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WebCamDevice.name is empty
(Cross-posted from forums: https://forum.unity.com/threads/webcamtexture-webcamdevice-name-is-empty.1155482/)
I basically have the same problem as this unresolved thread: https://forum.unity.com/threads/webcamtexture-and-device-without-name.532439/
I only have one webcam: the built-in laptop camera. The name is empty: 
and then creating the WebCamTexture fails: ERROR - Could not find specified video device
Using the default constructor (new WebCamTexture()) yields the same result.
Note that the simple VideoCapture api can record a video to a file just fine, but for my purposes, I need the frame-by-frame capabilities of WebCamTexture.
Sample code:
public class StreamingVideoCapture : MonoBehaviour
{
private WebCamTexture m_webCamTexture;
public void Start()
{
WebCamDevice[] devices = WebCamTexture.devices;
if (devices == null || devices.Length == 0)
{
return;
}
WebCamDevice device = devices[0];
m_webCamTexture = new WebCamTexture(device.name);
m_webCamTexture.Play();
}
}
If I use an external USB camera, it works fine, so it seems to be specific to my laptop camera. I came across this old bug regarding the camera name: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/webcamtexture-dot-devices-returns-empty-name-string-when-webcam-name-contains-special-characters, so I tried editing the camera name in the registry to remove any special characters (It's just "HP HD Camera"), but got the same result.
Any solutions here would be greatly appreciated.
