Screensharing in Angular 6 in Firefox












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I'm making an Angular application and I need to be able to share the users screen.
I'm using adapter.js version 6.4.8 and testing it in Firefox Developer 64.0b11 & Firefox 63.0.3, I know there are a lot of differences in implementations between browsers. I want to make the application work in Firefox at least, if I can support more browsers that's even better.



After running the following command



npm install webrtc-adapter && @types/webrtc


I imported the adapter like this:
import 'webrtc-adapter'



There are a lot of changes being made around capturing screens in webRTC recently it seems, the most recent draft of WebRTC specs says you have to implement screencapture like this:



try {
let mediaStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video:true});
videoElement.srcObject = mediaStream;
} catch (e) {
console.log('Unable to acquire screen capture: ' + e);
}


Implementation in my project



Using this method gives the error in both versions of Firefox:



TypeError: "navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia is not a function"


Also, in the node CLI if gives me this error:



ERROR in src/app/video/video.component.ts(32,52): error TS2339: Property 'getDisplayMedia' does not exist on type 'MediaDevices'.


I also found this post:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/20EhEy_ahKg
Which states (I think?) that the navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia is not supported until Firefox 64/65.



But isn't that what the adapter.js API is for? I thought adapter.js acted as an abstraction layer between the spec and different browser implementations.



At this point I don't know what I'm doing wrong, am I importing the webrtc-adapter wrong in my Angular project, interpreting the specs wrong?



I hope I provided you with enough information for you to help me, I'd really appreciate help with this problem because webRTC is new to me and I don't know what to do next.



Handy links I found trying to solve this problem:



Share screen in Firefox using RTCMultiConnection



https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/getdisplaymedia-now-available-in-adapter-js/



https://jsfiddle.net/jib1/q75yb8pf



These are solutions of how to solve this problem in javascript, but I can't seem to make it work in typescript.



EDIT: I got it to work thanks to the answers of Philipp Hancke & jib, what I did is import the webrtc-adapter like this:



import adapter from "webrtc-adapter";


And called it from my code like this:



    var video = document.querySelector('video');
if (adapter.browserDetails.browser == 'firefox') {
adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia(window, 'screen');
}
navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video: true}).then(this.onSucces).catch(this.onError);
}

onSucces(stream: MediaStream): void{
var video = document.querySelector('video');
video.srcObject = stream;
video.onloadedmetadata = function(e) {
video.play();
};
}

onError(error: Error):void {
console.log('Error message: ' + error.message);
console.log('Error name: ' + error.name);
}









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    I'm making an Angular application and I need to be able to share the users screen.
    I'm using adapter.js version 6.4.8 and testing it in Firefox Developer 64.0b11 & Firefox 63.0.3, I know there are a lot of differences in implementations between browsers. I want to make the application work in Firefox at least, if I can support more browsers that's even better.



    After running the following command



    npm install webrtc-adapter && @types/webrtc


    I imported the adapter like this:
    import 'webrtc-adapter'



    There are a lot of changes being made around capturing screens in webRTC recently it seems, the most recent draft of WebRTC specs says you have to implement screencapture like this:



    try {
    let mediaStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video:true});
    videoElement.srcObject = mediaStream;
    } catch (e) {
    console.log('Unable to acquire screen capture: ' + e);
    }


    Implementation in my project



    Using this method gives the error in both versions of Firefox:



    TypeError: "navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia is not a function"


    Also, in the node CLI if gives me this error:



    ERROR in src/app/video/video.component.ts(32,52): error TS2339: Property 'getDisplayMedia' does not exist on type 'MediaDevices'.


    I also found this post:
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/20EhEy_ahKg
    Which states (I think?) that the navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia is not supported until Firefox 64/65.



    But isn't that what the adapter.js API is for? I thought adapter.js acted as an abstraction layer between the spec and different browser implementations.



    At this point I don't know what I'm doing wrong, am I importing the webrtc-adapter wrong in my Angular project, interpreting the specs wrong?



    I hope I provided you with enough information for you to help me, I'd really appreciate help with this problem because webRTC is new to me and I don't know what to do next.



    Handy links I found trying to solve this problem:



    Share screen in Firefox using RTCMultiConnection



    https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/getdisplaymedia-now-available-in-adapter-js/



    https://jsfiddle.net/jib1/q75yb8pf



    These are solutions of how to solve this problem in javascript, but I can't seem to make it work in typescript.



