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Chrome has suddenly stopped accessing my camera. Whenever I go to a website that tries to use my camera, I see a text that says camera : none available
When I go to media settings, I see that Chrome is not able to detect my camera, though the camera is working fine with Gmail chat camera test, and it works fine in Firefox too.
I am on Ubuntu 12.04 and my camera works fine. I tried it using a application called cheese
1Java was disabled in Chrome recently. That might have affected it. Q was asked in 2014... in which case idn – Pathfinder – 2015-08-21T12:24:10.433
2I hope you have tried something as obvious as reinstalling chrome. And what is cheese? Are you sure its not a problem with whatever it is? What do you mean by it works in GMail chat? Is that in chrome? – tumchaaditya – 2014-01-03T23:43:16.087
2If it works in cheese and in gmail chat, it sounds like you are simply not permitting the websites ton access your camera. Should be a security setting somewhere. – terdon – 2014-01-04T00:43:35.533
2@terdon - Under Chrome, If you will go to you settings tab -> Advance settings -> under Privacy settings click context settings -> media.
You can clearly see that chrome will identify your webcam But its not identifying mine. – Hardik Juneja – 2014-01-04T01:27:21.690
2@tumchaaditya- cheese is a GNOME app that helps you take photos and videos using your webcam under linux.
In Gmail if you go to chat setting -> click verify your setting. You will see Gmail will try to test your cam and audio. This test successfully pass on my system – Hardik Juneja – 2014-01-04T01:31:54.883
2And yet Gmail chat camera test detects it OK? In chrome I assume, right? If so, I would suspect either that the gmail client itself is using some system that blocks the rest of chrome from your camera. Just disable or uninstall the client and restart chrome to check or ii) that the gmail chat's test is either lying or running somehow independently of chrome. Does it actually let you video chat? – terdon – 2014-01-04T01:33:05.690