Bug 479178

Summary: xwaylandvideobridge doesn't work, shares white/black screen
Product: [Applications] XWaylandVideoBridge Reporter: Tomasz <tomy.brak>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: aleixpol, dashonwwIII, kde, kusal.jakub, tomy.brak, traceydick
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Tomasz 2023-12-30 02:24:24 UTC 
SUMMARY
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The screen shared is just white or black
Discord -> flatpak 
Xwayland bridge -> pacman and flatpak (kdeapps)
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install discord
2. Install xwaylandvideobridge
3. Try to share screen through discord
4. Select A screen in the system popup
5. Select video bridge in discord
6. Nothing is shared

OBSERVED RESULT
White/Black screen is shared, if using the flatpak version, for me the pacman version just crashed.

EXPECTED RESULT
Screen is being shared

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.113.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Kernel Version: 6.6.8-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7C88
System Version: 1.0
Comment 1 Dick Tracey 2024-01-16 18:19:05 UTC 
Same issue here on Arch Linux, NVIDIA 3070, using nvidia 545.29.06 drivers, qt5-base 5.15.12+kde+r147
Comment 2 Jakub Kusal 2024-01-21 15:40:55 UTC 
The same issue here on Arch Linux with KDE Plasma, GTX1660Ti Mobile, nvidia 545.29.06 drivers.
Comment 3 Dashon 2024-03-10 18:35:30 UTC 
I believe this issue is also related to this other issue https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476846. It's just not outright crashing yet.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-03-17 15:48:24 UTC 
This project is end-of-life and has been archived; closing all open bug reports. Thanks for using it, folks!