[Bugs] #284 UNSP: [Flash 10 on Browse] Flash 10 does not work with the webcam on the XO.

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#284: [Flash 10 on Browse]   Flash 10 does not work with the webcam on the XO.
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    Reporter:  overbyte                   |          Owner:  erikos                     
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  Browse                     |        Version:  0.82.x                     
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:  Flash Player, webcam       
Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:  Unconfimed                 
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 Flash 10 (version 10,0,15,3) still does not work with the XO's webcam.  I
 have Sugar build 767 installed.  When I visit a website that uses Flash in
 a video chat application (www.vyew.com), and I click to activate the
 webcam video, Flash pops up a security setting dialog asking for
 permission to let the website connect with my camera, but that Flash
 dialog window is frozen.   It won't respond to clicking, not even to
 clicking on the Close button.  The only way to close the dialog is to
 reload the page or navigate away.    I also get the same behavior when I
 right-click inside the Flash movie at the Adobe Flash Player "about" page
 on Adobe's web site and click on the Settings menu item there -- the popup
 settings dialog freezes on top of the movie.

 To rule out that this is a problem with Browse rather than Flash Player
 plugin itself, I launched Opera which I had previously installed on my XO.
 Opera is worse.  It won't even play the Flash movie at Adobe's "about"
 page and doesn't display the "Click to Play" message.   When I visit the
 page using Flash, I see error messages at Terminal from Opera, which I
 launched with the command "Opera &" to let it run as a separate process,
 saying that a module failed and is being ignored, so I suspect Opera is
 having trouble loading or initializing Flash Player 10 plugin.

 Looking at the output of the "top" command in Terminal, I see that there
 is very little memory available after Opera has loaded, so perhaps the
 little XO just doesn't have enough RAM to load Flash Player 10 when Opera
 is also running.   I don't know why "top" also reports that swap memory is
 not available.   Perhaps using swap would let Opera at least load
 FlashPlayer in virtual memory and run, although at poor speed.  Does the
 XO come configured to use the solid-state hard disk drive for a swap
 partition?  Must all running processes fit within the physical RAM space
 only?

 Even if Opera is too large to run with Flash Player 10, at least the
 smaller Browse browser can run Flash Player 10, so I would hope that
 someone at OLPC keeps some pressure on Adobe's Flash Player team to get
 Flash Player 10 working on the XO.   Or, if the problem lies in the Browse
 activity, then Sugar team should try to get Browse working with Flash
 Player 10's use of the webcam.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/284>
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