getUserMedia in Opera 12

June 14th, 2012. Tagged: (x)HTML(5), browsers

Opera 12 wins - the first stable desktop browser to ship getUserMedia(). I believe they had shipped it already in a mobile version of the browser.

(I'll need to fix my example from last night because Chrome Canary uses webkitGetUserMedia and also uses a stream URL to assign to video element's src)

You can start playing with it right now in Opera, no need to install nightly versions and enable secret flags. Here's how:

1. Install Opera
2. Load any page
3. Press Command + Alt + I (on a Mac) to bring the Dragonfly console (like Firebug)
4. Type:

document.body.innerHTML = '<video autoplay>';

and then

navigator.getUserMedia(
  {video:true}, 
  function(stream){document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].src = stream}
)

This is it, enjoy 🙂

Ever so slightly disappointed that {audio: true} gives a "not supported" error

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