Chrome getUserMedia() not throwing NotReadableError as expected

[kevin]

I need to be able to tell whether or not the webcam can record anything.

If I open my app in chrome, and then again in firefox once I have granted chrome permisisons to the webcam, I correctly get a NotReadableError when calling getUserMedia.

Conversely, if I do the same in firefox, and then open it in chrome, I get no errors and a black box on the screen where the live webcam video should be.

I am almost positive this is a regression in chrome's behavior, but at any rate, I do need to be able to perform this check semi-reliably, and am out of ideas!

Please inform!

Thanks,

Kevin

[Ramya Raj]

Any updates on this??? I'm too facing the same issue.

[Dan Briggs]

Are you on windows? Might be running into this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=922919.