PhotoCam: Not working in IE 11

[AlexKolesnik]

1) Environment

• PrimeFaces version: 6.2.9, Official Primefaces Showcase
• Affected browsers: Internet Explorer 11
• WebCam: Logitech HD Webcam C525

2) Expected behavior

When using Internet Explorer 11, the page https://www.primefaces.org/showcase/ui/multimedia/photoCam.xhtml should show a video of a connected webcam. In the absense of supporting browser api, the PhotoCam component should fall back to using flash.
I found a working integration of the camera using flash on https://www.onlinemictest.com/webcam-test/

3) Actual behavior

Although a flash file is loaded, no camera picture is shown.

4) Steps to reproduce

Open https://www.primefaces.org/showcase/ui/multimedia/photoCam.xhtml in IE 11. This problem probably has somethong to do also with the specific model of the webcam. So maybe you are not affected.

[melloware]

Most likely related to this issue with the underlying PhotoCam code:
jhuckaby/webcamjs#151
jhuckaby/webcamjs#67

This patch may work...
jhuckaby/webcamjs#70

[AlexKolesnik]

Most likely related to this issue with the underlying PhotoCam code:
jhuckaby/webcamjs#151
jhuckaby/webcamjs#67

This patch may work...
jhuckaby/webcamjs#70

Inside the primefaces archive I can only find META-INF\resources\primefaces\photocam\webcam.swf.

When I replace this file with your version https://github.com/jhuckaby/webcamjs/raw/b93a0d4fc1be3d07482dedab86ca0e924ac925ef/webcam.swf , then I can indeed see a camera picture. The picture is a bit scaled up though and when I take a snapshot the size is different again.

To conclude.. your patch almost works.

But thank you very much, we are on the right track.

[melloware]

OK so yeah it looks like that solution was to fix the IE11 stuff. it might not be perfect but at least it now works in IE11.