918938 - WebRTC: Camera access fails when simultaneously using camera in Chrome

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: WebRTC, defect)

Description

[tom]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130910160258

Steps to reproduce:

* Logged in to https://gittogether.com as User1 with Chrome 29.
* Logged in to https://gittogether.com as User2 in Firefox 24 on same computer.
* Initiate call from Chrome to Firefox.
* getUserMedia succeeds in Chrome
* Answer call in Firefox and select camera/mic.



Actual results:

getUserMedia fails in Firefox


Expected results:

getUserMedia should succeed.

Note that this works on OSX, but not Windows. I'm not sure if this is related to http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=151246.

You can also reproduce this with http://apprtc.appspot.com/

Comment 1

[qiang lu]

More test result on ubuntu 12.04
Firefox 26 Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0

Couldn't go to connected state even only initiate a Video Call using the "Test Call" on Firefox 26, camera&mic is not occupied by Chrome.

BTW, Whether one camera device can be accessed or shared by Chrome and Firefox at the same time?

Comment 2

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

Windows OS doesn't allow camera to be shared between programs