Video call initiator is black screen (during direct video call)

[Joshndroid]

Describe the bug
Doing a direct video call one of the participants (usually the one initiating the video call is a black screen. The other person works just fine. It used to work perfectly but in the last few months it has become this way where one person is always black screen.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Make a video call. The initiator of the call is usually black screen

Expected behavior
be able to see both participants

Smartphone (please complete the following information):
Samsung S21 Ultra & Pixel 7 Pro

Additional context

• App version:1.5.8.sc62 [40100990] (f-39aff9f2)
• Store: fdroid
• Homeserver: self hosted instance, it was working for many months and now longer does. Self hosted instance is updated as per matrix-ansible version. Made some of the changed within the jitsi section for matrix with no change

Upstream relevance

• Does this issue exist in Element Android? yes
• If this issue exists in Element Android, please also link the corresponding bug report (create a new one if it doesn't exist yet) - can not make video calls element-hq/element-android#7619

Add any other context about the problem here.

[Joshndroid]

It appears we might have some upstream movement on this finally with this being closed today element-hq#7619

It appears this was the merge that closed the issue element-hq#8383

Any possibility in merging from upstream with this and pushing out a new build? It's pretty significant if it fixes the blank video call issue

[SpiritCroc]

Planning to merge upstream once they tag the next release, like usually. Could probably be due soon-ish judging their release cycle?

[Joshndroid]

Hey mate, element-android just released their new version 1.6.. Super keen to get the video fixes merged, cheers

[rajil]

Since upstream bug is fixed, can you get this fixed.

[SpiritCroc]

1.6.0 has been merged (pushed to sc_beta branch). I'm not rushing a release for this one since upstream switched the crypto SDK, so we want to at least wait for them to roll-out 100% to production to be on the safe side regarding bugs from that change.

[rajil]

I have tested upstream 1.6 and it has worked fine. Is there a beta release apk available (gplay version) which I can use until you make a stable release?

[SpiritCroc]

Not yet, but it may appear maybe later this week in the beta-fdroid-repo linked at https://schildi.chat/android/ .

[Joshndroid]

Has this been pushed as yet? Tried video calls tonight and still broken for me

[SpiritCroc]

It's included in the latest beta. I'm waiting for upstream to push 1.6 to production before doing the same in case there are some rust crypto bugs that still need fixing.