camera and mic device settings

[Pablo_P_]

Hi,

For some users the default camera and mic devices might not be the desired devices.

I know you can get the flash settings popup with a right click but it's small and users don't understand what to do there.

How does LCCS handle this situation?

Is there a component for webcam and mic settings that let the user choose from a list of available devices and test them?

Flash only scan the devices once if it finds at least one device but sometimes this device might be a virtual camera like google plugin

or a broken device like the built-in camera in a laptop. If a user connect a new camera after flash made the scan, this camera won't be available.

How do you handle that?

Thanks

[Raff_]

LCCS doesn’t do anything to prompt you to select a devices or to find new devices. If the FlashPlayer list of devices is updated and correct you can read it using the standard ActionScript API and select the appropriate device.

[Pablo_P_]

What do you do when the default selected camera doesn't work but the user does have a working camera connected?

We want to let our users test the camera before entering the room to prevent problems.

Isn't there some component I can use?

If we'll end building a component for that, can I change the default camera LLCS pods use?

[DrAlexGor]

Just thinking this through in my head ... you could have a custom view in your app that tests that camera / audio is working before starting to publish to everyone.

1) Start app

2) Display a custom view to just the one user:

3) http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/Camera.html#names > Flex API Camera "names" property can get you all the names available

and maybe iterate on the available cameras and set the "cameraNameIndex" on WebcamPublisher

Alex G.