video4linux

Using Flashcam on Ubuntu

If you own an Asus EEE PC or another machine running Ubuntu and a camera which is only supported under Video4Linux 2 (V4L2) you will have noticed that it not possible to get your camera to work under Flash. This will hopefully change soon, with V4L2 support in Flash 10. However, as Flash 10 is still a release candidate you might find that you still have problems when using a V4L2 camera. I've seen this on websites that switch the camera off and on again during one Flash session, this seems to not work very well. There is another way to get the camera working under Flash though, the Flashcam project which gets around the lack of support for V4L2 webcams by forwarding the output of the camera to a simulation of device that uses Video4Linux 1, which is supported under Flash 9.

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