Ionic v5 web media capture with capacitor – cordova_not_available

Issue

I am building an app with Ionic 5, Capacitor 2 and Angular 11.
I need to capture video and audio using the media capture cordova plugin.

I installed the following modules:

npm install cordova-plugin-media-capture
npm install @ionic-native/media-capture

And added MediaCapture to the providers of my app module.
Then I call mediaCapture.captureVideo() to retrieve a video ; unfortunately an exception is thrown when testing on a browser: cordova_not_available

The github repo states this plugin is web-compatible, and its sources have a browser implementation. However the window.navigator.device.capture is missing to make this plugin work.

Is it a bad configuration from my side? Or this cordova plugin wouldn’t be compatible with capacitor?

I made a repro : https://stackblitz.com/edit/ionic-v5-media-capture-capacitor?file=src/app/app.component.ts

Thank you for your help

Solution

I wrote a regular Angular version for the web, if anyone need it:

async browserCapture() {
  const stream: MediaStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(this.constraints);
  const recorder = new MediaRecorder(stream, {mimeType: 'ogg'});
  const chunks: Blob[] = [];
  recorder.ondataavailable = (event: BlobEvent) => {
    if (event.data && event.data.size > 0) {
      chunks.push(event.data);
      this.zone.run(() => {
        this.recordChunks = [...chunks];
        this.cd.markForCheck();
      });
    }
  };
  this.recorder.onstop = () => {
    this.zone.run(() => {
      stream.getTracks().forEach(t => t.stop());
      if (chunks?.length) {
        this.upload(new Blob(chunks, {type: 'ogg'})); // use the blob result
      }
    });
  };
  recorder.start(500);
}

Answered By – Alexis Deprez

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