Comments on: Trick: Auto-select mac iSight in flash. http://www.squidder.com/2009/03/09/trick-auto-select-mac-isight-in-flash/ Actionscript you'll lose your ink over. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:08:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: gib http://www.squidder.com/2009/03/09/trick-auto-select-mac-isight-in-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-193 gib Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:31:07 +0000 http://www.squidder.com/?p=307#comment-193 Thank you for posting this. I was hitting a frustration limit, running examples from books just purchased, adobe.com, etc. Finally! The camera is showing up! This is a great solution -- thank you. Thank you for posting this. I was hitting a frustration limit, running examples from books just purchased, adobe.com, etc. Finally! The camera is showing up!

This is a great solution — thank you.

]]> By: Jon http://www.squidder.com/2009/03/09/trick-auto-select-mac-isight-in-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Jon Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:09:41 +0000 http://www.squidder.com/?p=307#comment-183 Awesome! Thanks for sharing! Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Zohar Babin http://www.squidder.com/2009/03/09/trick-auto-select-mac-isight-in-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Zohar Babin Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:08:08 +0000 http://www.squidder.com/?p=307#comment-182 Hi, At Kaltura we wanted the same, and when we got to write the ContributionWizard (A simple wizard to contribute content from different sources, amongst Cameta, File Upload, websites, etc.) we tried to find a way to automatically search for the most active Camera and Microphone devices. Two of the problem that rise: 1. Flash recognize everything, including ghost devices and in active application drivers - not just real cameras. 2. Iterating the devices may cause FireFox on Mac to crash. So we solved this eventually by iterating the devices and checking the image captured on bitmapData, and for Microphone we check the activity. And to solve the crashing problem there is a timeout between detection. This works, but takes too long depending on the # of devices you got. you can find the source for the detection class here (under com\kaltura\devicedetection): http://groups.adobe.com/files/e039de58cc/krecord.rar Hi,

At Kaltura we wanted the same, and when we got to write the ContributionWizard (A simple wizard to contribute content from different sources, amongst Cameta, File Upload, websites, etc.) we tried to find a way to automatically search for the most active Camera and Microphone devices.

Two of the problem that rise:
1. Flash recognize everything, including ghost devices and in active application drivers – not just real cameras.
2. Iterating the devices may cause FireFox on Mac to crash.

So we solved this eventually by iterating the devices and checking the image captured on bitmapData, and for Microphone we check the activity. And to solve the crashing problem there is a timeout between detection.

This works, but takes too long depending on the # of devices you got.

you can find the source for the detection class here (under com\kaltura\devicedetection):
http://groups.adobe.com/files/e039de58cc/krecord.rar

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