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Webcam support in Flash 10 (Linux)

by Calvin Robinson on November 18, 2008.

Okay so this took me all day to figure out.

Basically, Flash 9 had great webcam support – but lousy sound support. And in Flash 10 they fixed sound support, but broke older webcam support (by adding V4L2, I believe they removed V4L1 support. Or vise versa).

Well I tried compiling my own kernal, with pcw support. Tried using EasyCam to install my webcam drivers. I mean, I’m using a Logitech QuickCam, one of the most popular brands in the world – you’d think it would be supported.

I eventually fixed it, and this is how;

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