Facebook Live and Webcam

[masterartmason]

Hello Everyone

I am new to the community and in a way Linux. I have been running Linux in a server (VPS) for sometime now for my website, but I finally got sick enough of Windows 10 to install Linux Mint on my business laptop. I am thrilled!

My question today is Facebook is not seeing my internal webcam (Toshiba laptop). Cheese see the webcam no problem. How to I get Facebook to see it?

Any ideas would be very welcome! OBS did not find it either.

Thank you!

Art

[p-murphy]

Hey art.
With OBS, was it able to see the webcam but not get any video from it? If so then try restarting OBS will still having a webcam selected, because it fixed it for me.
As for Facebook, do any other websites work with your webcam or is it just Facebook?

[masterartmason]

The only 2 I use are YouTube and Facebook. Neither see the cam. Neither does oBS. Cheese sees it fine.

[p-murphy]

Have you tried using another browser?

I'm not sure about OBS, The cam should just show up as "Video capture device"

[masterartmason]

That I have not tried. I will reinstall firefox and see.

Very odd problem.