Zoom getting an upgrade

[Botspot]

I've been working on upgrading Zoom for a while now.

• It will fix pulseaudio problems:
  For years, Raspberry Pi OS has been notorious for glitching when pulseaudio is installed. Well, pulseaudio was necessary for Zoom to work. So, I made the install script install pulseaudio, and then disable it.
  Times have changed since then, and RPiOS has switched to pulseaudio! As soon as that happened, I removed the pulse-disabling code from the install script, but everyone who installed Zoom prior to that still has a broken Pulseaudio setup.
  So this new Zoom app version will undo those changes and fix everybody's system.
• Also, I'm switching Zoom to use box86-updater, instead of compiling box86. This saves a massive amount of time.
• As Zoom's official download website is back online thanks to this bug report, this script will download from there instead of from my zoom_686_mirror.

Slightly off-topic: There has been a super-popular feature request on Zoom's developer forum site for them to release ARM builds for the Raspberry Pi. It's seemed to me that Zoom Inc. has been ignoring it.
UNTIL I happened to mention it on the download-link-is-broken support thread. A Zoom staff member saw it and says "Thanks @Botspot! :) We will evaluate the demand here."
Cool. I may have just gotten the ball rolling for an official Zoom ARM build by writing that.

[Itai-Nelken]

@Botspot is it possible to make the install script try to download from the zoom website, and if it fails then download from your mirror?

[Botspot]

@Botspot is it possible to make the install script try to download from the zoom website, and if it fails then download from your mirror?

Good idea.

[Botspot]

It turns out the latest version of Zoom 9686 is quite unstable! Out of five tries, it crashed upon joining a meeting three of those tries.

And, it's crashing 100% of the time when you click on Share Screen.

Because of this, the Zoom app will continue using my zoom_686_mirror. Yes the client is outdated, but it actually works.

[Botspot]

New Zoom App version uploaded with commit 6026e18.

[fabianmendes]

I can't hear anything, should I install PulseAudio... right? The thing is that installation Bluetooth headphones is a madness

[Botspot]

I can't hear anything, should I install PulseAudio... right? The thing is that installation Bluetooth headphones is a madness

That probably wouldn't help. The Zoom app already installs pulseaudio already.

[fabianmendes]

Mhm, right. So what can I do or I suppose to do about the audio issue? Any help? ~V. Fabian T· Mendes C. El mié, 27 ene 2021 a las 12:44, Botspot (<notifications@github.com>) escribió:

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[Botspot]

So what can I do or I suppose to do about the audio issue? Any help?

No help. A lot pf people report the same thing, but nobody knows why. Audio problems started at about the same time Raspberry Pi OS switched to using pulseaudio.

[slaattnes]

I tried to install Zoom on a rpi4 running latest raspios and got this error message:

Setting up box86 (1:0.2.1+13cce1a4-1) ...
restarting systemd-binfmt...
Job for systemd-binfmt.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status systemd-binfmt.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
dpkg: error processing package box86 (--configure):
installed box86 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
box86
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Failed to install the box86 package

Failed to install Box86 with install-32 script!
Box86 installation failed!

[Botspot]

@slaattnes Thank you for the bug report. To properly document your issue, I've created a new github issue for this.

Link: #471

[spinalbassoon10]

Hello , i have a joyaccsess webcam and in zoom the microphone dont work. itested it in some other apps and there the microphone works what can i do?

[Itai-Nelken]

@spinalbassoon10 that's a known issue, I think ptitseb (the developer of box86) said he thinks that pulseaudio isn't wrapped correctly. maybe linux x64 zoom will run better with box64 when its released.

[cycool29]

I have an issue. Whenever i try to open zoom on the raspberry pi 4 i get the following message. Box86 with Dynarec v0.2.3 1955c225 built on Oct 10 2021 00:04:24 zoom started. Client: Breakpad is using Single Client Mode! client fd = -1 free(): invalid pointer /home/pi/zoom/runzoom.sh: line 13: 14424 Aborted box86 zoom "$1" Zoom exited. Close this terminal to exit Zoom doesn't launch after this. Anyone knows what mught be causing this? I'm installing it from Pi Apps

Happened to me too. I am trying to fix that.

[loudmusicpigeon]

has anyone gotten a mic to work on zoom?
which mics would you say will work best
i currently have a bluetooth mic and it doesn't work very well only in zoom

[Itai-Nelken]

Audio input doesn't work with Box86+zoom currently, it does work with box64 amd zoom.

[loudmusicpigeon]

Audio input doesn't work with Box86+zoom currently, it does work with box64 amd zoom.

oh alright thanks
how do you downgrade to box64 then?

[Itai-Nelken]

Audio input doesn't work with Box86+zoom currently, it does work with box64 amd zoom.

oh alright thanks
how do you downgrade to box64 then?

You can't downgrade, box64 is an x64 emulator for linux arm64.
To use it, install a 64bit OS and install zoom from pi-apps.

[shigerusz]

Hi,

I installed zoom x86-64 using pi-app.
The installation seems successful.
But it failed when running zoom:

Launching Zoom.
Dynarec for ARM64, with extension: ASIMD CRC32 PageSize:4096 Cores:4
Box64 with Dynarec v0.2.0 66686141 built on Nov 18 2022 06:47:14
Using default BOX64_LD_LIBRARY_PATH: ./:lib/:lib64/:x86_64/:bin64/:libs64/
Using default BOX64_PATH: ./:bin/
Counted 52 Env var
Looking for zoom
Zoom detected, trying to use system libturbojpeg if possible
Rename process to "zoom"
Using emulated libcef.so
Error loading needed lib libffmpeg.so
Error loading one of needed lib
Error: loading needed libs in elf /home/pi/zoom/zoom
Zoom exited. Close this terminal to exit

Please help me and give a hint.

Thanks and Regards,