I'm developing an application that allows voice recording in the web browser. This is working fine on most browsers but I have some issues with iOS Safari.
Below you can find an extract of the code, it is not complete but it gives an idea of what's going on.
//Triggered when the user clicks on a button that start the recording
function startRecording() {
//Create new audio context
let audioContext = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext);
//Hack polyfill media recorder to re-use the audioContex
window.NewMediaRecorder.changeAudioContext(audioContext);
navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices().then(function (devices) {
console.log('loaded audio devices');
console.log(devices);
devices = devices.filter((d) => d.kind === 'audioinput');
console.log(devices);
console.log('chosen device: ' + devices[0].deviceId);
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({
audio: {
deviceId : {
exact : devices[0].deviceId
}
}
}).then(function (stream) {
console.log(stream);
let recorder = new NewMediaRecorder(stream);
recorder.addEventListener('dataavailable', function (e) {
document.getElementById('ctrlAudio').src = URL.createObjectURL(e.data);
});
recorder.start();
console.log('stop listening after 15 seconds');
setTimeout(function () {
console.log('15 seconds passed');
console.log("Force stop listening");
recorder.stop();
recorder.stream.getTracks()[0].stop();
}, 15000);
});
});
}
For the record, I'm using audio recorder polyfill (https://ai.github.io/audio-recorder-polyfill/) in order to achieve recording, as MediaRecorder is not yet available on Safari.
The recorder works fine on all navigators (this including OS X Safari), yet on iOS Safari it only records noice. If I set the volume of my speakers at maximal level I can hear myself speak, but it is from "very far away".
All the online dictaphones/recorders that I found have the same issue, they always recording noise. (Tested with an iPhone 5S, 5SE and X, all up to date).
I'm a bit desperate because I already did a lot of research, but I didn't find any solution for this issue.
As required, the AudioContext is created on a user event (in this case a touch on a button).
I even tried to change the gain of but that didn't help.
Trying to access the audio without setting a media device isn't helping.
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({audio: true})
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I have a mobile website that takes a few pictures (environment cam) and records a short video (user cam). On desktop, everything works fine. On mobile, the camera feed is shown on both chrome and Safari. Taking pictures also works, but when I try to start recording, the page does not execute any javascript code after mediarecorder.start(1000). This means instructions are not shown and the vid never stops recording.
Code:
async function start()
{
var constraints = { video: { width: { ideal: 4096 }, height: { ideal: 2160 }, facingMode: 'user'}};
cameraStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(constraints);
video.srcObject = cameraStream; video.play();
mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(cameraStream,{ mimeType: 'video/webm' });
mediaRecorder.addEventListener('dataavailable', function(e) {
chunks.push(e.data);
});
}
function startRecording()
{
console.log("starting recording")
takePicture();
console.log("Selfie taken")
outline.style.display = 'none';
button.style.display = 'none';
text.innerText = "Volg de instructies op het scherm.";
//WORKS FINE TILL HERE
mediaRecorder.start(1000);
//BELOW THIS IS NEVER EXECUTED
console.log("setting timeout");
setTimeout(step,2000);
}
As said, it works on desktop, but not on iOS chrome or Safari.
Chrome and Safari on iOS are unfortunately more or less the same. Apple only allows their own browser engine on iOS and Chrome plays by those rules.
The MediaRecorder in Safari doesn't support 'video/webm' which is why I guess there is already an error thrown when you construct the MediaRecorder. Consequently the mediaRecorder variable is undefined when you try to call start() later on.
It probably works if you let Safari (or Chrome on iOS) pick the mimeType itself by omitting the configuration.
mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(cameraStream);
I have implemented the WebRTC in my angular project to record the video. And after the save we can send it to the attachment. This is working fine in windows OS properly, but in mac safari, the video is speed up and 30-sec video becomes 3 sec only. this occurs only in safari.
Here on start the video.
mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ video: true, audio: true })
.then(webcamStream => {
this.webcamStream = webcamStream;
})
The MediaRecorder code:
this.recorder = new MediaRecorder(this.webcamStream, {mimeType: 'video/mp4'});
this.recorder.onstart = () =>
this.zone.run(() => {
this.behaviorService.isRecording(true);
});
this.recorder.onstop = this.onRecorderStopped;
this.recorder.ondataavailable = (event) =>
this.zone.run(() => {
this.data = [...this.data, event.data];
});
this.recorder.start();
When video is stopped then it save in video/webm;codecs=h264 this mimeType.
