On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, wes wrote:
To your question, there are a number of reasons ones' OS might be a factor. A big, common one, is related to the technology used to capture and transmit the video and audio data. Most pages on a given website would use HTML for general functions. But the actual video conference would use something very different. Some are fairly open, and work well across OSes. But, if a service was still using Flash, or Silverlight, or some other less open tech, it could introduce compatibility issues. This is because the software the browser uses to support them relies on elements of the underlying OS. And that's all before we even start thinking about things like plugins or extensions interfering.
Wes, As usual a highly informative and useful explanation of deep details. I never considered how incoming audio and video are handled by a web server as I've not before had any reason to. Wonderful insight; I thank you very much.
If you wanted to investigate further, you could give us more info about which service this is and we can check it out.
Conference is over; perhaps the next time they'll use some other platform or other things will be different. I presented from their office and their IT tech taught me how to switch between the conference session web page and powerpoint loaded with my PDF file. I managed to not screw it up during the presentation. :-). Stay well, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
