These are problems people reported on Fluxer Feedback that our new voice and video system fixes. They're about the desktop and web apps. The mobile apps keep using today's voice system for now, and they'll move to the new one in a later update.
"Built in" means the new system already does this, "Before it ships" means we'll finish it first, and "Planned" means we intend to add it. We'll test each fix before the new system ships and mark each post as fixed on Fluxer Feedback once it is.
Starting a screen share
What changes
When
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If a screen share fails to start, the app shows an error and you stay in the call.
Built in
#2
When the app can't capture audio for a share, you can share without audio.
Before it ships
#2
On Linux Wayland, a screen share that fails to start ends with an error after a short wait, and you can try again right away.
Built in
#4091
Changing the window or screen you share keeps the shared audio playing.
Built in
#2643
Shared audio stops for everyone when the screen share ends.
Built in
#392
You can change the audio source of a screen share while it's running, without starting the share again.
Before it ships
#549
On Linux, the "Applications" and "Entire screen" tabs open the system picker with only windows or only screens.
Before it ships
#2344
Watching a screen share
What changes
When
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The picture-in-picture window shows the stream you picked, even while you're streaming yourself.
Before it ships
#4101
Turning off the setting that shows your own screen share takes your stream tile out of the call view.
Before it ships
#4159
Ultrawide screen shares show at their own width, without gray bars around a 16:9 frame.
Before it ships
#760
Video you pop out into its own window keeps working in the desktop app.
Before it ships
#1099
Video quality
What changes
When
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The desktop app encodes video on your graphics card with NVENC, AMF or QSV on Windows, VideoToolbox on macOS and VAAPI on Linux with AMD or Intel graphics.
Built in
#790 , #2914 , #2920
On Linux with NVIDIA graphics, the desktop app encodes video with NVENC.
Before it ships
#2914 , #2920 , #2894
Hardware encoding works with H.264, H.265 and AV1, and VP8 and VP9 always use the software encoder.
Built in
#790
Without a hardware encoder, the software encoder uses several CPU threads.
Built in
#2894
Each person's video uses a codec that everyone watching can decode, and the app picks it again when people join or leave.
Built in
#774 , #851 , #649
When no codec works for everyone watching, the app falls back to H.264, which every desktop app can decode.
Before it ships
#649 , #774
If your graphics card can't decode a screen share, the app decodes it on your CPU.
Before it ships
#719
On Windows, screen shares from HDR displays are turned into standard range video before they're sent.
Built in
#940
On Windows, tone mapping makes HDR screen shares look closer to what you see on your own screen.
Before it ships
#940 , #3337
Sharing games on Windows
What changes
When
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When a game is already in exclusive fullscreen as you start sharing its screen, the desktop app uses game capture for it.
Built in
#4164
When a game goes into exclusive fullscreen after you started sharing, the share switches to game capture.
Before it ships
#2886 , #4164
Games with anti-cheat are always shared with regular window or screen capture, never with game capture.
Built in
#4164
A window share only shows your cursor while it's over that window.
Before it ships
#3449
Linux
What changes
When
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You can share your screen in X11 sessions.
Before it ships
#755
You can see other people's video in the desktop app on Wayland.
Before it ships
#231
Sharing your whole system's audio includes media you play in Fluxer chats and leaves out only the call.
Before it ships
#4533
The "Fluxer Direct Capture Audio" device stops becoming your default output.
Before it ships
#3791
You can pick PipeWire devices such as Easy Effects as your microphone or speakers.
Before it ships
#84
Automatic gain control adjusts your voice inside Fluxer and doesn't change your system microphone volume.
Built in
#344
Screen share audio
What changes
When
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In the desktop app, your whole system's audio in a screen share leaves out the sound of the call itself.
Built in
#2849
The web app asks your browser to leave call audio out of screen shares too.
Before it ships
#2849
On Windows, the desktop app captures screen share audio with the per-app audio capture built into Windows.
Built in
#788
The app tells you when it can't capture audio for a screen share.
Before it ships
#788
You can share an app's audio without sharing any video.
Planned
#4177
The app remembers stream volume and mute for each person who streams, across new streams and restarts.
Before it ships
#3939
Moving the volume slider of a muted stream unmutes it.
Before it ships
#4309
Stream volume goes up to 800%, the same as a person's volume.
Before it ships
#4256
Your microphone
What changes
When
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On Windows and Linux, echo cancellation in the desktop app also uses what your computer plays, so less of a video on your speakers gets into your microphone.
