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Finally EEEPC camera adobe flash support
04/04/08
(updated Dec. 27th) Finally thanks to My EeePC Blog there is a simple way to put Flash 10 on your old EEEPC. Some caveats, this method replaces some core libraries and may break other software you have installed. Packages it is known to break are build essentials, vlc, xchm, amule and some others. I used this method and it worked fine for me. The steps are fully explained at http://eeepc-albkwan.blogspot.com/2009/03/install-firefox-3-with-flashplayer-10.html so I won't repeat them here. If you decide that you don't want to take this radical a step you can still use the instructions shown below to get your camera working with the EEEPC default Flash installed. You should be aware that many websites only work with Flash 10 so upgrading as described above is probably your best option.
Though Flash 10 works most of the time you may have trouble getting it to recognize your camera. Getting things going on ustream.tv can be quite a chore. The good news is that the flashcam still works with Linux Flash 10 if you have trouble. You can also check out Flash camera support on the EEEPC 701 for my survey of flash based video websites and how to get them to work on the EEEPC 701.
The release of Flash 10 for Linux has rendered this method less necessary see EEEPC flash camera support without flashcam for details. Flash 10 has support for V4L2 which is what the EEEPC camera uses. Installing Flash 10 on your EEEPC brings with it a whole host of new issues.
I thought there must be a way to get the camera on the Asus EEEPC to work with Flash 9 which is the default the EEEPC shipped with. 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:
- download the file to your user directory
- extract the files by right clicking the file and choosing extract in the file manager, you should see a new vloopback folder created
- open a terminal window using CTRL-ALT-T and cd to the vloopback directory
- enter ./vlback.sh and press enter
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.
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It works great...
Very good work.
/home/user/vloopback> ./vloopback.sh
insmod: error inserting 'vloopback.ko': -1 File exists
Failed to open loop device: /dev/video2 No such file or directory
So many of my friends were fighting with this issue and I was incredibly happy to see it resolved in any way at all .
:) thank you! Loads!
There is a problem, the system answer me the lines belows :
.....
/home/user/vloopback> ./vlback.sh
In:cr?ation d'un lien direct /dev/video' vers /dev/video0': le fichier existe
Input device: /dev/video
VIDIOC_QUERYCAP error 25, Inappropriate ioctl for device
.....
After that my camera is not awaible in any program on xandros, I have to start again the system!
Where is the problem please? thank you
The VIDIOC_QUERYCAP error 25, Inappropriate ioctl for device seems to occur when Adobe flash tries to open the device without the flashcam software running. The only I've found to clear it is to reboot the EEEPC.
I am grateful that you remember what Eee stands for - EASY !!
My green light is on and www.mebeam.com works just great.
using the terminal window:
got the error for ./vlback.sh
File exists
Failed to open loop device: /dev/video2 No such file or directory
but double clicking the vlback.sh in file manager did work, turning the webcam light green and allowing me to use mebeam.com, BUT
my eeepc now seems to hang all the time, and I can't open firefox windows, skype, or use the shutdown button to shutdown. The ONLY way I can get click function back is to reboot by holding down the power key once to bring up the non-functional shutdown menu (non functional after running the scrip) then holding down the power button again.
Any help on what's happening? any way to keep the webcam changes and lose the pc lockup?
And as Flash 10 doesn't seems to bring easy correction of that problem....
Thanks by advance if you can package it.
And thanks for the solution as it is, too !
I believe that I followed all the steps.
1. downloaded flash-cam to my user directory.
2. extracted in the file manager.
3. Did see the folder vloopback.
4. Open terminal and typed in ./vlback.sh
5. Then, got permission denied.
I don't know where to go from here. Don't know what I did wrong. Insight please.
does it supported already?
Thank you
I'm desperate to get it working :L
so far i've:
* downloaded the file to your user directory
* extracted the files by right clicking the file and choosing extract in the file manager, you should see a new vloopback folder created
* open a terminal window using CTRL-ALT-T and cd to the vloopback directory
its the third step that gets me. what exactly does ''cd to the vloopback directory'' mean? and how can i do this?
if i can figure that out i'm sure i can get this working.
open a terminal and type
cd vloopback and type enter
so far i've:
* downloaded the file to my user directory
* extracted the files by right clicking the file and choosing extract in the file manager, I saw a new vloopback folder created
* opened a terminal window using CTRL-ALT-T and tried cd to the vloopback directory
when i open the terminal window and typed in ''cd vloopback'' and then pushed enter. nothing happened. the terminal window displayed this:
bash: cd: vloopback: No such file or directory
i checked my file manager and extracted the files and saw that there is in fact a vloopback folder.
so what exactly am i doing wrong or is happening?
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