I have also tried with video/mp4 but it also not working
Can I get any solution that works in both OS?
Safari is notoriously broken with respect to .getUserMedia() and the MediaRecorder class.
Can i get the any solution which works in both OS?
Not yet. Pester Apple. In the meantime use Chrome on MacOS: it works.
There may be some tricks to recommend to make this better. But you didn't show us your MediaRecorder code: that's where the stream is compressed.
I want to get a video from the webcam using JS but no footage.
MESSAGE:
DOMException: Could not start video source
App.js
const video = document.getElementById("video");
function startVideo() {
navigator.getUserMedia(
{
video: {}
},
stream => (video.srcObject = stream),
err => console.log(err)
);
}
startVideo();
index.html
...
<body>
<video id="video" width="720" height="540" autoplay muted></video>
</body>
...
thanks for your help
If anyone else is having this problem and nothing else helps. Make sure that your camera is not already claimed/used by a different software/browser.
TLDR: I have tested your code and had to change it a bit:
https://codepen.io/puradawid/pen/PoqxzPQ
It looks like the problem lays here:
navigator.getUserMedia({
video: {}
},
stream => { video.srcObject = stream },
err => console.log(err)
);
Regarding to docs navigator.getUserMedia is deprecated and there is navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia that supports it. However, changing that up doesn't solve the correct problem which is your callback functions. This method returns Promise that is controlled by .then(), so changing it allows me to see my face in codepen:
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({
video: true
}).then(
stream => (video.srcObject = stream),
err => console.log(err)
);
I ran into this problem on certain android devices (Sony XA2) when trying to toggle the camera on a mobile browser because I am calling navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia repeatedly on each camera toggle.
The solution that I found was to make sure to stop all the tracks in previous streams that you created.
this.stream.getTracks().forEach(t => {
t.stop();
this.stream.removeTrack(t);
});
Without the previous code you can't seem to toggle camera on certain Android devices: (Demo),
(Code)
The error shown was DOMException: Requested device not found
By stopping previous tracks: you are able to start a new stream:
(Demo)
Code
Note: The following code snippet doesn't seem to execute in stack overflow due to security restrictions, so please use the jsfiddle links.
class Camera {
constructor({ video }) {
this.facingMode = "environment";
this.video = video;
video.onloadedmetadata = () => {
video.play();
};
}
async toggleCamera() {
if (this.facingMode === "environment") {
this.facingMode = "user";
} else {
this.facingMode = "environment";
}
try {
if (this.stream){
/* On some android devices, it is necessary to stop the previous track*/
this.stream.getTracks().forEach(t => t.stop());
}
this.stream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({
video: {
facingMode: this.facingMode,
}
});
} catch (e) {
console.error(e);
}
this.video.srcObject = this.stream;
}
}
const camera = new Camera({
video: document.querySelector("video"),
});
const button = document.querySelector("button");
button.addEventListener('click', () => {
camera.toggleCamera();
});
<button>
Toggle Camera
</button>
<video></video>
In Windows 10 go to settings->privacy->App permission(left side)->Microphone-> enable 'Allow apps to access your microphone'
After that retry with your JS program....It will work!!
If anyone have such an error and you are working on a laptop. You can try bending your laptop monitor in both directions. Sometimes the cable comes loose. This helped in my case.
Also look into Feature-Policy HTTP header, both on the website and on the host web server config, and make sure camera access is allowed.
I have tried all the other solution but nothing is work. Then finally i need to uninstall my camera driver in Device Manager and then scan for hardware changes. Try to run the app again and it's working.
I'm building electron desktop app in windows 10.
electron: 15.3.0
Source video that helped me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2ULFlzkxw
I went to the browser settings for camera and noticed that the default camera was showing as "Leap Motion" which is not a standard camera device. I changed to an actual webcam and the problem was solved.
Sometimes this type of error also appears when you try to make a peer-to-peer call system and your tests are done on the same device. The camera is already used by the initiator and the receiver can no longer activate the camera.
I am developing a web application for video recording.
