Chromium not recognizing Pi camera?

[czar1na]

I'm trying to stream video with the Pi Zero and Pi Camera. I'm on the default Chromium browser that comes with the latest Raspbian Jessie (Pixel). I'm attempting to initiate a Google Hangouts video call from Chromium. I have allowed Google Hangouts to access the camera/mic in Chromium.

However, I see "no camera available" and "no microphone available" in Chromium when I try a Google Hangouts video. I'm sure that the Pi camera is properly connected to the Pi, as I can capture videos/images from the terminal. How can I make Chromium recognize the camera device?

[6by9]

Have you loaded the v4l2 driver?

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sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2 

[czar1na]

Have you loaded the v4l2 driver?

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sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2 

I had not! That did the trick, now the camera is recognized

When I create the video call from the Pi, it does start successfully now, but just shows a 'loading icon' and never successfully sends any video from the Pi Camera. Here is what it looks like in the web Skype client: http://imgur.com/a/Ty4wI

To be clear, I am only trying to send video from the Pi over the call, not receive it.

Any ideas what is wrong?

[Isaiah-d2]

That worked for me, but the video quality wasn't nearly as good as with the terminal.

[6by9]

There was a bug in Chromium that meant it requested 0x0 as the desired resolution, which the driver will increase to 32x32 as that is the minimum supported resolution. You could confirm that with "v4l2-ctl -V" after having run Chromium.
You used to be able to work around that one using the same workaround as worked for gstreamer (don't report the supported resolutions), but upstream saw fit to remove that as gstreamer got fixed.

[ranieri.machado]

chrome://setings/content -> Site settings -> Microphone / Camera