Shawdog22 wrote:

I'm trying to get the webcam working with Adobe's Flash Player.

Flash not working with the uvcvideo driver seems to be a known issue:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-uvc-d … 01258.html

I have my webcam working with flash sites like mebeam
it is a bit of a hack, but it is functional,
what I used was a modified version of vloopback from here:
http://swifthumors.blogspot.com/2008/03 … dache.html
along with a program called flashcam (also available there)
I had to modify the makefile to get it to compile and I used these commands once I got the module to build:
first I make sure the camera is on:

sudo echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera

then load the module:

sudo insmod vloopback.ko

and finally start capturing from the camera and sending it to the loopback:

./flashcam -d /dev/video -l /dev/video2

you can try using my pre-compiled files, and my example of a really simple script I have uploaded them here:
http://www.zshare.net/download/95942506b2124c/

I hope this is of use to others too.

EDIT:
I compiled these on the original xandros - kernel: 2.6.21.4-eeepc

Last edited by CaptainX (2008-03-26 8:02:57 pm)

those are similar to the original recommended options, for some reason they didn't work for me.  Glad that you got it working too.
I noticed also that the video size was small, and flashcam doesn't take size parameters, so I edited the code and recompiled for 320x240 video- quick and easy to do yourself but, here is the compiled result:
http://www.zshare.net/download/96236508147805/

Sorry for the question, but how do I install this stuff? or where do i download these files so i can run the command line?  i keep getting a not found message. thanks!

someone should make a eee deb for this tutorial : http://www.swift-tools.net/Flashcam/
it' work well on my ubuntu

Last edited by manatlan (2008-04-03 4:49:04 pm)

Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this work. I was too lazy to do it myself and I am so happy someone has finally got the EEEPC webcam working in flash, I'll try to put together a .deb this weekend. In the meantime I have put together a rough howto and posted it at http://wdawe.com/index.php/finally-eeep … ort?blog=1

i solved the problem with a simple reboot, thanks!  working now like a charm.  Perhaps the best way to run this script would be with a tray icon that activates or deactivates the camera. 

disregard:



I got an error the first time about a bad character in the module.

and this the second time:

Failed to open loop device: /dev/video9 No such file or directory

the instructions seemed simple enough.  i wonder what i'm doing wrong.

Last edited by TabulaRasa (2008-04-05 8:23:22 am)

At one point I got the permissions on /dev/video goofed up and that caused problems so there is still some flakeyness. Make sure you close any applications that use the camera. Chcck the permissions on your video device files using ls -l /dev/video*. Here are mine
/home/user/vloopback> ls -l /dev/video*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root  81, 0 2008-04-03 19:20 /dev/video
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2008-04-04 23:46 /dev/video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 1 2008-04-04 23:47 /dev/video1
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 9 2008-04-04 23:47 /dev/video9

If /dev/video has goofed up permissions open a terminal windows and enter the command.
sudo chmod 666 /dev/video

Here is what you should get when you run the script, the error on the second line occurs because the script has already run and the vloopback module is already installed. Everything should still work even if that error occurs.

/home/user/vloopback> ./vlback.sh
insmod: error inserting 'vloopback.ko': -1 File exists
ln: creating hard link `/dev/video' to `/dev/video0': File exists
Input device: /dev/video
Size = 320 x 240

This is working great, the one thing i notice in tokbox is that the video seems to be more zoomed in, like it's missing some of the field.  when i use skype, i seem much further from the camera.  anybody else seeing this? not a big issue, but maybe related to resolution being higher than tokbox?

The 160x120 version of flashcam is included in the files I packaged. in vlback.sh change flashcam-l to flashcam and you should get the smaller version.

FYI, the fisrt time I tried this I got the dreaded ioctl "error 25". I had to reboot to get it to work.

I have seen the vloopback module error before. If you rerun the script it shouldn't appear a second time. Make sure your rn the script before you open your browser and flash tries to access the camera.

Are execute permissions set on flashcam-l? Are you sure it's in the directory?