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Guide camera, constraints, exposure, lighting, MediaDevices, MediaStreamTrack, uvc

Fix Bad Lighting with JavaScript Webcam Exposure Controls (Sebastian Schmid)

Step-by-step guide on how to fix bad webcam lighting in your WebRTC app with standard JavaScript API’s for camera exposure or natively with uvc drivers.

Sebastian Schmid · May 31, 2022

Guide camera, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, getUserMedia, resolutions

getUserMedia resolutions III – constraints unleashed

Back in October 2013,  the relative early days of WebRTC, I set out to get a better understanding of the getUserMedia API and camera constraints in one of my first and most popular posts. I discovered that working with getUserMedia constraints was not all that straight forward. A year later I gave an update after the […]

Chad Hart · February 8, 2016

Guide Brief, camera, getUserMedia, resolution

WebRTC Video Resolutions 2 – the Constraints Fight Back

Note: See February 2016 update here. {“editor”, “chad“} Last October I did a post on some quirks I found when applying camera resolutions constraints with getUserMedia. Surprisingly I found the resolutions that were returned were sometimes different than what you ask for, even if you make your constraints mandatory. Firefox didn’t support programmable video resolution […]

Chad Hart · August 26, 2014

Guide camera, code, constraints, getUserMedia, resolution, Walkthrough

How to Figure Out WebRTC Camera Resolutions

Newer note: February 2016 update here. Note: Behavior has changed with latest versions of Chrome (v35+). Please see my update to this post here. {“editor”, “chad“} I have a confession to make about my WebRTC Motion Detecting Baby Monitor – the video quality was inconsistent and poor on the baby side of my original demo […]

Chad Hart · October 17, 2013

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