[Thoughts] Opinions after ten minutes of use

Product requests and ideas
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These are my experiences and opinions and may not be the same as other’s. I installed Jami on GNU/Linux using Flatpak and I also installed it on my Android 12 phone. I will hopefully come back and add more of my thoughts and experiences.

Android experience:

  1. Different audio settings can be found under several categories. Confusing.
  2. I get “Audio recorder app was not found” when I try to record an audio clip. Video clip recording does work.
  3. When I call someone it hangs up but the ring tone keeps on ringing. I need to forcefuly shut down the application.

Flatpak / Linux experience:

  1. Also has audio settings under different categories.
  2. Audio clip recording does work! Also video clip recording.
  3. The recorded video clip had out of sync audio. This laptop is using Pipewire and the built in microphone.
  4. When I record audio clips it shows up as playable in the chat window but when my friend records on his phone they show up as m4a attachments. Being a Flatpak I am having problems opening these files with another application on my computer.

When linking my phone and computer I had to show a QR code to my laptops webcam. I feel it should be the other way.

Things that I really like:

  1. Option to modify the quality of the audio. Something even better that would, to me, make Jami stand out from the rest is if codec bitrates can be changed and if echo cancellation and noise suppression is available to be turned on and/or off on both GNU/Linux and Android.
  2. The sound quality is superior to WhatsApp and Telegram.

It is Christmas Eve and I need to get ready for the celebrations so I will come back to this topic later. Have a nice holiday everyone!

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Flatpaks may require permissions. If so, the following link to the Flatseal application may help.

Which Linux distro are you running?

Thank you

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Hi ovari,
I am using OpenMandriva (Cooker version) amd64.

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The following link may help.

The following is an AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.

To open M4A files on OpenMandriva, ensure that the necessary codecs are installed, as M4A files use the AAC audio format, which may not be supported by default. The issue might be related to missing multimedia codecs, similar to problems encountered in other Linux distributions like Ubuntu or Manjaro. Installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras package on Ubuntu resolves such issues, but on OpenMandriva, you should check if equivalent packages are available, such as ffmpeg , gstreamer-plugins-ugly , or libavcodec-extra , which provide support for M4A playback.

If the file still does not play, verify the file integrity by attempting to open it in a terminal using VLC with the command vlc filename.m4a . If the error moov atom not found appears, the file may be corrupted or improperly encoded.

In such cases, conversion tools like ffmpeg can be used to re-encode the file. For example:

ffmpeg -i "input.m4a" -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 192k "output.mp3"

This command converts the M4A file to MP3, which is widely supported.

Alternatively, use a media player like VLC, which supports M4A natively when codecs are properly installed.

Additionally, ensure that the default audio player is correctly configured. If the file is not opening with the expected application, right-click the file, select “Properties,” go to the “Open With” tab, and set a preferred player such as VLC or Rhythmbox as the default.

This setting should persist across sessions, though some users on OpenMandriva have reported that default settings reset after restarting Dolphin, the file manager. To avoid this, ensure the correct profile is set in the terminal application (e.g., Konsole) and marked as default for new sessions.

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I understand that the development is not to my liking. I thank @ovari though for taking his time to reply and I will not use Jami after this.

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BIG MISTAKE…BIG…HUGE!