[CentOS] Zoom....

Sun May 10 04:10:09 UTC 2020
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

On 2020-05-10 00:01, mark wrote:
> On 2020-05-09 19:41, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On Sat, 09 May, 2020 at 16:02:17 -0400, mark wrote:
>>> Hi, folks,
>>>
>>>     Updated CentOS 7 the other day. Updated zoom last night. Ancient 
>>> (15 yr
>>> old) USB camera, Logitech QuickCam Express.
>>>
>>>     If I run LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l2convert.so cheese, I 
>>> get video.
>>> Zoom, with or without the LD_PRELOAD - no video. I've tried stracing 
>>> zoom,
>>> and created a file /etc/ld.so.preload, with the contents of
>>> /usr/lib64/libv4l/v4l2convert.so, and in strace, I see it loading it, 
>>> but
>>> still no video.
>>>
>>>     Anyone got any clues? Being a free end user, all zoom offers is the
>>> knowledge base....
>>
>> I recommend installing zoom from flatpak:
>>
>> https://flathub.org/apps/details/us.zoom.Zoom
>>
>> It will pull in the freedesktop runtime, which contains the required
>> libraries. No need to fiddle with LD_PRELOAD and the like.
> 
> I'm thoroughly confused. I've yum removed zoom, then copied the flatpak. 
> rep, then flatpak install 
> https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/us.zoom.Zoom.flatpakref,,, and 
> there's no zoom. Flathub's web pages need something... like, somebody to 
> read them and tell them that they don't explain *ANYTHING*.
> 
Ok, read a little more, started zoom, and test still gives me no video.

	mark