    EDIT: I got it to work thanks to the answers of Philipp Hancke & jib, what I did is import the webrtc-adapter like this:



    import adapter from "webrtc-adapter";


    And called it from my code like this:



        var video = document.querySelector('video');
    if (adapter.browserDetails.browser == 'firefox') {
    adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia(window, 'screen');
    }
    navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video: true}).then(this.onSucces).catch(this.onError);
    }

    onSucces(stream: MediaStream): void{
    var video = document.querySelector('video');
    video.srcObject = stream;
    video.onloadedmetadata = function(e) {
    video.play();
    };
    }

    onError(error: Error):void {
    console.log('Error message: ' + error.message);
    console.log('Error name: ' + error.name);
    }









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      I'm making an Angular application and I need to be able to share the users screen.
      I'm using adapter.js version 6.4.8 and testing it in Firefox Developer 64.0b11 & Firefox 63.0.3, I know there are a lot of differences in implementations between browsers. I want to make the application work in Firefox at least, if I can support more browsers that's even better.



      After running the following command



      npm install webrtc-adapter && @types/webrtc


      I imported the adapter like this:
      import 'webrtc-adapter'



      There are a lot of changes being made around capturing screens in webRTC recently it seems, the most recent draft of WebRTC specs says you have to implement screencapture like this:



      try {
      let mediaStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video:true});
      videoElement.srcObject = mediaStream;
      } catch (e) {
      console.log('Unable to acquire screen capture: ' + e);
      }


      Implementation in my project



      Using this method gives the error in both versions of Firefox:



      TypeError: "navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia is not a function"


      Also, in the node CLI if gives me this error:



      ERROR in src/app/video/video.component.ts(32,52): error TS2339: Property 'getDisplayMedia' does not exist on type 'MediaDevices'.


      I also found this post:
      https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/20EhEy_ahKg
      Which states (I think?) that the navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia is not supported until Firefox 64/65.



      But isn't that what the adapter.js API is for? I thought adapter.js acted as an abstraction layer between the spec and different browser implementations.



      At this point I don't know what I'm doing wrong, am I importing the webrtc-adapter wrong in my Angular project, interpreting the specs wrong?



      I hope I provided you with enough information for you to help me, I'd really appreciate help with this problem because webRTC is new to me and I don't know what to do next.



      Handy links I found trying to solve this problem:



      Share screen in Firefox using RTCMultiConnection



      https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/getdisplaymedia-now-available-in-adapter-js/



      https://jsfiddle.net/jib1/q75yb8pf



      These are solutions of how to solve this problem in javascript, but I can't seem to make it work in typescript.



      EDIT: I got it to work thanks to the answers of Philipp Hancke & jib, what I did is import the webrtc-adapter like this:



      import adapter from "webrtc-adapter";


      And called it from my code like this:



          var video = document.querySelector('video');
      if (adapter.browserDetails.browser == 'firefox') {
      adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia(window, 'screen');
      }
      navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video: true}).then(this.onSucces).catch(this.onError);
      }

      onSucces(stream: MediaStream): void{
      var video = document.querySelector('video');
      video.srcObject = stream;
      video.onloadedmetadata = function(e) {
      video.play();
      };
      }

      onError(error: Error):void {
      console.log('Error message: ' + error.message);
      console.log('Error name: ' + error.name);
      }









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      I'm making an Angular application and I need to be able to share the users screen.
      I'm using adapter.js version 6.4.8 and testing it in Firefox Developer 64.0b11 & Firefox 63.0.3, I know there are a lot of differences in implementations between browsers. I want to make the application work in Firefox at least, if I can support more browsers that's even better.



      After running the following command



      npm install webrtc-adapter && @types/webrtc


      I imported the adapter like this:
      import 'webrtc-adapter'



      There are a lot of changes being made around capturing screens in webRTC recently it seems, the most recent draft of WebRTC specs says you have to implement screencapture like this:



      try {
      let mediaStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video:true});
      videoElement.srcObject = mediaStream;
      } catch (e) {
      console.log('Unable to acquire screen capture: ' + e);
      }


      Implementation in my project



      Using this method gives the error in both versions of Firefox:



      TypeError: "navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia is not a function"


      Also, in the node CLI if gives me this error:



      ERROR in src/app/video/video.component.ts(32,52): error TS2339: Property 'getDisplayMedia' does not exist on type 'MediaDevices'.


