#7001 HIGH -: XO's Camera not working with Flash Player

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#7001: XO's Camera not working with Flash Player
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           Reporter:  maverick   |       Owner:  jg      
               Type:  defect     |      Status:  new     
           Priority:  high       |   Milestone:          
          Component:  distro     |     Version:  Update.1
         Resolution:             |    Keywords:          
        Next_action:  never set  |    Verified:  0       
Deployment_affected:             |   Blockedby:          
           Blocking:             |  
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Changes (by gnu):

  * next_action:  => never set


Comment:

 Appears to still be broken in 8.2.0, according to this devel posting:

 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:56:59 +0800
 From: "Carlos Nazareno" <object404 at gmail.com>
 To: devel at lists.laptop.org
 Subject: Re: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

 Hi Stan!

 > I'm having problems:  Adobe FlashPlayer doesn't detect the XO's built-in
 > webcam so it can't transmit video out to the Internet on Flash-enabled
 > web sites,

 I've documented this problem as well at
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash -> The XO's webcam is not
 interfacing properly with Adobe Flash 9 & 10. Adobe's done a lot of
 work towards getting cameras in various Linux distros working with
 webcam enabled-Flash apps, and they finally got V4L2 running last
 year, but apparently the XO is using some kind of not-as-common
 chipset/software combo (in 8.2.0 I think the OS is using a weird
 mishmash of old & new software/drivers because of problems with the
 cam in the webcam activity on newer drivers?).

 I got in touch with some Adobe guys last year before Flash Player 10
 final launched about Flash's webcam interfacing problems on the XO,
 filed the bug report, followed their instructions and submitted the
 hardware info gathered from the data-gathering tool at Penguin.swf's
 (Adobe's official Linux Flash dude) blog:

   http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/07/paparazzi_v2_1.html

 Anyway, I haven't heard a word from the Adobe folks yet as I guess
 that was a very busy time for them with Flash 10 final release going
 out the door at the time, the report probly got lost in all the
 hubbub. Anyway, I'll try following up with them as I'd like to play
 with writing some Flash webcam toys that would work on the XO myself.

 >I can't get Flash to activate the
 > XO's camera... ...This was while running on the XO's Browse activity.

 The camera works with the Browse Activity, just not properly (the
 camera turns on and it displays red & green static that reacts to
 objects waved in front of the camera)

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