Camera/Microphone fails to start or takes too long to initialize

[vic.yang (Vic)]

Hi @lmtruong1512

It seems to be the same issue. I’ve replied in another thread — I’ll include the link here for reference.

Microphone initialization takes too long — retry logic and timeout handling advice

Hi @Thong1 Do you think it’s reasonable to apply a manual timeout of 5s to startAudio()/startVideo() to avoid long UI freezes? It’s not reasonable — a 5-second timeout is inappropriate. As you mentioned, it could involve network connections, and even if you retry after a timeout, you’d still need to reconnect, which would take just as much time. Since startAudio/startVideo are asynchronous methods, you can provide feedback to the user through the UI by indicating that audio/video is being …

Thanks
Vic