# Error access camera from html5
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**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [February 22, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-access-camera-from-html5/332180 "2014-02-22T19:23:59Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Tonyy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tonyy)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-access-camera-from-html5/332180/1 "2014-02-22T19:23:59Z")
I did follow the code given, and has enabled getmedia @ chrome://flags, but still got an error.
anybody can help? (i am a newbie here).
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var video = document.querySelector("#videoElement");
navigator.getUserMedia = navigator.getUserMedia || navigator.webkitGetUserMedia || navigator.mozGetUserMedia || navigator.msGetUserMedia || navigator.oGetUserMedia;
if (navigator.getUserMedia) {
navigator.getUserMedia({video: true}, handleVideo, videoError);
}
function handleVideo(stream) {
video.src = window.URL.createObjectURL(stream);
}
function videoError(e) {
// do something
alert(“error”);
}
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\Display Webcam Stream\
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#container {
margin: 0px auto;
width: 500px;
height: 375px;
border: 10px #333 solid;
}
#videoElement {
width: 500px;
height: 375px;
background-color: #666;
}
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