Facetime HD Camera (Problem) - Yosemite 10.10.1

I made a video to show a step by step on the issue.
There seems to be an issue with Flash and the MacBooks internal camera when attempting to use it. There is a considerable lag effect happening, I too thought it was a lighting issue and improved my indoor lighting as well as got apps to control the settings. I have reinstalled OS X and rebooted several times, and the the problem still occurs.
On reboot the camera seems to be fine, as well as when opening a browser, it shows no change. As soon as I open a site that attempts to utilize the camera via flash, the camera seems to start its frame rate/lag effect.
I do not recall this occurring before the Yosemite update. Any help on this issue would be awesome as well as hearing from Apple's Technical Staff on what is being done to correct this issue. I will also be contacting Adobe to see what they are trying to do about this or if they are even aware there is a problem.
I am running:
MacBook Pro (retina, late 2013)
OSX Yosemite 10.10.1
Flash ver. 16.0.0.257
Forgive my babbling...  http://www.filedropper.com/macprofacetimehdcameraissue

Further messing around, finds that if I quit the browser and then open up the Activity Monitor, search for AppleCameraAssistant and quit it. It then auto restarts the process and the camera is functioning normally, again.
I uninstalled Flash and used Chrome, as it has a built in Flash Player from what I'm told. I then return to the same site (e.g. chatroulette.com) and have no issues.
Anyone have insight into what is going wonky. I know, I know, "just use Chrome and don't install Flash"... that may be a good point, but there should be a fix so one can use the normal Apple products, with the flash plugin.

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