Opera does not detect the web cam with Google Meet

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Good evening everyone,

I have recently installed Opera on my LinuxMint 20 PC.
When I try to use the webcam with Google Meet it tells me that the web cam is not connected. I must say instead that using Firefox there is no problem, while the same problem happens to me with Google Chrome.

If anyone could help me understand how, and if they can, solve this problem it would do me a great favor.

Thanks,

Marco

[lukas425]

lukas425 last edited by

Hey,

I am not sure if this helps but can you go to Google Meets and then go to the camera settings? Maybe it is blocked somehow. I had the same issue on Zoom but on every single browser I used and apparently I once clicked a button that did not allow the camera usage.

Because if you have the same issue in Chrome maybe that could be a reason. Also try the camera if you are not in a meeting and look for the camera settings in your computer. Maybe there is something blocked for certain browsers.

[A Former User]

A Former User @lukas425 last edited by

@lukas425 thanks for your suggestion.

Camera and computer's setting are the same on Firefox, where everything works perfectly.

I have tried to change the Google Meet's webcam settings on Opera and Chrome, but nothing has changed.
It's seems strange to me because I use an external camera and the mic of that works correctly. It's just the video not detect from Meet.

I don't know...

[lukas425]

lukas425 @Guest last edited by

@markobu Have you tried another program like teams or zoom with Opera? Would be interesting to see if it works on there.

Not sure what else you can try. But what exactly does it say? Just no connection to the camera?

[A Former User]

A Former User @lukas425 last edited by

@lukas425 I already tried with Zoom and it works correctly. I tried with Meet and it says "no cameras found". If i go to the settings it says to me to connect a camera, but it is connected and working with other apps or also with Meet on Firefox.

I have also tried to change my account but nothing. It's still not working.

I agree with you that's very strange.

[gioguidone]

gioguidone last edited by

problems with google meet, it tells me that it does not detect the camera, with mozzilla firefox it works, I state that I use xubuntu 20.01

[arturdpo]

arturdpo @gioguidone last edited by

I Have the same problem here. Opera version: 74.0.3911.75 and Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS.

[KetoKelo]

KetoKelo @Guest last edited by

@markobu Try adding Google Meet to the whitelist (exceptions) of the Opera ad blocker.

[arturdpo]

arturdpo @KetoKelo last edited by

@ketokelo , didn't work. Same problem here. I put in whitelist in trackers and ads.

[KetoKelo]

KetoKelo @arturdpo last edited by

@arturdpo Maybe you need to also do this: https://forums.opera.com/topic/34659/opera-linux-browser-h-264-support-through-x264-open-source-codec?_=1614200894401

First you need to download the file from here: https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases

Hope this works!

[sophiagracia]

sophiagracia last edited by

Because if you have the same issue in Chrome maybe that could be a reason. Also try the camera if you are not in a meeting and look for the camera settings in your computer. Maybe there is something blocked for certain browsers.

Hope you got your answer.
Thanx

[arturdpo]

arturdpo @sophiagracia last edited by

Hi @sophiagracia,

It works in Firefox and Chrome. I don't know what happened in Opera.

[KetoKelo]

KetoKelo @arturdpo last edited by

@arturdpo Maybe you have to do what I posted above. It could be some codec issue. If you have any autoplay stopper, you should add Google Meet (or whatever site you are using) to the whitelist, not only to the Opera's whitelist.

[sophiagracia]

sophiagracia @arturdpo last edited by

@arturdpo Ok, thanx, no worries

[arturdpo]

arturdpo @KetoKelo last edited by

@ketokelo ,

I am trying to do that. I've used snap to install Opera.

The path is different.
/snap/opera/current/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
Am I right?

I am getting readonly message to this path.

[KetoKelo]

KetoKelo @arturdpo last edited by

@arturdpo I think Snap's version has some issues. Try installing Opera from the official repository.

[arturdpo]

arturdpo @KetoKelo last edited by

@ketokelo

Perfect!! It works!

Thank you!

[happyp3nkake]

happyp3nkake @Guest last edited by

@markobu try opera://restart