Video conferences in Qubes

Audio other’s video

This is pretty fine, from my experience.

Webcam

:white_check_mark: Works normally.

But some webcams may have issues under Qubes and in other cases it fails after a bit. In this second case you should try the solution from Unable to connect my Webcam to any AppVM; connects and then fails - #7 by deeplow

Screen Sharing (same AppVM)

Software Works? Explanation
web videoconf :white_check_mark: On web-based videoconferencing it works great for sharing an application or whole full screen.
zoom client :x: If you share the screen, the green rectangle that shows what’s the area being shared is what breaks it all. Basically whatever is inside that rectangle you can’t interact with or even see.

For non-web zoom the only solution I know about is to have two screens and do a presentation where you see the presentation notes on one when you have the presentation in full screen. And you share this second one. But keep in mind you will only see the slides changing in the presenter view.

Screen Sharing (full screen)

If you want to share the full Qubes desktop it is not trivial. The best solution I’ve seen is to use an HDMI capture card and send the HDMI output of the Qubes laptop onto another computer and share it from there. But this is quite complex.

Audio

The audio bit may have some issues. If running Qubes on a low-powered computer (2-core laptop, for example) you may hear the audio stuttering. If this is the case try pausing / killing any unneeded VMs.

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