Webcam Test

Testing Area

• Detecting your media devices. Please wait.
• Waiting for your permission.
• Starting your webcam. Please wait.
• Detecting the maximum supported resolution. Please wait.
• For more information visit the following pages:
• Changing the camera will reset the current process. Do you want to continue?
• An unexpected error occurred. Reload the page and try again.
• Could not find any media devices. It is very likely that your browser does not allow access to these devices. Try to reload this page or open it using another browser. Just remember that to start your webcam you need to allow our website to use it.
• Could not find a web camera, however there are other media devices (like speakers or microphones). Most likely, this means that your webcam is not working properly or your browser cannot access it.
• Your browser does not support features for accessing media devices. Please upgrade your browser or install another one.
• You did not allow the browser to use the web camera. Reload the page and try again.
• Apparently, your webcam is being used or blocked by another application. To start your webcam, you must temporarily close that application.
• It looks like your browser is blocking access to webcam identifiers. Because of this, it’s impossible to detect and manage all available webcams.
• Waiting time for your permission has expired. Reload the page and try again.
• Cannot stream video. The cause may be a defective camera or that it is currently being used by another application.
• The video track is paused.
• Cannot detect any active stream of media content.
• Your webcam does not output any video tracks.
• Your browser does not support features for accessing video tracks.
• Video track not available due to technical issue.
• Your webcam suddenly stopped transmitting video track.
• For unknown reasons, the video track is disabled.
• Click here to allow access to webcam identifiers
• Click here to try forcibly start the camera
• Testing your webcam. Please wait.
• A web camera was detected. Press “Test my cam” to check the functionality and supported properties of your camera.
• Several web cameras were detected. To check the functionality and supported properties of your camera, select it from the list below and press “Test my cam”. Please note that in order to obtain more accurate results it is recommended to keep enabled only one webcam.
• Testing was completed successfully. The results are displayed in the “Webcam Information” table. Please read the following tips and do not forget to leave a review about your webcam.
• Testing was completed successfully. The results are displayed in the “Webcam Information” table. Please do not forget to leave a review about your webcam.
• It seems your webcam shows a one-color filling. This may be due to a malfunction or third-party application that “mutes” the video stream.
• Your webcam uses too few colors. Perhaps this is due to poor visibility or bad quality webcam.
• Your webcam operates in grayscale mode. Some devices may use this mode to conserve battery power.
• The room is too dark. Turn on the light or make sure that the webcam’s LED lights shine brightly.
• The image is too bright. If you are in the operating room, it’s all right. Otherwise, try to adjust the light in the room.
• Invalid aspect ratio (at least the image is too wide). Perhaps this is a technical defect or a software error.
• Invalid aspect ratio (at least the image is too narrow). Perhaps this is a technical defect or a software error.
• Unforgivable low resolution. Check your webcam settings and select a higher resolution.
• It seems your web camera streams video as a static image. Either the webcam hangs, or as a video source, it uses regular image.
• Our test detected a low frame rate (FPS). If you have a high-quality webcam, make sure that your system is not overloaded, and then repeat the test again.
• During testing, there were errors due to which it is impossible to determine some parameters of your web camera. Reload the page and try again.

• QQVGA (160×120)
• QCIF (176×144)
• QCIF (192×144)
• HQVGA (240×160)
• QVGA (320×240)
• Video CD NTSC (352×240)
• Video CD PAL (352×288)
• xCIF (384×288)
• 360p (480×360)
• nHD (640×360)
• VGA (640×480)
• SD (704×480)
• DVD NTSC (720×480)
• WGA (800×480)
• SVGA (800×600)
• DVCPRO HD (960×720)
• XGA (1024×768)
• HD (1280×720)
• WXGA (1280×800)
• SXGA− (1280×960)
• SXGA (1280×1024)
• UXGA (1600×1200)
• FHD (1920×1080)
• QXGA (2048×1536)
• QSXGA (2560×2048)
• QUXGA (3200×2400)
• DCI 4K (4096×2160)
• HXGA (4096×3072)
• UW5K (5120×2160)
• 5K (5120×2880)
• WHXGA (5120×3200)
• HSXGA (5120×4096)
• WHSXGA (6400×4096)
• HUXGA (6400×4800)
• 8K UHD (7680×4320)
• WHUXGA (7680×4800)
• UW10K (10240×4320)

