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(updated Aug. 24th) Looks like I may have spoke too soon. Though the release candidate works sometimes I have had problems getting it to work on mebeam.com and live.yahoo.com. It has also worked intermittently for me on ustream.tv, the good news, the flashcam still works with the latest release candidate for Linux Flash 10 if you have trouble.
The release of Flash 10 Beta 2 for Linux has rendered this method obsolete see EEEPC flash camera support without flashcam for details. Flash 10 Beta 2 has support for V4L2 which is what the EEEPC camera uses.
I thought there must be a way to get the camera on the Asus EEEPC to work with flash. The sticking point was that the camera driver on the eeepc was v4l2 and linux flash plugin only supports v4l. Someone who was more energetic than I finally decided to do something about it. It's a bit of a convoluted installation but it seems to work You need this file flash-cam-eeepc-1.tgz The download file has been changed to add sudo chmod 666 /dev/video to the beginning of the vlback.sh file after some people reported problems with device permissions. This download file combines the original two downloads from http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=203137, the original topic thread. This saves the irritating wait to download from the file sharing site where the files were hosted. I have also included the modified script that worked for me.
To use:
You should see
ln: creating hard link `/dev/video' to `/dev/video0':
Input device: /dev/video
Size = 320 x 240
and the green camera light should come on. Don't close the terminal window unti you are done using the camera in flash. In your flash application be sure that you choose the vloopback device and not the uvc camera.
If I get some time over the weekend I will create a .deb package.
I neglected to give credit to The Flashcam project the guys who made all this possible.