Virtual background not working as of last update on multiple machines.
I have a thinkpad T470 and T480 that I have used for work, including Zoom meetings, for a while now, and have had no issues until over the past weekend, which was the first time I used Zoom since the lastest update (22 March). Using either laptop, I would get a black screen when unmuting my video feed (to be clear, it is my video feed that is completely black; not my actual screen). When I open up the video settings, it fills in a still snapshot from the webcam, but not a live feed. Closing and reopening the settings refreshes the still image.
After a bit of experimentation, I figured out that the video feed works fine when disabling the virtual background. I can also use the virtual background with the "I have a green screen" enabled and get a live feed, but since I don't actually have a green screen, the background image is not properly applied.
Again, I have the same behavior on multiple laptops, and Zoom was working fine prior to the past update on both laptops.
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arash-m commented on 2024-09-15 15:56 (UTC)
Tested 6.2.0-1. Sharing works for me, but it still crashes after stopping. The workaround for me is still downgrading pipewire and libpipewire to 1.0.7 before meetings.
a172 commented on 2022-06-13 14:25 (UTC) (edited on 2022-06-13 14:25 (UTC) by a172)
@edh - That's not the answer I was hoping for (I was really hoping we could get it to launch without xwayland), but at least I know I'm not missing something.
Some
~/.config/zoomus.conf
updates:qt5-webengine
installed, and theebeddedBrowserForSSOLogin
line doesn't exist in my configzoomus.conf
. SSO login works just fine (issues with Firefox containers aside).pipewire-pulse
.system.audio.type
defaulted toalsa
for me (or I changed it without realizing it). I probably could have installedpipewire-alsa
and fixed my issues, but I setsystem.autio.type=pulse
(a lucky guess) and this worked. This should work for anyone using straight PulseAudio as well.If anyone finds documentation on
~/.config/zoomus.conf
, please let us know.edh commented on 2016-08-26 11:03 (UTC) (edited on 2017-03-09 10:48 (UTC) by edh)