Webcam Information

Webcam Name:	Not selected
Quality Rating:	—
Built-in Microphone:	—
Built-in Speaker:	—
Frame rate:	—
Stream Type:	—
Image Mode:	—
Webcam MegaPixels:	—
Webcam Resolution:	—
Video Standard:	—
Aspect Ratio:	—
PNG File Size:	—
JPEG File Size:	—
Bitrate:	—
Number of Colors:	—
Average RGB Color:	—
Lightness:	—
Luminosity:	—
Brightness:	—
Hue:	—
Saturation:	—

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Latest Testimonials

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About WebcamTests.com

This site provides a free tool to test your webcam online and check if it is working properly. In other words, you can test it directly from your browser without the need to install third-party software. Despite such an easy way, you can start testing your webcam “in one click” on different devices, including laptops, smartphones, TVs, tablets and others. Regardless of the device and the operating system, as a result of testing, you will not only know if your webcam is working, but also find out a lot of useful information about it (i.e, webcam name, resolution, frame rate, number of colors, image quality and many other specifications). In addition, if the testing tool detects any problems with your web camera, you will receive some hints on how to fix them. After completing the webcam testing, among other things, you can take photos with your webcam and download them. Also you can view it in fullscreen and rate your webcam.

Why do you need to test the camera?

• You purchased or connected a new webcam and want to check if it works properly (the webcam viewer will display the image in real time).
• You have doubts about the parameters of a newly purchased webcam and you want to test your webcam and its features (because not all sellers are honest).
• You have several cameras and you want to compare them to find out which one is better (the better the camera, the higher the “Quality Rating”).
• Want to find out if your camera has built-in microphone or built-in speaker (be aware, this feature is a little buggy).
• Want to know how many frames per second (FPS) renders your webcam (low FPS causes video lags).
• Want to know how many colors contains a photo taken with your webcam (more colors mean higher image quality).
• Want to know the resolution of your web camera (high-quality webcams have high resolution and can provide HD video calls).
• Check the quality of your webcam compared to other webcams (for this you need to leave a review about your webcam).

How to test your webcam?

Testing your webcam with our online tool is very easy: just wait until the web cameras are detected and press the “Test my cam” button. If you do not see this button and don’t receive any notifications, most likely an error occurred with your browser. To help you, please email us at info@webcamtests.com

How your webcam is tested?

1. First of all, it determines if the browser supports features for accessing media devices. If so, it displays a list of detected web cameras and necessary controls.
2. When you press the “Test my cam” button, the browser will ask permission to launch the web camera on this site.
3. After granting access, the camera will be launched and you will see the video in the webcam viewer.
4. Now it’s time to determine the maximum resolution of the web camera (among other things, it will allow to calculate the number of megapixels and detect supported video standard).
5. Next, it would determine the image quality (including number of colours, brightness, saturation).
6. After some measurements, the number of frames per second (FPS) is determined.
7. Among the latest tests, approximate video conferencing bandwidth is calculated.
8. Finally are displayed the testing results, hints and additional controls (i.e, take snapshots, enable fullscreen, stop webcam, update data).

Why do you need to leave a review?

Once testing is complete, you can leave a review about your webcam. This is not required, but we encourage you to do so in order to help other people to purchase a good webcam and get around the bad ones. In addition, after publishing your review, you will see how good is your compared camera to others.

What are the system requirements for running the online webcam test?

To test your camera, all you need is a modern browser (unfortunately, Internet Explorer does not belong to them) that supports features for accessing media devices. As you noticed, this webcam testing tool does not require any additional software like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight or browser add-ons.

