1864991 - External webcam not offered on Meet call (internal laptop present)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1863041

(Core :: WebRTC: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

Using today's Nightly, I just joined a Meet call and only my laptop's internal camera was offered and not my external USB-connected camera. I then started Chrome and my external camera was present as an option.

(I'm 99% certain the camera was plugged in before and after I'd restarted Nightly)

macOS 14.1
2020 M1 MacBook Air
Logitech C390e webcam

Comment 1

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

Of course when I try now the camera is found and works just fine 🙄

Comment 3

[Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [:jib] (needinfo? me)]

(I see this has been duped to an existing issue, so hopefully that solves it. Though comment 1 suggests it was intermittent, so I'll post my question anyway)

(In reply to Andrew Overholt [:overholt] from comment #0)

Using today's Nightly, I just joined a Meet call and only my laptop's internal camera was offered and not my external USB-connected camera.

Was it missing from Firefox's permission prompt picker list, or under Meet's own in-content ⚙️ settings page? — The former would be because Meet insists on constraining getUserMedia to the last remembered device on revisit, something they're aware of as an issue. The latter would likely be bug 1863041, and should also reproduce in https://jan-ivar.github.io/dummy/enumerate.html by clicking Enumerate devices!.

Comment 4

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

(In reply to Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [:jib] (needinfo? me) from comment #3)

(I see this has been duped to an existing issue, so hopefully that solves it. Though comment 1 suggests it was intermittent, so I'll post my question anyway)

(In reply to Andrew Overholt [:overholt] from comment #0)

Using today's Nightly, I just joined a Meet call and only my laptop's internal camera was offered and not my external USB-connected camera.

Was it missing from Firefox's permission prompt picker list, or under Meet's own in-content ⚙️ settings page? — The former would be because Meet insists on constraining getUserMedia to the last remembered device on revisit, something they're aware of as an issue. The latter would likely be bug 1863041, and should also reproduce in https://jan-ivar.github.io/dummy/enumerate.html by clicking Enumerate devices!.

It was the latter. Your device enumeration page doesn't give me friendly names for devices so it's hard to tell exactly if it's listed.

Thanks!

Comment 5

[Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [:jib] (needinfo? me)]

The friendly names only show after turning on camera or microphone, for privacy and fingerprinting reasons.