How can I use Whatsapp video call on Linux?
I tried Whatsapp-for-Linux and Whatsie but they didn't work.
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Video calls are not supported under Linux afaik, since they don't enable it for the web version.
I wonder if they're supported on Windows with Chrome..? Maybe this is a case of simply replacing the UA string?
They don't support calling in any browsers. If I recall correctly they're using some kind of native library to encrypt and transcode the video, which the browser obviously can't use. You need to get the native app on Windows and macOS.
Well they probably could get it to work in the browser it's just that they didn't. I wonder why?!
Doesn't discord support video calls in the browser? Surely it cant be the e2e being the problem here? I didn't know about the WASM overhead, I always thought of it as near native but I guess that's not the case then? Websockets should work fine though right?
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You raise valid points and thank you for the detailed answer. It's a shame wasm isn't hardware accelerated, is that because of security or is it simply not implemented yet? (i can google this but I'm just wondering.) I agree that being able to call on a web browser is perhaps less necessary because of the phone having to be linked anyway, but it still would be nice to have :)
I'm a noob but how unencrypted are we talking about here? Can someone do a packet capture and reconstruct the video? Or like unencrypted at the machine level and other processes can see.
Ahh, no E2E encryption. Got it.