[Sugar-devel] libflashplayer.so and WebCam issue

[James Cameron]

Thanks Sam, I agree it looks like a very large task and won't come
soon; it might not ever happen.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 04:58:37AM +0000, Sam P. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I doubt that webrtc support (HTML5 camera access api) will come soon.
> 
> Firstly, it appears to be a driver issue for Firefox.  Fedora 20 ships with
> Firefox 25, and webrtc (getUserMedia) was introduced as early as in Firefox
> 17.  But Browse does not use Firefox/gecko anymore.
> 
> Browse uses WebKitGtk which is does not even support permission requests for
> camera.  Epiphany uses WebKitGtk2, which does support camera permission
> requests.  However, as of Fedora 23 Rawhide (updated last week), there is no
> support for webrtc (aka. actually accessing the camera) in Epiphany according
> to my tests.
> 
> I have no idea what your flash app is doing, but the path of least resistance
> probably involves many hacks on top of Gtk2.  I don't think that the XO camera
> works with Gtk3, from memory it is blocking the Gtk3 Record port.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sam
> 
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 2:40 PM Gustavo Duarte <[1]gus.duarte at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hey James,
> 
>     I agree with you that the way should be achieve  HTML5 support. I expect it
>     be done soon.
> 
>     Than you very much.
> 
>     Gustavo.
> 
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