On Mon, 2024-03-11 at 10:15 +0100, Hauke Fath (SPG) wrote: > Hi, > > has anybody had any recent success in using a webcam with Firefox? > > Sites like <https://webcamtests.com/> claim to detect the webcam > (it's a > logitech whatzit, attached as uvideo0), but are missing access > permissions. > > Firefox (123.0.1 here), OTOH, never asks for permissions; it does > not > log any related errors, either. > > Cheerio, > Hauke >
Just another data point. I tried a usb webcam with Firefox 120.0.1 under NetBSD 10.0_RC4 on another desktop and that seems to work fine. Firefox failed to detect the camera has a built-in microphone, but that may be a lack of support on the usb video driver... Webcam Information Webcam Name: FLH-H62-200414 (0x0c45) Integrated Camera Quality Rating: 159 Built-in Microphone: None Built-in Speaker: None Frame rate: 10 FPS Stream Type: video Image Mode: rgb Webcam MegaPixels: 0.92 MP Webcam Resolution: 1280×720 Video Standard: HD Aspect Ratio: 1.78 PNG File Size: 1.23 MB JPEG File Size: 662.15 kB Bitrate: 6.59 MB/s Number of Colors: 68285 Average RGB Color: Lightness: 53.33% Luminosity: 53.96% Brightness: 53.46% Hue: 160° Saturation: 2.52% Dave