I have tried the below code but the problem is it working fine with a external camera, but in the laptops inbuilt camera with the same Browser it is giving no Object found error.
I am using Firefox 60.6.1
if (navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia) {
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(constraints)
.then(function(stream) {
//load the stream in the video variable
video.srcObject = stream;
//load the stream in revokeAccess variable
revokeAccess=stream;
//video playback
video.play();
/*
Optional to avoid the dual audio disturbance. Playback audio is muted
*/
video.muted= true;
if (MediaRecorder.isTypeSupported('video/webm;codecs=vp9')) {
var options = {mimeType: 'video/webm;codecs=vp9'};
console.log("using vp9");
} else if (MediaRecorder.isTypeSupported('video/webm;codecs=h264')) {
var options = {mimeType: 'video/webm;codecs=h264'};
console.log("using h264");
} else if (MediaRecorder.isTypeSupported('video/webm;codecs=vp8')) {
var options = {mimeType: 'video/webm;codecs=vp8',videoBitsPerSecond : 1500000,audioBitsPerSecond : 160000};
console.log("using vp8");
}else{
console.log('isTypeSupported is not supported, using default codecs for browser');
}
//load the stream and type of video in the function
mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(stream,options);
//handle the data availability
mediaRecorder.ondataavailable = handleDataAvailable;
//Start the recording
mediaRecorder.start();
alert("Started Recording");
//push the data into chunks(array)
function handleDataAvailable(event) {
if (event.data.size > 0) {
recordedChunks.push(event.data);
console.log(recordedChunks);
} else {
alert(event);
}
}
//disable the Start Recording button
document.getElementById("startRecording").disabled = true;
})
.catch(function(error) {
//handle the device not found exception
alert("Camera not Found !! Please connect camera properly");
console.log(error);
});
}
I want the application to be working in each platform.
Hi All Developers Thanks for your support and quick response.
I fixed the issues using the below adapter addition in the code.
var getUserMedia = navigator.getUserMedia ||
navigator.mozGetUserMedia ||
navigator.webkitGetUserMedia;
If you want to support legacy browser, check following.
https://github.com/webrtcHacks/adapter
WebRTC adapter
adapter.js is a shim to insulate apps from spec changes and prefix
differences. In fact, the standards and protocols used for WebRTC
implementations are highly stable, and there are only a few prefixed
names. For full interop information, see webrtc.org/web-apis/interop.
This repository used to be part of the WebRTC organisation on github
but moved. We aim to keep the old repository updated with new
releases.
Also, you can check your hardware environment form firefox.
In the address bar on browser type following
about:support
On Samsung Galaxy S2 Android 6.0.1 + Chrome v55, when I getUserMedia on page load, the video track acquired appears live.
When I select the back camera from my camera select, I trigger another time my gUM with constraints to use that exact facing back cameraId, the video track is ended, I have a black rectangle instead of a stream.
var constraints = {
video: {
deviceId: {
exact: defaultVideoDeviceId
}
},
audio: true
};
gUM wrapper
function gUM(constraints, callback) {
console.debug("WebRTC constraints", constraints);
// Stopping streaming before starting the new one
if (window.streams.local) {
window.streams.local.getTracks().forEach(function(track) {
track.stop();
});
}
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(constraints)
.then(stream => {
console.debug("New MediaStream > Tracks", stream.getTracks());
window.streams.local = stream;
callback && callback(stream);
})
.catch(err => {
console.log("Raised error when capturing:", err);
});
}
If I switch back to front, it acquires a new MediaStream and it plays the video.
I'm facing a similar problem too.
My test is a bit different since I'm trying to make a GUM of the back camera while I have a GUM a media stream active that is using the front camera.
I tested in several android devices and only the Xiaomi MI Mix 2 with the MIUI beta 875 with android 8.1 works. This can be because that rom uses the new camera2 android api, or because the Mi Mix 2 camera hardware allows the usage of both the back and the front camera at the same time.
The annoying thing is that sometimes, on certain devices, the GUM doesn't fail, but hangs indefinitely.
Maybe listening to the MediaStreamTrack.onended event after the track.stop() method call, can help to understand when resources are completely free so as you can try a new GUM with different constraints.
Please let me know if you discovered something.
Simone