Ever since the pandemic has raised its ugly head, most of the meetings, classes are held online. Our CSIR family came up with MS Team, and there is this zoom meetings and Webex platforms. While all of them are fine so far, I had this strange issue with my google meet where, from my laptop, I could never start my camera. As a result, nobody could see me. Although this is not a problem, often my audio did not work. This created trouble while taking online classes. I had to come to office during wee hours to attend a meeting launched in google meet platform. While all other apps were fine with video, this problem persisted with google meet. Not to mention, this is the free platform that many of us like to use only added to my troubles. I checked all my settings, gave all desktop apps permission to access my camera regardless of the security threat - still all failed. The last nail on the head was when my daughters online classes started and teacher could not see her.
Today I decided to do one last try. I tried with an external camera but still no luck. Finally I started browsing again to find a solution. And dang this is what I got from google search @ https://support.google.com/meet/thread/41815190?hl=en
This is what I exactly did and my camera started working. Thanks to the amazing people for posting the response. In brave browser, this is the url where you can disable and relaunch the browser.
brave://flags/#enable-media-foundation-video-capture
On the first item "Media Panel Video Capture" make it disabled and relaunch the browser. it works fine.
