Sharing: You need pulse audio 1.0 and above to support audio share

[kendal-pioneer]

pulseaudio-utils-32bit-16.1-1.2.x86_64 libpulse0-32bit-16.1-1.2.x86_64 alsa-plugins-pulse-1.2.7.1-2.2.x86_64 pulseaudio-setup-16.1-1.2.x86_64 alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit-1.2.7.1-2.2.x86_64 libpulse-mainloop-glib0-16.1-1.2.x86_64 libpulse0-16.1-1.2.x86_64 pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.58-1.1.x86_64
pipewire-spa-tools-0.3.58-1.1.x86_64 pipewire-0.3.58-1.1.x86_64 libpipewire-0_3-0-0.3.58-1.1.x86_64 pipewire-tools-0.3.58-1.1.x86_64 pipewire-alsa-0.3.58-1.1.x86_64 pipewire-spa-plugins-0_2-0.3.58-1.1.x86_64 pipewire-modules-0_3-0.3.58-1.1.x86_64 pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.58-1.1.x86_64
My system is openSUSE Tumbleweed
And it uses pipewire-pulseaudio

[probonopd]

Can you try on a system without Wayland and without PipeWire?

[kendal-pioneer]

It works correctly

[probonopd]

Thanks for confirmin @kendal-pioneer. I am not interested in investing any time in Wayland but if someone cares enough to send a pull request I will consider it, as long as it doesn't break Xorg.

Wayland advocates keep telling me that Wayland works nicely without PipeWire but in practice it breaks every time I try. Seems to be very fragile.

[probonopd]

PLEASE NOTE: In general, you should download AppImages only from the original authors of the software (here: https://zoom.us/), but since they are not yet providing one I am offering this here. Please contact them if you would like to see an official one.

[myownfriend]

@kendal-pioneer
The issue you experienced isn't with Wayland, it's just with Pipewire's PulseAudio plugin. Wayland doesn't have anything to do with audio. Try it with Pipewire again and if the issue still exists then bring if up on Pipewire's repository so they can work on it.

Probo doesn't really know what Wayland and Pipewire are or how they relate to each other. He saw "Pipewire" and since he's only heard of Pipewire when talking about Wayland, he assumed you're using Wayland. Since he thinks Wayland breaks everything, he saying it's the issue here even though it can't be.

Now he's using this issue you opened about an audio problem as an example in his thread to try to push a boycott of something that's part of Linux's graphics stack.

[probonopd]

Well. I'd suggest to try on a system without Wayland and without Pipewire and see whether it works correctly there. ;-)

[myownfriend]

@probonopd yes because they would be using PulseAudio directly instead of Pipewire's Pulse plugin. There was never a chance it had anything to do with Wayland because Wayland has nothing to do with audio.

You could have suggested they try Zoom on Windows and it would have worked, too. That way Pulse, Linux, and AppImage would be removed from the equation, too. It wouldn't have meant that you figured out the problem though.

Looking up the issue shows that most people fixed it by installing pulseaudio-utils.

This is what being actually helpful looks like 😊

[kendal-pioneer]

Actually if I just ignore the zoom warning/notification and although I don't get the option to share audio with video check box
I know it does actually work, regardless

[myownfriend]

Oh! I didnt realize it was working regardless of the error message lol Glad it worked!