Why is getUserMedia throwing a [object NavigatorUserMediaError] when I click “Allow” in Chrome?

Question

Recently, I started getting errors when trying to access the client\'s mic through my website. When Chrome asks whether to allow the site to access the user\'s microphone, <

Answer 1

This can happen in two situations and I've experienced both in Ubuntu 12.04:

• You have clicked Deny once and then the browser saves that setting, always returning error when asked for media access in that page. (This does not seem to be your case as you get the question from browser, but you just have to go to the address bar, click in the camera icon and change the option to ask again).

• Your browser is not having access to the media devices and as in any computer without cameras nor microphones, even if you press Allow, you will get an error event as it cannot give you any streams. Try to check the browser settings to see if you can choose the selected camera. I've experienced this and the list was empty. To solve this I had to reboot the machine and Chrome started showing the list of devices again.