VideoLocalView does not resume after re-enabling video

[nemesisridiculii]

I'm trying to show the local user's status (camera preview, mute status, etc.) using , but I'm running into the following issues:

1. If I disable video (using LocalToggleVideoButton) and then re-enable it, I get a blank display. I don't see my video anymore and I don't see my initials either.
2. I never see any audio activity. I see a mute indicator, but clicking this does nothing.

[dubeyShivank]

Hey there!
Sorry about the experience with VideoLocalView. We haven't encountered this issue ourselves - you can see a sample implementation here but I'm keen to understand this better.

Could I ask you for your browser version and OS please?

As a workaround until we find out the actual root cause, you can use LocalVideo.

[nemesisridiculii]

I'm running FIrefox 116.0.2 (64-bit) on Ubuntu Linux 23.04. I thought this also happened to me in Chromium, but I was not able to reproduce that just now, so maybe I'm mistaken. (Chromium version 115.0.5790.170 (Official Build) snap (64-bit) ).

As a quick and dirty test, I added the VideoLocalView to the comms videocall demo app and got the same result. Here is the patch that reproduces it:

diff --git a/src/routes/Conference/Conference.tsx b/src/routes/Conference/Conference.tsx
index bd728ea..9efa08f 100644
--- a/src/routes/Conference/Conference.tsx
+++ b/src/routes/Conference/Conference.tsx
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import {
   Modal,
   useCommsContext,
   isEdgeOrChromeBrowser,
+	VideoLocalView,
 } from '@dolbyio/comms-uikit-react';
 import useConferenceCreate from '@hooks/useConferenceCreate';
 import { usePageRefresh } from '@hooks/usePageRefresh';
@@ -337,6 +338,7 @@ export const Conference = () => {
                         : undefined
                     }
                   />
+									<VideoLocalView/>
                   {isOneParticipant && <OneParticipant />}
                 </Space>
               </Space>

LocalVideo works for me, so I'll use that. Thanks.