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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [November 23, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092 "2014-11-23T00:06:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 4
**Author:**  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/64 "2019-11-26T15:38:21Z")
Then that sounds like a configuration issue with your webcam and your operating system or browser. It might not be related to any code that you have ☹
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**Author:**  [@sankarasubramanian\_c](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sankarasubramanian_c)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/65 "2019-11-26T15:53:03Z")
Oh okay.I’ll check.By the way thanks for guiding me and all your blogs are super cool to read and understand.
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**Author:**  [@lawlawpio](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lawlawpio)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/67 "2020-01-21T03:34:53Z")
is the code available for [asp.net](http://asp.net) mvc?
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**Author:**  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/68 "2020-01-21T06:16:36Z")
The code is just regular JavaScript, so you should be able to use it in your [asp.net](http://asp.net) MVC app.
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**Author:**  [@lawlawpio](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lawlawpio)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/69 "2020-01-21T06:29:59Z")
is the flash player required? im sorry, im still learning [asp.net](http://asp.net)
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**Author:**  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/70 "2020-01-21T06:32:33Z")
No, no Flash player required 😛 It’s all standards-based JavaScript. Good luck learning [ASP.net](http://ASP.net). It’s one of the first big non-Flash items I learned many years ago, and it was a lot of fun. It’s also one of the first big items I fully forgot as well over the years haha.
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**Author:**  [@lawlawpio](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lawlawpio)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/71 "2020-01-21T06:42:01Z")
can it capture and store it to database?
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**Author:**  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/72 "2020-01-22T05:03:24Z")
Yes, you can do that. You can save the imagedata from the webcam as a stream of encoded text and store it in any database. Some databases are more sophisticated and will allow you to store the image as an image directly.
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**Author:**  [@lawlawpio](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lawlawpio)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/73 "2020-01-30T01:57:21Z")
what code am i going to use to make the webcam capture?
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**Author:**  [@Jason\_Hornor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jason_Hornor)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/74 "2020-04-02T15:53:01Z")
Thanks for the great code!
I’ve installed a little demo on my site at: [https://littlekaboose.com/zumba/videodemo.html](https://littlekaboose.com/zumba/videodemo.html)
It works great in Firefox and Edge. But in Chrome I get an exception:
_navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia error: DOMException: Permission denied_
When I view your demo in Chrome, it works fine as well. So it’s likely not Chrome itself.
I don’t see any prompts in Chrome for accessing a webcam on my site. I’ve checked the Site Settings so make sure I didn’t already block it.
Any idea’s what i’m missing?
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**Author:**  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/75 "2020-04-02T19:51:31Z")
Are you on a Mac device?
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**Author:**  [@Jason\_Hornor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jason_Hornor)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/76 "2020-04-02T20:41:43Z")
It actually worked great on a Mac running safari.
Windows 7 and Windows 10 both work except for Chrome.
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**Author:**  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/77 "2020-04-02T22:17:19Z")
That is really bizarre! I will check tonight on a Parallels instance and see why this isn’t working properly on Windows. It is even more strange that the simpler example on the site does work.
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**Author:**  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/78 "2020-04-03T05:46:50Z")
I’m stumped. It doesn’t work in Chrome in both Windows 10 and macOS Catalina ☹
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**Author:**  [@Jason\_Hornor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jason_Hornor)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/79 "2020-04-03T12:36:22Z")
I’m glad I’m not crazy.
I’ve been reading about the [Feature-Policy](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Feature-Policy/camera) http header. Maybe I can configure my server to pass that back. I’ll give it a try.
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**Author:**  [@Jason\_Hornor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jason_Hornor)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/80 "2020-04-03T12:44:56Z")
That was it!
I use IIS. The Feature-Policy header was already present, with a value of ‘none’.
I changed it to ‘self’ and it now works with Chrome!
Thanks again for your great write-up and quick response.
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**Author:**  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/81 "2020-04-03T17:10:20Z")
I have never heard about the feature-policy header! Glad you got it sorted out 😛
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**Author:**  [@Rishabh\_Jain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rishabh_Jain)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/82 "2020-04-09T06:50:52Z")
Hi Kirupa,
I tried this([https://www.kirupa.com/snippets/examples/stop\_webcam\_stream.htm](https://www.kirupa.com/snippets/examples/stop_webcam_stream.htm)) and implemented a start button as well so that I can toggle between on and off, but every time I click on start it asks for permission of camera.
I placed the entire if block inside my function for start.
Is there any way that can be bypassed and permission be asked only once.
Best Regards,
Rishabh Jain
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**Author:**  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/83 "2020-04-11T07:19:31Z")
Do you have a link to your example? I’d like to see the code and better understand what is going on 🙂
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**Author:**  [@Rishabh\_Jain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rishabh_Jain)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-your-webcam-in-html5/352092/85 "2020-04-11T09:42:14Z")
function start(){
console.log(“start”);
if (navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia) {
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ video: true })
.then(function (stream) {
video.srcObject = stream;
})
.catch(function (err0r) {
console.log(“Something went wrong!”);
}); } }
function stop() {
```
console.log("stop");
var stream = video.srcObject;
var tracks = stream.getTracks();
for (var i = 0; i < tracks.length; i++) {
var track = tracks[i];
track.stop();
}
video.srcObject = null;
}
```
These are the two functions in my script and they are called in click of two individual buttons.
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