When I upgraded my n800 and the n810 arrived - I noticed it arrived with a Facebook link pre configured. The commercial video for the n810 also mentions Facebook a few times...

With this being the case I would have hoped that the device would have full support for facebook and the offical applications which come with it.

Using the standard site works great and I have no real complaints.

However, when it comes to Facebook video there are issues with both watching and also recording...

Viewing

When attempting to view a video from the facebook mobile application I was prompted to update my flash player





This is very annoying - embedded YouTube videos within facebook can be viewed perfectly.

Recording

Facebook Video has the ability to record video using a computers webcam with the help of flash.



The facebook video application could not detect the n810's built in webcam - this was also the case even though the camera was enabled and active (also obviously tried without)



When I checked in the flashplayer settings, neither the camera or microphone appeared as attached devices.



The help guide just advises to use the latest version of flashplayer...

What is the real issue here? I would expect the cam & mic to appear n the settings of flashplayer... Is this really a issue with the version of flash that the os2008 has preconfigured or is it that the drivers for the camera and mic are not connected to the flashplayer API?

Any help or pointers would be greatly received - I would love to be able to view and also record video to share with my friends and community via Facebook.

Well, the camera has never shown up as a flash device on the Nokia and OS2008 isn't any different. Youtube has the same sort of app to record via flash and I'm sure you'll find some posts on that. I seem to recall it coming down to the version of video4linux being used, but I could be wrong.

The problem is that Flash on Linux only supports V4L1 webcams - even though V4L1 is not included in the kernel anymore. Modern webcams on Linux - including the N8x0's and the entire Logitech line - all use V4L2 modules.

Anyway, the guy behind the Linux version of Flash - and it's webcam support - blogs about it here:
http://www.kaourantin.net/

Hopefully him and his bosses will eventually realise how important V4L2 is and it'll make its way into a future version of Flash.

Looks like someone already raised this as a bug.

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1889

By the sounds of things we will need an update to the flash player before this will work...

Unfortunately the onus is still on Adobe to get V4L2 support into Flash; as of v9.0b3 it's still V4L1-only, and the webcam routines libflashsupport.c are never called so we can't fix it ourselves.

Greetings:

Just a couple of hours ago Bill Gates made his last Technology speech at CES 2008.

In his speech he spoke about voice recognition intergration into 2008 hardware.

I find that V4L2 support in flash is important to implement into Linux.

Think of the advantages N800/810 users will have in recording live video directly into their blog sites or social network sites.

Reports/Journalists can videoblog their stories in realtime from their MID's.

I believe that we(Nokia N800/810 users) should continue writing about this bug and help the developers to make this plugin into Linux possible.

The ability to Videoblog your story gets more attention than Voice recognition on a blog page.

Keep the comments coming, lets get this done!!!!!!!!

Regards Robert

Greetings:

Here is a video of what could be done if Flash would work with Linux

Using a OQO UMPC, and the Flip Video Camera.

Enjoy the video:

http://www.gottabemobile.com/CES2008...nkingBags.aspx

Regards Robert

I don't really see the point of getting this working at all. Even the regular camera apps have MAJOR problems just using video with the camera, so even if support was added to Flash for it, you can expect it to be completely unusable and to freeze the tablets repeatedly.

No thanks.

^ agreed with above.

I actually do see a reason to fix this... Recording to Facebook (or any other online app) via the IT would be pretty cool -- and a huge reason for people to buy an IT in the first place. (Facebook works pretty flawlessly after just plugging a webcam into a desktop computer.)

-T.