Before it ships
#208
On macOS, the desktop app uses Apple's own voice processing for echo cancellation.
Built in
#208
On Windows, a setting in the desktop app keeps microphone effects such as Equalizer APO in the sound you send.
Before it ships
#3055 , #1045
In the desktop app, the microphone test plays your voice through the same audio code as calls, with the devices and processing you picked.
Built in
#47 , #300
Your speaking ring and the audio others hear follow the same voice activity check, and the ring lights up without waiting for the voice server.
Built in
#3855 , #4526 , #1069
With push-to-talk, your speaking ring lights up as soon as you hold the key.
Built in
#4289
Push-to-mute mutes you in "Direct input" mode and shows you as muted in the voice channel.
Before it ships
#3338
The voice activity threshold goes down to -100 dBFS.
Built in
#1413
When your microphone is set to the system default on Windows, the desktop app switches to the new device when the Windows default changes.
Built in
#4236
On Windows, you can use the Windows default communication device for calls.
Before it ships
#4266
Voice messages use the microphone and processing settings you picked.
Before it ships
#3891
Voice messages are saved as Opus, a compressed audio format.
Built in
#1268
Volume
What changes
When
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You can turn on leveling for incoming voices, which brings quiet and loud speakers closer together.
Planned
#4170
Volume sliders follow how loud things sound to you, and your current volume settings keep their loudness.
Planned
#1127
You can turn up a person's volume to 800%.
Built in
#4256
You can move a person's voice to the left or right.
Built in
#4288
A person's volume setting applies as soon as they join, including 0%, and setting it above 100% doesn't crash anyone's app.
Built in
#490 , #354
The stereo microphone option in "Direct input" mode stays.
Built in
#1412
Keybinds and push-to-talk
What changes
When
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Push-to-talk and push-to-mute work with keys such as the superscript two key and the angle bracket key on keyboard layouts outside the US.
Before it ships
#2867
A shortcut on F13 or Scroll Lock doesn't also go off from the Windows key or the F key.
Before it ships
#3248 , #3488
You can still mute yourself while push-to-talk is on.
Before it ships
#704
The mute button shows whether you muted yourself or the app is waiting for push-to-talk.
Before it ships
#2876
Calls and voice channels
What changes
When
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Opening Fluxer on another device or tab doesn't disconnect you from a group call.
Built in
#2950
If your roles don't have "Use voice activity", the app has you use push-to-talk.
Built in
#3987
When a voice channel empties, it stops being tied to the region of the first person who joined.
Built in
#4143
When someone joins your voice channel, the join sound plays once.
Built in
#2982
Push-to-talk has its own sounds.
Built in
#3835
A person who gets a timeout in a community is disconnected from its voice channels.
Before it ships
#524
People who don't do anything for the community's AFK timeout are moved to the AFK channel, and talking counts as activity.
Before it ships
#2742 , #2789
Community entrance sounds play when you join.
Before it ships
#2318
When your camera disconnects, the app turns it off and tells you.
Before it ships
#142
A person's camera pops out into a floating window when you leave the call view, the same way screen shares do.
Before it ships
#4293
When you switch accounts during a call, the call keeps running, and a bar lets you go back to it or leave it.
Before it ships
#2826 , #3629
Bots see who is already in a voice channel as soon as they connect.
Before it ships
#302
Encryption
What changes
When
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Every call is end-to-end encrypted with DAVE , and the app never sends or plays audio or video that isn't encrypted.
Built in
#970 , #1200 , #1020
Encrypted calls are built for the desktop and web apps, and the mobile apps need them before they can join calls on the new system.
Built in
#970
Self-hosting
What changes
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Self-hosted instances don't need a voice region set up for calls to work.
Built in
#679 , #601
On an instance without a voice server, calls run peer-to-peer in the desktop app, and the web app can't join them.
Built in
#679
The screen share bitrate limit that people who self-host can set today also applies on the new system.
Before it ships
#3479
People who self-host can set the voice bitrate for direct message and group calls.
Before it ships
#4340
People who self-host can disconnect people who stay muted or deafened in voice for too long.
Planned
#4149
What if my problem isn't listed? Search Fluxer Feedback to see if someone has already reported it, and vote on the post or add what you see. If nobody has, please report it with your platform, build and the steps that cause it, and we'll check whether the new system fixes it.