6 Jan
2021
6 Jan
'21
5:53 p.m.
On Sun, January 3, 2021 1:27 pm, Andrew A. Grathwohl wrote:
I have a question about my microphone audio quality
when
participating in a browser-based video conference, i.e., Google Meet and
Jitsi on chromium browser.
How does the Google Meet or Jitsi software interact with jackd? Does
chromium support jackd natively now, or are you using pulseaudio jack
module?
Starting last week, I have received numerous reports
from coworkers
that my audio is considerably higher quality than normal.
...
In pursuit of understanding why this is occurring, I
looked at my
JACK2 settings to see if I'd changed anything lately. Sure enough, I
noticed that I have been working at a larger JACK2 hardware buffer size
than normal.
My guess (only a guess, but I would be open to discussion of ways to test
the hypothesis) is that changing the buffer size either reduced dropouts
in the jackd to browser interface (which I assume is probably pulseaudio
jack module, which is known to have some problems at low jack buffer
sizes), or the larger buffer size rippled through to the browser interface
and allowed the meeting software to process fewer buffers, reducing
dropouts in the meeting software somewhere, either browser implementation,
or server (if a central server was used rather than peer-to-peer), or at
the other end of the connection.
--
Chris Caudle