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Flash does not think I have a webcam installed

Asked by david wideman

My webcam (Trust spotlight webcam 0c45:6310 Microdia ) works in cheese and guvcview, but when I try to test with Flash I get a message 'you do not seem to have a camera installed'

Using the following website http://www.testwebcam.com/ to test the webcam and adobe flash 10.1 r102 in firefox 3.6.13

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf

Thanks.

Have you tried other browsers??

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david wideman (david-wideman) said : 		#2

output from the dpkg is:-
ii flashplugin-installer 10.1.102.65ubuntu0.10.04.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
ii libswfdec-0.8-0 0.8.4-1build1 SWF (Macromedia Flash) decoder library
ii swfdec-mozilla 0.8.2-1ubuntu2 Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macromedia Flash)

Tried your other suggestion and installed seamonkey, what do you know webcam works in seamonkey. Correctly displays screen asking for authorization to access camera, when click ok cam shows.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Ok you have too many plugins which WILL cause issues.

sudo apt-get --purge remove swfdec-mozilla libswfdec-0.8-0 flashplugin-installer; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Should fix it nice

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david wideman (david-wideman) said : 		#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

If you have more than one flash plugin they fight and you get issues. The command simply removed ALL flash and installed the single plugin, resolving the conflict

Glad you got the gold