Below are listed the operating systems and the minimum versions of supported browsers:

If your operating system or browser is not listed here, this does not mean that it is not supported. It just has not been tested yet. Therefore, feel free to check yourself.

Privacy

1. All operations necessary for testing are performed in the browser, and all data is stored only in the user’s device memory.
2. We do not save technical information until the user posts his review.
3. If the user does not publish the review, all data from device memory is destroyed when the page is closed.
4. Reviews are public and contain only technical information about the tested cameras.
5. We do not in any way store photos taken by users with their webcams.

Webcam Test

Use this online test to check if your web camera is working and properly set up.

Get Easily Started With Your Test!

If you can see on your screen the image that your webcam is taking then that means that it works correctly!

Your Privacy Is Important To Us

All our tests run on the «client side» — which means that we do not and can not see or record the image coming from your web cam.

The Test:

Trouble-Shooting Guide

• If you see yourself and the FPS count (the numbers on the camera image are FPS — the number of Frames Per Second your camera is taking), then, hooray – your camera passed the test!
• If you don’t see anything after confirming the browser message (if you had one) then your camera failed the test!

• If your camera didn’t pass the test, follow these steps:

Step 1. If you’re using Safari as your web browser you’ll need to try with a different browser, or a different test.

Step 2. Check that the webcam is connected to the USB socket. You should see something pop up on your computer screen, or hear a sound, when you connect the webcam again.

Step 3. Some webcam models have an «ON/OFF» switch — make sure that if yours has one — it is set to «ON».

Step 4. Try downloading the latest drivers for your webcam. Search the box or the camera itself for the name/number of the model, and then search google for «NAME OF MODEL driver». That should take you to a page where you can download and install new drivers.

More About This Page:

How does this test work? How does it test webcam capabilities?

In this test your browser asks for permission to see the output of your computer’s webcam, or the browser on your phone asks for permission to see the output of the camera — and the output is then transferred to your screen.

That makes it easy — if you see the cam video then you know it’s working and connected.

As was mentioned above, everything that happens happens in your computer and no information is being sent to our servers. We care about your privacy.

To the more techy among us: this test is built simply with Javascript, HTML5 and CSS, and is 100% on the client-side.

Why do you only test FPS and the camera’s video output? My webcam can also record sound.

True, some cams have a microphone built-in as well. But since that is not the case for everybody (and also for historic reasons), we decided to separate the audio and video to two different tests. If you’re looking to check if the audio of your webcam works, please check our mic test page.

Speaking of which. What exactly is FPS, and why is it important?

FPS is the number of frames, or images, that your webcam is taking and transmitting every second. This number is affected by the type of webcam that you have, and also by the speed of your computer and the number of tasks that it is engaged in at a given moment.

FPS matters because the higher this number is the more life-like and real the resulting video looks. We are used to seeing movies in the cinema and TV shows displayed at around 24-30 FPS. Generally the FPS of television is higher than that of the cinema.

So if, let’s say, you’re using Skype and the FPS your camera is recording is lower than 24, then that means that the image is going to look a little stuttery to the other side.

A number significantly higher than 30, meanwhile, just means that the video will be more fluid, more lifelike. This fluidity might seem a little odd to our eyes which are accustomed to 24-30 FPS, but generally a higher FPS count is a good thing. It will just look a little less «cinematic», and a little more «daily soap opera».

What do I do if after all the trouble-shooting stages my webcam still isn’t working?

To understand whether the problem is with the webcam or with your computer, we would advise that you try your webcam on a different computer. Also, if you have access to one, try a different camera at your own computer.

This should leave you with a better understanding on what’s working and what isn’t, and what needs to be fixed.

If you think the camera isn’t working (you tried it on two computers and it didn’t work), then contact the support staff of the camera’s brand.

If the camera is working on a different computer but isn’t working on yours — then it means there’s probably a software issue with your computer. You can try contacting us and we’ll try to help, hopping on a general tech support forum on the internet, or calling a technician.