Accessing User Media Devices

Welcome! In this lesson, we'll learn how to access a user's camera and microphone directly from their web browser. This is the first step for any real-time video or audio application.

We'll use a powerful Web API called navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia().

getUserMedia() is a core WebRTC feature. It allows your web application to:

• Capture audio from a microphone.
• Capture video from a camera.
• Access these streams as MediaStream objects.

These streams can then be displayed, recorded, or sent to other peers.