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      • Josele13J Offline
        Josele13
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        Is there a possible solution for devices using android drivers?

        regards....

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          AppLee @Josele13
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          @Josele13
          Yes, to create a native app.

          And that's not an easy task. Contributors are welcome to help add this feature to Fluffychat or Teleports 😉

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            Josele13 @AppLee
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            @AppLee Fluffychat is an option, in Telegram you can not because it does not allow video calls, you can send a short video recording,

            thank you very much...

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              rocket2nfinity @AppLee
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              @AppLee Above my digital paygrade. But, I can contribute $ to a pool to hire someone who can....

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                FluffyChat aka Matrix is probably not possible either as Matrix just wraps Jitsi Meet and that is a WebRTC app.

                I think the easiest would be to port the Mumble app. It is already made in desktop qt5 and uses native but audio only communication.

                But how about Anbox? Does it allow camera access?

                Fairphone 5 (waiting for port)

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                  AppLee @poVoq
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                  @poVoq said in Status of videochat in UT:

                  But how about Anbox? Does it allow camera access?

                  AFAIK Anbox has only access to the network.
                  I don't know how we could translate and toggle permissions from android to UT ; I don't think this is possible.

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                    dobey @poVoq
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                    @poVoq said in Status of videochat in UT:

                    FluffyChat aka Matrix is probably not possible either as Matrix just wraps Jitsi Meet and that is a WebRTC app.

                    WebRTC is only a protocol. It does not necessarily require a browser to implement it.

                    @poVoq said in Status of videochat in UT:

                    But how about Anbox? Does it allow camera access?

                    No, it cannot access camera or mic, and is not hardware accelerated. And nobody is currently working on this either.

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                      rocket2nfinity
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                      I'm curious, could libertine be used to provide V4L and camera access?

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                        dobey @rocket2nfinity
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                        @rocket2nfinity said in Status of videochat in UT:

                        I'm curious, could libertine be used to provide V4L and camera access?

                        No. Libertine is not a VM. It doesn't change how the drivers work, nor device access. On Android based devices, camera access must go through the HAL.

                        One could theoretically build a tool to translate v4l access through the Android HAL, but it would be a significant amount of work, may affect performance, and is fairly complex. I don't think anyone is working on such a thing.

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                          rocket2nfinity
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                          Maybe some of these ideas will help?

                          https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=209121

                          https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/droidcam/

                          Apparently there is a group already working on a solution to access the camera from the android HAL and present it to Linux:

                          "provides a set of interfaces to libcamera for existing applications; they will include a V4L compatibility layer, an Android HAL interface, and a GStreamer interface. The intent is to make libcamera suitable for all Linux-based devices." https://lwn.net/Articles/794555/

                          https://libcamera.org/docs.html

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