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Stopping the camera whilst screensharing does not turn the webcam LED off on my mac #18456

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germain-gg opened this issue Aug 9, 2021 · 4 comments
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Stopping the camera whilst screensharing does not turn the webcam LED off on my mac #18456

germain-gg opened this issue Aug 9, 2021 · 4 comments
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A-VoIP O-Occasional Affects or can be seen by some users regularly or most users rarely Privacy S-Minor Impairs non-critical functionality or suitable workarounds exist T-Defect Z-Upstream

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germain-gg commented Aug 9, 2021 •
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Steps to reproduce

  1. Start a VoIP call with camera on
  2. Start screensharing
  3. Stop camera

What happened?

Camera has stopped, but the "green" LED that indicate that the webcam is active is still on

What did you expect?

I would expect that LED to switch off and the camera to stop recording

Operating system

macOs

Browser information

Chromium Version 92.0.4515.131

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app.element.io / Element Desktop
@germain-gg germain-gg added T-Defect A-VoIP S-Minor Impairs non-critical functionality or suitable workarounds exist O-Occasional Affects or can be seen by some users regularly or most users rarely labels Aug 9, 2021
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AFAICT, this has nothing to do with screen-sharing. This is a general regression

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Oh no, this isn't a regression, this is a general Chromium issue

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This is an upstream issue, see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=642785

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After discussing with Simon, it turns out this is a compatibility issue where disabled stream keep the LED turned on.
Other vendors can potentially remove the video track altogether but this was decided otherwise in Matrix as part of the MSC process, view matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#3291

Closing as this is already tracked on Chromium's issue board bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=642785

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