Chrome does not throw getUserMedia error when any other application is using camera on Windows
Reported by
ke...@quavermusic.com,
Oct 30
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Issue description
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce the problem:
Using the following console code:
function sampleCode() {
var mediaRecorder;
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({
audio: true,
video: true
})
.then(function(stream) {
window.stream = stream;
})
.then(function() {
mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(window.stream, {
"mimeType": "video/webm;codecs=vp8"
});
})
.catch(function(err) {
throw new Error(err.toString());
});
}
1) Open Firefox, run the sampleCode method, accept the prompts
2) Open Chrome, run the sampleCode method, prompts show
3) Accept the prompts, no errors thrown even though the camera is in use by another application
What is the expected behavior?
Should get some error so the end user can be notified that the webcam is possibly in use by another application
What went wrong?
No errors were thrown, and if the steps are taken to preview the webcam feed, it results in a black screen
Did this work before? N/A
Does this work in other browsers? Yes
Chrome version: 70.0.3538.77 Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version:
I think this is a regression, but it's difficult to test old versions of chrome (while accessing the webcam) with my setup.
,
Oct 30
Actually, to see the behavior above, I think the only code needed to put in console is this (not wrapped in a function):
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({
audio: true,
video: true
})
.then(function(stream) {
window.stream = stream;
})
.then(function() {
mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(window.stream, {
"mimeType": "video/webm;codecs=vp8"
});
})
.catch(function(err) {
throw new Error(err.toString());
});
,
Oct 30
I could reproduce on Windows on M69 and M70. However, with Canary M72 I get NotReadableError, so this might have been fixed already. On Linux I got NotReadableError on M70 and M72. kevin@: Can you try with a recent Chrome Canary?
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Oct 30
Ah, yes, I got the correct NotReadableError on canary 72.0.3596.0. When do you suppose that will make its way back into Chrome stable?
,
Oct 30
This will make it to stable once 72 makes it to stable. According to https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/schedule, that's January 29.
,
Oct 30
Closing as per #4.
,
Oct 30
I just checked Chrome 71, currently in Beta and it works correctly, so it will be available sooner.
,
Nov 28
As far as I can tell, this issue is happening again...tested on current 70.0.3538.110 and canary 72.0.3624.0
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Nov 28
reopening as per #8. Will take a look later. |
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Comment 1 by guidou@chromium.org
, Oct 30Owner: guidou@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)