#8644 HIGH 9.1.0: Webcam only shows static in Adobe Flash 10

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#8644: Webcam only shows static in Adobe Flash 10
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           Reporter:  object404  |       Owner:  wad                              
               Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  high       |   Milestone:  9.1.0                            
          Component:  hardware   |     Version:  Update.1                         
         Resolution:             |    Keywords:  webcam adobe flash static problem
        Next_action:  diagnose   |    Verified:  0                                
Deployment_affected:             |   Blockedby:                                   
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Comment(by overbyte):

 I can't get any video at all on my XO in FlashPlayer 10 (version
 10,0,15,3) in a Flash application at www.vyew.com.  When I try to activate
 the webcam in that application, Flash Player pops up a security settings
 window asking for permission to allow www.vyew.com to access the camera
 and microphone, but that settings window is frozen.  Clicking the Allow
 radio button doesn't work, nor does the Close button in the security
 window.   Since the security setting window has grabbed focus, the
 application itself is greyed out and does not respond.   The only way to
 kill the security window is to reload the browser page or navigate away.
 When I try the right-click menu in the Flash application on the
 www.adobe.com/products/flash/about page, the settings window similarly
 grabs and freezes.  www.vyew.com runs fine with webcam on a PC laptop
 running VISTA with Flash Player 10.

 The above was all done using the standard Browse activity.  Using Opera
 9.12 for Linux (build 544), I get only a gray box on the adobe "about"
 page where Browse did display the Flash movie.  Since I launched Opera
 from Terminal, I could read error output by returning to Terminal, which
 showed that Opera complained about a plug-in not responding and closing
 it.   I think this was the Flash plug-in not responding in Opera.
 Looking at the launch of Opera, I see warnings that two library modules
 could not be loaded, including libjvm (Java Virtual Machine), so I suspect
 that Opera won't even run Flash Player 10 due to insufficient RAM in the
 XO.  When I try to load a Flash application (www.vyew.com) I get a
 segmentation fault message out of Opera's terminal output.  I can run the
 little movie at the Adobe Flash "about" page on the standard XO Browse
 activity, but not on the larger Opera browser.   Looking at memory
 allocations and availability on "top" command in Terminal while Opera is
 also running (launched with command "Opera &") shows very little free
 memory and no swap space allocated at all.

 All of this leads me to suspect that the little XO doesn't have enough RAM
 to run Flash Player 10 fully operational inside of a browser.  Perhaps
 changing the swap allocation would help, but I don't know how to do that.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8644#comment:4>
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