Webcam support

[dan-developer]

Is there a way to enable webcam support? For example, to run the page: https://pt.webcamtests.com/

[guysoft]

Do you want enable the camera in a distro you are building? Or as a user flashing one of the existing images?

[dan-developer]

I think I was not very clear, if I have the camera activated and enter a page that requests access to the camera, will the full page give them permission or not? This is a problem that I always see with systems that are a browser, generally it does not support WebRTC.

[guysoft]

Ia this a permissions problem or a problem chromium that is shipped doesn't support something?

[dan-developer]

Chrome does not warn you about the page requesting access to the web cam. Do the test yourself, go to https://en.webcamtests.com/ and the webcam will not be recognized, but not because it does not exist, but because chrome is not allowing or asking if it is to allow access to the device .

[guysoft]

Ok, sounds like a chromium issue, does it happen on your computer and not only on the Pi?
you can open an issue on the chromium issue tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list

[dan-developer]

On the computer it works normally. In the raspberry the use of the webcam is not requested, and therefore if it is not requested it is not released.

[guysoft]

@dan-developer If you press on the Pi ctrl+T and open a window that is not in kiosk mode, and then use that window, does it work then?

[guysoft]

Any news on the workaround I suggested above?