      I also found this post:
      https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/20EhEy_ahKg
      Which states (I think?) that the navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia is not supported until Firefox 64/65.



      But isn't that what the adapter.js API is for? I thought adapter.js acted as an abstraction layer between the spec and different browser implementations.



      At this point I don't know what I'm doing wrong, am I importing the webrtc-adapter wrong in my Angular project, interpreting the specs wrong?



      I hope I provided you with enough information for you to help me, I'd really appreciate help with this problem because webRTC is new to me and I don't know what to do next.



      Handy links I found trying to solve this problem:



      Share screen in Firefox using RTCMultiConnection



      https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/getdisplaymedia-now-available-in-adapter-js/



      https://jsfiddle.net/jib1/q75yb8pf



      These are solutions of how to solve this problem in javascript, but I can't seem to make it work in typescript.



      EDIT: I got it to work thanks to the answers of Philipp Hancke & jib, what I did is import the webrtc-adapter like this:



      import adapter from "webrtc-adapter";


      And called it from my code like this:



          var video = document.querySelector('video');
      if (adapter.browserDetails.browser == 'firefox') {
      adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia(window, 'screen');
      }
      navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video: true}).then(this.onSucces).catch(this.onError);
      }

      onSucces(stream: MediaStream): void{
      var video = document.querySelector('video');
      video.srcObject = stream;
      video.onloadedmetadata = function(e) {
      video.play();
      };
      }

      onError(error: Error):void {
      console.log('Error message: ' + error.message);
      console.log('Error name: ' + error.name);
      }






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          screensharing is not shimmed by default, see the mozilla hacks post for instructions how to use getDisplayMedia. Also make sure you are using the latest adapter.js version, getDisplayMedia moved recently.






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          • When trying to use adapter.browserDetails.browser & adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia() typescript gives the following error: [ts] Cannot find name 'adapter'. [2304], do you know why this is? It seems like it doesn't know what adapter is and can't access. Is it a problem with the importing of webrtc-adapter? I'm using version 6.4.8 of webrtc-adapter which is the latest.

            – RobbeV
            Nov 21 '18 at 20:01













          • try importing like this: import adapter from "webrtc-adapter"; beyond that it might be a typescript thing which i know nothing about.

            – Philipp Hancke
            Nov 21 '18 at 20:35











          • Yeah that did the job, thanks a lot! And keep up the good work ;)

            – RobbeV
            Nov 21 '18 at 20:39



















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          It works for me in Firefox with adapter-latest.js like this:



          adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia(window, "window"); // or "screen"

          (async () => {
          try {
          video.srcObject = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video: true});
          } catch(e) {
          console.log(e);
          }
          })();


          Unfortunately, Firefox still forces the app to pick between sharing the full screen or a window. This should be fixed once it's supported natively.






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            screensharing is not shimmed by default, see the mozilla hacks post for instructions how to use getDisplayMedia. Also make sure you are using the latest adapter.js version, getDisplayMedia moved recently.






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            • When trying to use adapter.browserDetails.browser & adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia() typescript gives the following error: [ts] Cannot find name 'adapter'. [2304], do you know why this is? It seems like it doesn't know what adapter is and can't access. Is it a problem with the importing of webrtc-adapter? I'm using version 6.4.8 of webrtc-adapter which is the latest.

              – RobbeV
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:01













            • try importing like this: import adapter from "webrtc-adapter"; beyond that it might be a typescript thing which i know nothing about.

              – Philipp Hancke
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:35











            • Yeah that did the job, thanks a lot! And keep up the good work ;)

              – RobbeV
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:39
















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            screensharing is not shimmed by default, see the mozilla hacks post for instructions how to use getDisplayMedia. Also make sure you are using the latest adapter.js version, getDisplayMedia moved recently.






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            • When trying to use adapter.browserDetails.browser & adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia() typescript gives the following error: [ts] Cannot find name 'adapter'. [2304], do you know why this is? It seems like it doesn't know what adapter is and can't access. Is it a problem with the importing of webrtc-adapter? I'm using version 6.4.8 of webrtc-adapter which is the latest.

              – RobbeV
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:01













            • try importing like this: import adapter from "webrtc-adapter"; beyond that it might be a typescript thing which i know nothing about.

              – Philipp Hancke
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:35











            • Yeah that did the job, thanks a lot! And keep up the good work ;)

              – RobbeV
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:39














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            screensharing is not shimmed by default, see the mozilla hacks post for instructions how to use getDisplayMedia. Also make sure you are using the latest adapter.js version, getDisplayMedia moved recently.






