Topics tagged with camera

Webcam throws error, says another application is using it

half-blue — Invalid Date

I have been having issues with my webcam when I need it for Google Meet. Google Meet would always say the camera failed because another application is using it. If I open the Google Meet on Chrome, it works. Even when I tested with https://webcamtests.com/, GX fails and Chrome works. So what could GX be missing?

Opera using my camera and microphone on Windows 11

burnout426 — Invalid Date

I would check at the URLs opera://settings/content/camera and opera://settings/content/microphone to make sure there's nothing in the allow list that you don't want to be there.

Also, disable your extensions one by one at the URL opera://extensions to see if one is the culprit.

Also, for each sidebar app you use, click the lock icon at the top middle of the panel and goto site settings and review the camera and microphone settings there too.

You can see if it happens in a test standalone installation of Opera too or not. That'll tell you if it's just your Opera's settings or something that's messed up.

Camera is "used" by another app mysteriously on Opera GX

KhiemGOM — Invalid Date

In all of the Opera tabs, I can't use the camera at all. Some websites just say it broke but Zoom specifically says some app occupied it already. But the thing is my computer camera isn't used anywhere else. Other apps work just fine. I checked all kinds of permission in both Opera and Settings. It still didn't work!

Opera doesn't detect camera (KDE neon 5.19)

[[global:former_user]] — Invalid Date

Opera doesn't detect any camera or microphone, on Firefox it works fine.
Of course I checked the settings and the camera option is not disabled. I don't know if it's a codec issue since I had no problems with videos on any site (youtube, twitch, twitter, even sites with flashplayer).
Before I had managed to make it work with the same OS but I don't remember how.