Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

The previous series managed to just work using a hack I wrote until an update, but could someone with an actual n900 device (or knowledge) confirm whether a site that uses Flash to capture video (games/chat/ustream, youtube) does or does not work with the n900?

This would be the one iPhone killer for me and many others since many web sites use Flash and the iPhone doesn't have real flash, only some cripplets.

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

Perhaps you could post a link to a good site in the wiki or here?

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

From what I believe timeless said on #maemo, no, they aren't supported so we may need your hacking abilities yet again.

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

http://www.motiongames.net/ is one, but my netbook doesn't want to accept clicks on the camera enable.

http://www.sillywebcam.com/ has links to more.

"supported" can mean anything from they purposely disabled it, to it is there but doesn't work well.

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

Yes, the camera works with Flash, but only the big camera on the back, not the webcam on the front.

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

@Qole
Were you being sarcastic saying that the camera has a 2 LED flash?
Or [for the first time] can the Adobe Flash plugin read a camera in Linux? Perhaps the back camera ala the N97 uses S60 firmware? o.O

I'm just going to assume you were joking.

The feature of Adobe Flash to view webcam feeds seem to only work in Windows. Which I find odd since Linux support of webcams is fairly standardized. Most webcams use either v4l or v4l2 under Linux. Of the course the mystery that is Adobe is just that.

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

linuxeventually, I didn't say anything about the flash, but it appears that it does indeed have two LEDs as a flash.

(EDIT: Oh I get it, Adobe flash and LED flash... haha)

Adobe asks for permission to use the webcam, and it shows the back camera's view. Choosing settings for Adobe Flash lets you go to the webcam tab and try to select the webcam, but there's only one available (the front camera isn't a choice).

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

Great! and Thanks! (you might try renaming or redoing mknod to /dev/video /dev/video0 /dev/video1, etc to rearrange which camera is "default" - this is sort of what I did in my original hack).

Now I really, really want to get one - I want to use ustream, and AFAIK it requires flash to do live/recording streams.

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

Great! and Thanks! (you might try renaming or redoing mknod to /dev/video /dev/video0 /dev/video1, etc to rearrange which camera is "default" - this is sort of what I did in my original hack).

Now I really, really want to get one - I want to use ustream, and AFAIK it requires flash to do live/recording streams.

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

not using the front cam by default (or at least giving a choice) seems strange, though. wouldn't you primarily use the cam together wity flash for web-based video chat services? what else could you do with any cam from within a flash application that would require the cam facing away from you rather than towards you?

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

If i was sending pictures to UStream of something I was looking at, I would need the outward camera.

There is normally a "camera settings dialog" which might take some effort to get to, but should list the compatible video sources letting you select. Alternately there might be some bitflip switch buried in the API. Skype and the movie recorder have to find the right camera.

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

As I said, the Flash settings page had only the back camera as a choice.

Just a note, all the demo units of the N900 are running beta-level software. The inability to use the front-facing cam might change in the final release. I couldn't find any other Nokia apps using the front cam, either...

Also, as I mentioned in my article, Qik is in the repositories for streaming video...

Re: Does the N900 Adobe Flash work with the Camera?
 

The ability to use it for flash based video chat would be a great feature.

Given that there are more demo units out there, has anyone successfully used the front facing camera for anything?