How to use Whatsapp Video Call on Linux? - eviltoast

How can I use Whatsapp video call on Linux?

I tried Whatsapp-for-Linux and Whatsie but they didn’t work.

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Video calls are not supported under Linux afaik, since they don’t enable it for the web version.

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
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      2 months ago

      I wonder if they’re supported on Windows with Chrome…? Maybe this is a case of simply replacing the UA string?

        • Treachery4524@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          Well they probably could get it to work in the browser it’s just that they didn’t. I wonder why?!

            • Treachery4524@lemmy.ml
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              2 months ago

              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?

                • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  2 months ago

                  Discord uses unencrypted WebRTC

                  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.

                • Treachery4524@lemmy.ml
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                  2 months ago

                  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 :)