software might recognize the headphone side of the
> Yamaha but not the microphone side. Any ideas from you folks with
> experience?

We had problems setting up Zoom on my wife's computer;
the problem turned out to be her LTS (thus older) version
of Firefox.  That did not properly connect Zoom to the
correct microphone channel.  

Perhaps we could have got that working with enough Firefox
frobbing (many wasted hours).  Instead, we installed the
most recent Google Chrome for our CentOS-derived Linux
distro.  We use Chrome ONLY for a few web-conferencing
apps, while continuing to use LTS Firefox for everything
else, including /most/ websites with passworded logins.   

I don't like using the same app to store passwords and also
for high bandwidth outbound video.  Too many opportunities
for steganographic mischief.

I presume Chromium will also work with Zoom, but haven't
tried it.  Too many other projects needing attention.

Keith

PS: I probably mentioned this before, but our "camera" is
the USB3 camera that came with my Oliwak borescope:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PBW52SF

Difficult to use as a borescope; adjusting the LED
illumination changes from saturated black to saturated
white far too quickly.  The camera works fine as a camera
taped to the top of the monitor, using room lighting.
I plan to void the borescope warranty by replacing the
tiny illumination dial on the side of the borescope
handheld display with a ten-turn potentiometer.

-- 
Keith Lofstrom          [email protected]
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