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            screensharing is not shimmed by default, see the mozilla hacks post for instructions how to use getDisplayMedia. Also make sure you are using the latest adapter.js version, getDisplayMedia moved recently.







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            • When trying to use adapter.browserDetails.browser & adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia() typescript gives the following error: [ts] Cannot find name 'adapter'. [2304], do you know why this is? It seems like it doesn't know what adapter is and can't access. Is it a problem with the importing of webrtc-adapter? I'm using version 6.4.8 of webrtc-adapter which is the latest.

              – RobbeV
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:01













            • try importing like this: import adapter from "webrtc-adapter"; beyond that it might be a typescript thing which i know nothing about.

              – Philipp Hancke
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:35











            • Yeah that did the job, thanks a lot! And keep up the good work ;)

              – RobbeV
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:39



















            • When trying to use adapter.browserDetails.browser & adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia() typescript gives the following error: [ts] Cannot find name 'adapter'. [2304], do you know why this is? It seems like it doesn't know what adapter is and can't access. Is it a problem with the importing of webrtc-adapter? I'm using version 6.4.8 of webrtc-adapter which is the latest.

              – RobbeV
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:01













            • try importing like this: import adapter from "webrtc-adapter"; beyond that it might be a typescript thing which i know nothing about.

              – Philipp Hancke
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:35











            • Yeah that did the job, thanks a lot! And keep up the good work ;)

              – RobbeV
              Nov 21 '18 at 20:39

















            When trying to use adapter.browserDetails.browser & adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia() typescript gives the following error: [ts] Cannot find name 'adapter'. [2304], do you know why this is? It seems like it doesn't know what adapter is and can't access. Is it a problem with the importing of webrtc-adapter? I'm using version 6.4.8 of webrtc-adapter which is the latest.

            – RobbeV
            Nov 21 '18 at 20:01







            When trying to use adapter.browserDetails.browser & adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia() typescript gives the following error: [ts] Cannot find name 'adapter'. [2304], do you know why this is? It seems like it doesn't know what adapter is and can't access. Is it a problem with the importing of webrtc-adapter? I'm using version 6.4.8 of webrtc-adapter which is the latest.

            – RobbeV
            Nov 21 '18 at 20:01















            try importing like this: import adapter from "webrtc-adapter"; beyond that it might be a typescript thing which i know nothing about.

            – Philipp Hancke
            Nov 21 '18 at 20:35





            try importing like this: import adapter from "webrtc-adapter"; beyond that it might be a typescript thing which i know nothing about.

            – Philipp Hancke
            Nov 21 '18 at 20:35













            Yeah that did the job, thanks a lot! And keep up the good work ;)

            – RobbeV
            Nov 21 '18 at 20:39





            Yeah that did the job, thanks a lot! And keep up the good work ;)

            – RobbeV
            Nov 21 '18 at 20:39













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            It works for me in Firefox with adapter-latest.js like this:



            adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia(window, "window"); // or "screen"

            (async () => {
            try {
            video.srcObject = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video: true});
            } catch(e) {
            console.log(e);
            }
            })();


            Unfortunately, Firefox still forces the app to pick between sharing the full screen or a window. This should be fixed once it's supported natively.






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              It works for me in Firefox with adapter-latest.js like this:



              adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia(window, "window"); // or "screen"

              (async () => {
              try {
              video.srcObject = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video: true});
              } catch(e) {
              console.log(e);
              }
              })();


              Unfortunately, Firefox still forces the app to pick between sharing the full screen or a window. This should be fixed once it's supported natively.






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                It works for me in Firefox with adapter-latest.js like this:



                adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia(window, "window"); // or "screen"

                (async () => {
                try {
                video.srcObject = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video: true});
                } catch(e) {
                console.log(e);
                }
                })();


                Unfortunately, Firefox still forces the app to pick between sharing the full screen or a window. This should be fixed once it's supported natively.






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                It works for me in Firefox with adapter-latest.js like this:



                adapter.browserShim.shimGetDisplayMedia(window, "window"); // or "screen"

                (async () => {
                try {
                video.srcObject = await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia({video: true});
                } catch(e) {
                console.log(e);
                }
                })();


                Unfortunately, Firefox still forces the app to pick between sharing the full screen or a window. This should be fixed once it's supported natively.







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