Today I joined a google hangout video meeting with Chromium. The quality was very low. With other words unusable.
It was not the wifi connection. I joined the same meeting with a mac book and there the quality was good. I switched twice during two minutes: Ubuntu Laptop (unusable), Mac (good), Ubuntu Laptop (unusable), Mac (good).
The ubuntu laptop was getting very slow. Switching between the browser and a terminal took minutes.
Version: Chromium 79.0.3945.79, running on Ubuntu 18.04 (64-Bit)
Here is the output of lshw of my laptop: https://pastebin.com/uw8aCbGQ
What could be the reason for the very low quality on my ubuntu laptop?
Sorry, this was not related to google hangout video call.
There was a custom service restarting over and over again consuming a lot of resources on the laptop.
This was not noticable until the video call started.
After disabling the service the video calls work perfectly even with Chromium. I have not tried google chrome, since the issue is resolved now.