Chrome: navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia is not a function

Question

I\'m on localhost and trying to use the MediaDevices.getUserMedia method in Chrome. I receive the error as titled. I understand that in Chrome it is only possible to use thi

Answer 1

I got stuck in the same issue. One solution is to follow and download the extension Web Server for Chrome shared in the comment above by @ellerynz, or

if you have python installed you could also do

python -m SimpleHTTPServer [port]

After you hit enter, you should see the following message:

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

Open the browser and put

http://127.0.0.1:[port]