Webcams ?!?!

[SchoolGirl95]

I've been camming for a year and just got on to this forum site, but I am having an incredibly hard time with my Logitech c920! Apparently Flash no longer wants to work with it and I can only use this cam on certain browsers...What webcams are the best besides this one? And is anyone else having this issue?

 

[Lorelei]

Hey, if you're talking about the problem in Chrome where you can't select a camera in the ModelWebBroadcaster, it's a recent known issue. As far as I'm aware, there's no fix for it yet... either MFC will do something or a new build of Chrome will fix it. I'm not sure if the problem is Mac-specific, but I think it might be given that a whole slew of girls have mentioned switching to Safari to broadcast recently. I didn't encounter the bug until last night but I also ended up using Safari to broadcast.

In short, it's not you, it's not the c920, it's just a (hopefully) temporary glitch!

P.S. I have no way of knowing if this is true, but there was a massive Flash security problem recently that resulted in Apple disabling unsafe versions of Flash... I suspect this might have something to do with the glitch. I know Chrome uses sandboxing within the app to run a contained version of Flash, so I'm not sure how much sense that makes, but yeah. Again, just speculating. More info here: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/20/apple-blocks-older-adobe-flash-plug-in-versions-on-os-x

P.P.S. In future when starting a new thread, it's super helpful to use a more descriptive title. This particular glitch is one that's affecting a lot of people and the title of this thread doesn't make it clear that you're referring to this specific bug.

 

[SchoolGirl95]

Thank you so much ! And I'm actually not running on a Mac but the problem I've been researching is with flash due to it not being resourceful anymore they are actually cycling it out of service completely so any updates you do on your computer will no longer be compatible to flash since it's so outdated now.
Now with the cam issue I'm finding that some cams might still be compatible with the old flash but The only way to find that out is by buying it and testing it out which can be a waste of money depending on where you buy it from. Chrome has been my issue and it apparently is linked with flash which sucks but I'm still doing research and trying to figure it all out!
Thank you for the forum advice, this is my first time and wasn't quite sure what to do so I just gave it a go! I appreciate what you said !! It certainly helped

 

[yummybrownfox]

On three different cam sites, I've been having problems with my cam video freezing up, or getting kicked out of my chat completely (I have the Logitech C920). Someone suggested that I just uninstall it from my computer, and reinstall it. I did that yesterday, and was able to broadcast without any problems at all. Such a relief because I thought I was gonna have to buy a new webcam.

 

[SchoolGirl95]

On three different cam sites, I've been having problems with my cam video freezing up, or getting kicked out of my chat completely (I have the Logitech C920). Someone suggested that I just uninstall it from my computer, and reinstall it. I did that yesterday, and was able to broadcast without any problems at all. Such a relief because I thought I was gonna have to buy a new webcam.

I will have to do that today !! Thank you so much, it's been such a hassle. Apparently flash is going out so that's another issue but I'm sure everything will get sorted out soon. Again thank you !

 

[weirdbr]

Ressurrecting this thread since I missed it to begin with:

Hey, if you're talking about the problem in Chrome where you can't select a camera in the ModelWebBroadcaster, it's a recent known issue.

And good news, Chrome M47 is out and fixes it.

I suspect this might have something to do with the glitch. I know Chrome uses sandboxing within the app to run a contained version of Flash, so I'm not sure how much sense that makes, but yeah. Again, just speculating.

It wasn't intentional - if you look at the bug report, they enabled secure origin enforcement for webrtc (only allowing https sites and file:// URLs and to use the camera/microphone), but accidentally this also enabled it for flash. But looking at the commit message for the fix, they mention in passing this enforcement will also be done later for Flash ("This special case should be removed after HTTP access for Flash has been deprecated (crbug.com/526324)." , but like all Chrome security bugs, access is limited to Chrome developers only ) , so it would still make sense to nag MFC to move the flash applets to be served over https (and wouldn't hurt if they also checked if RTMPS is in use).

 

[SchoolGirl95]

Ressurrecting this thread since I missed it to begin with:



And good news, Chrome M47 is out and fixes it.




It wasn't intentional - if you look at the bug report, they enabled secure origin enforcement for webrtc (only allowing https sites and file:// URLs and to use the camera/microphone), but accidentally this also enabled it for flash. But looking at the commit message for the fix, they mention in passing this enforcement will also be done later for Flash ("This special case should be removed after HTTP access for Flash has been deprecated (crbug.com/526324)." , but like all Chrome security bugs, access is limited to Chrome developers only ) , so it would still make sense to nag MFC to move the flash applets to be served over https (and wouldn't hurt if they also checked if RTMPS is in use).

Thanks you !! I Actually think they patched everything cause im now able to use everything which is really nice, and has made my cam life so much easier