Video calls app allow selecting camera and microphone

[Tomasu]

This is just a feature request, I'd like to be able to select which camera and microphone is used for calls. Currently it seems to default to the first one found. A brief look suggests that webrtc allows selecting both input and output devices.

[MariusBluem]

You are able to change this client-side in your browser settings ;)

[Tomasu]

I was unable to find an option for that in chrome on Linux.

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You are able to change this client-side in your browser settings ;)

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[Tomasu]

I finally found the option. It seems to be burried in the privacy settings? But it would be very nice if it was a simple selector in the app itself.

[small1]

This should be an app setting. I started looking at it right now and found the setting for it. But for a normal deadly user, fiddling with browser settings is just not an option :)

[nickvergessen]

Well sorry, but we can't do anything there. The browser provides us what you gave access to. Nothing we can do.

[Tomasu]

Which api are you using? Webrtc totally allows the user/app to select sources:

https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/devices/input-output/

[fancycode]

Yeah, there is an API to select the camera/mic from the app, so I would rather keep this issue open as a feature request.

[krodelabestiole]

add to this that some users (including myself) might not want to use the same audio device to listen to music or watch video on youtube (speakers) and to communicate (headset with mic). I don't know if any browser has any way to differentiate default audio devices from audio communication devices, but I'm pretty sure most of them don't.

[Peterede]

It is relatively simple to select an audio or video device using the config.media setting and passing the deviceId.
var audioSource = audioSelect.value; var videoSource = videoSelect.value;

  OCA.SpreedMe.webrtc.config.media = {
    audio: {
      optional: [{sourceId: audioSource}]
    },
    video: {
      optional: [{sourceId: videoSource}]
    }
  };

to get the sources: navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices().then(gotSources);

function gotSources(sourceInfos) { for (var i = 0; i != sourceInfos.length; ++i) { var sourceInfo = sourceInfos[i]; var option = document.createElement("option"); option.value = sourceInfo.deviceId; if (sourceInfo.kind === 'audioinput') { option.text = sourceInfo.label || 'microphone ' + (audioSelect.length + 1); audioSelect.appendChild(option); } else if (sourceInfo.kind === 'videoinput') { option.text = sourceInfo.label || 'camera ' + (videoSelect.length + 1); videoSelect.appendChild(option); } else { console.log('Some other kind of source: ', sourceInfo); } } }

The user can select the video and/or audio device before connecting the call then the deviceId is passed to startLocalVideo()

[Peterede]

It is relatively simple to select an audio or video device using the config.media setting and passing the deviceId.
var audioSource = audioSelect.value; var videoSource = videoSelect.value;

  OCA.SpreedMe.webrtc.config.media = {
    audio: {
      optional: [{sourceId: audioSource}]
    },
    video: {
      optional: [{sourceId: videoSource}]
    }
  };

to get the sources: navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices().then(gotSources);

function gotSources(sourceInfos) { for (var i = 0; i != sourceInfos.length; ++i) { var sourceInfo = sourceInfos[i]; var option = document.createElement("option"); option.value = sourceInfo.deviceId; if (sourceInfo.kind === 'audioinput') { option.text = sourceInfo.label || 'microphone ' + (audioSelect.length + 1); audioSelect.appendChild(option); } else if (sourceInfo.kind === 'videoinput') { option.text = sourceInfo.label || 'camera ' + (videoSelect.length + 1); videoSelect.appendChild(option); } else { console.log('Some other kind of source: ', sourceInfo); } } }

The user can select the video and/or audio device before connecting the call then the deviceId is passed to startLocalVideo()

[cryptoquick]

I ran into needing this feature when using Vivaldi on Linux. I tried going to chrome://settings/content/camera, but the settings don't seem to work on Nextcloud. It would be really handy to have a way to set this, and ideally, the setting would stay in localStorage or something browser-specific. Settings on that page do work on Chrome, however. I have this problem because I have a ThinkPad with Windows Hello support and it's set as the first camera in the OS. Perhaps I could try disabling the hardware, or something, but ideally, this could be just set in Nextcloud. Further, if I wanted to use my Logitech camera, I'd want that setting, regardless.

[nickvergessen]

First attempt was in https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/1450

[optiprime]

I didn't find an option for selecting the active camera in Firefox's settings. Talk does not even select the second (external) camera after disabling the first one (notebook internal camera) in the Windows Device-Manager. In this case it just says "No Camera". The WebRTC-based Jitsi-software (https://github.com/jitsi) allows to select camera and microphone from its settings menu. As Jisi is open-source it might be easy to lookup this solution in addition to Peterede's suggestion from above.

[mneiger]

Same as @optiprime here. Similar setting and same results including with Jitsi Thanks guys.

[nickvergessen]

Reopening as it's still not possible doing it while in a call.