[Galene] Re: Some poorly thought out feedback on git head

[Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>]

Hi Dave,

As you note, we have some problems with Safari.

> a safari user had their self view freeze,

Yeah, Safari will randomly pause videos at weird times in order to save
battery.  I've caught many such places, but I must have missed some.
That's the main reason why there is a play button at the bottom of the
video, which you can click if autoplay is denied by the browser.

> an iphone user was unhappy about the iphone interface, in particular
> seeing a black box where the chat window could have been.

That's a new one.  We definitely need more reports from Apple users.

> If I let it go idle, several times I was logged out.

Galene sends keepalives after 55s at most, on the assumption that the
smallest NAT timeout it will encounter is 60s.  I can easily reduce the
timeout, let me know if you have a value to suggest.

> In an earlier test,  I'd ran a wireguard vpn (also with a tailscale),
> both under lte, and it blew up - in one case, video couldn't get
> through but voice could. I have not worked to figure out what actually
> went wrong, it could be anything from packet size to a routing or nat
> problem.

That's a known issue with WebRTC, unfortunately: the connectivity probing
is completely decoupled from the data plane, and uses small packets.  If
the probes get through but the packets don't, you get a blackhole.

As a workaround, you can try typing « /set forceRelay true » and hitting
reload.

-- Juliusz