# Pluto.jl webcam available?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-jl-webcam-available/44077>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [August 1, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-jl-webcam-available/44077 "2020-08-01T08:55:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-jl-webcam-available/44077/1 "2020-08-01T08:55:48Z")

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@fonsp I have just wtched the JuliaCon presentation. Great! Loved the ‘random’ Skype call. I should steal this idea.  
May I ask about the webcam interface? Is it possible to trial this now?  
Sorry to Mikolaj - your handle does not autocomplete when I search…

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**Author:** ![fonsp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fonsp/32/222349_2.png) [@fonsp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fonsp)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 9:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-jl-webcam-available/44077/2 "2020-08-02T09:43:09Z")

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Thanks! The notebook from the presentation is [here](https://github.com/lukavdplas/pluto-notebooks/blob/master/svd.jl). It’s not finished yet, so not everything is explained very well. But try it out, and let me know what you think!

(You need to click the camera image to take a picture.)

Eventually I will polish it up and it will go into PlutoUI.jl.

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-jl-webcam-available/44077/3 "2020-08-02T18:25:29Z")

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Yes! I get an image from my camera.

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 8:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-jl-webcam-available/44077/4 "2020-08-03T08:01:06Z")

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I hate to say it… when I first used VideoIO.jl to capture from a webcam it did not work. It took a long time for VideoIO to ‘catch up’ and make capturing from a webcam easy - though it does depend on ffmpeg.

You took a pragmatic decision to use existing Javascript and it works out of the box with a modern browser.  
I don’t know what my point is, but maybe one day there will be a pure Julia solution using the work of VideoIO.jl

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**Author:** ![PoyrazTahan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/poyraztahan/32/45171_2.png) [@PoyrazTahan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PoyrazTahan)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-jl-webcam-available/44077/5 "2022-12-17T11:22:35Z")

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Hey everyone, I am watching the Grant’s tutorial but when I ran the code it creates a box saying “enable camera” But I can’t 'nteract w’th the buttom. No matter what I do I couldn’t get it to activate.

I am using latest version julia (1.8.3) and Pluto v0.19.18 macOS Ventura 13.  
I have tried both on Chrome and Safari but didn’t help.

Let me know if this is not to place to ask this as well.

 ![Screenshot 2022-12-17 at 14.23.08](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/8/f/8f3111b2fd2b462e1a51db99d03a68042f418929.png)