2 Months since VP8/VP9 is broken on macs

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Mac-Intel are still very common and clients still use it a lot. Livekit wont work and will display a green screen (even in the sample application) when using Mac with intel chipset and safari with VP9

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Do you think this is on the publisher side, or the client side? You raised the issue on the flutter repo, but I don’t know if this is more on the client.

Presumably you can’t fallback to h264 on clients that don’t support VP9? I’m not denying there is a bug, just want to understand if there is a viable workaround. Flutter supports a backupVideoCodec, backupVideoCodec property - VideoPublishOptions class - livekit_client library - Dart API

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Thanks for the answer.

I think its client side: People that are in the mac-intel themselves cannot receive streams and see other people. They can publish and everybody else will see them normally. And everybody else will publish/receive normally.

I cannot fallback because:

  1. The fallback system itself wont notice the issue and won’t switch to fallback because it does not know its broken (browser tells us VP8/VP9 is supported)

  2. there is no consistent way to know a user is specifically in a mac-intel via the browser javascript API so I could change it myself preempetively

  3. I cannot use h264 for everybody because h264 has other, worse issues

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That all makes sense.

I think its client side

Before I ping the team, did you want to raise the issue in the client SDK? GitHub - livekit/client-sdk-js: LiveKit browser client SDK (javascript) · GitHub

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I already raised it, but I raised in flutter (but it should be JS under the hood, yes). But do you want me to duplicate it?

edit: I duplicated it

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Fair enough, I have raised with the team to try and get some eyes on this. I’m not sure what the right approach would be myself