Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support (www.phoronix.com)
from joojmachine@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 28 May 2024 21:02
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 28 May 2024 21:05 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Google Chrome/Chromium 127 web browser release should finally provide support for PipeWire camera capturing support!

Since last year there has been (experimental) PipeWire camera support within Mozilla Firefox while for Chrome (Chromium) 127 there should be similar support there as well.

The Chromium integration adds back-end support for PipeWire cameras and allows for it to work within sandboxed environments.

The PipeWire support has been a feature request going back to 2021 on the basis that using PipeWire allows for multiple applications to use the camera simultaneously, support for sandboxed environments like Flatpak via Portals, and sharing a lot of code with the desktop capture mode.

More details on this PipeWire camera support heading to Google’s web browser via this Chromium ticket.

Chrome 127 stable should be out in mid-July with this support barring any last minute issues from being discovered.

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boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net on 28 May 2024 23:33 next collapse

Does Firefox though? The Flatpak needs device access for whatever reason

ozymandias117@lemmy.world on 28 May 2024 23:48 collapse

Looks like it’s behind an about:config setting, media.webrtc.camera.allow-pipewire

github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/…/1215#iss…

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net on 29 May 2024 09:52 collapse

Cool, will try that!

9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world on 29 May 2024 01:21 next collapse

I cant seem to find the code for chrome that allows this. Can someone link it?

LinusWorks4Mo@kbin.social on 29 May 2024 10:09 next collapse

who uses Chrome on Linux

joojmachine@lemmy.ml on 29 May 2024 10:55 collapse

more people than you would imagine, unfortunately

the main takeaway from this is that when this becomes the default, eventually electron apps will also have this by default

MonkderDritte@feddit.de on 29 May 2024 10:31 next collapse

Should?

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 29 May 2024 14:26 collapse

They’re thinking about it.

[deleted] on 29 May 2024 10:37 next collapse

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mactan@lemmy.ml on 29 May 2024 13:37 collapse

looking forward to more things using pipewire camera, I don’t want to have to think about v4l again