Windows 8, problems to show cameras in a flash application

I have a flash application that shows at screen the cameras that the operating system detects, and works fine on windows 7 but now, in windows 8, i have troubles with several cameras. For example firewire cámeras or screen capture driver.
I made a simple test application:
http://mainstream.atnova.com/test/testCamaras.html
The same code executed like an air application seems to work, and the same webpage, running in windows 7, shows all the cameras right.
Is there any bug on flash player for windows 8?
Thanks.

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Now you have false for camera.muted property, but camera show zero FPS and have no name, because access is still denied in browser.
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Now you have access granted everywhere, but devices still have just spaces instead of real names.
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package
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.display.StageAlign;
    import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.events.TimerEvent;
    import flash.media.Camera;
    import flash.media.Microphone;
    import flash.media.Video;
    import flash.media.scanHardware;
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        private var output:TextField;
        private var timer:Timer;
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            addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, addedToStageHandler);
        private function addedToStageHandler(event:Event):void
            removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, addedToStageHandler);
            stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
            stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
            output = new TextField();
            output.border = true;
            output.multiline = true;
            output.wordWrap = true;
            output.x = output.y = 10;
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            updateView();
            stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, stage_resizeHandler);
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            var numCameras:int = 0;
            var numMicrophones:int = 0;
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                    log("No devices found for test.");
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            log("Devices are muted in browser.");
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For now it looks like modern browsers killing Flash with all that features and ugly solutions.
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dawid.loubser wrote:Thanks for the suggestion drtebi - I'll give it a try.
I really like GNOME 3.x though (and would like to understand the windowing behaviour), but if the annoying quirks are insurmountable, I will happily switch.
Man I love GNOME 3.x. I admire the courage they had to change, basically, everything, and I find myself more productive with my GNOME 3 Arch box than with my good ol' Slackware KDE 4 box. I just hate those bugs - for example I filed a task in their bugtracker for this window resize problem I have with gedit. If it's a love/hate relationship, I think it's marriage ^_^
With the 3.8 upgrade, deadbeef was having a similar problem with window size/position. I just recompiled it against the latest GTK+3 package upgrade (that came after the 'big upgrade' here on Arch) and it was fixed. But not with gedit
bwat47 wrote:
Man I really hope this gets fixed soon, because aside from this one incredibly annoying issue I am loving gnome 3.8.
I get the feeling gnome badly needs more beta testers, sizable regressions like this in "stable" releases happen way too often sad.
I get the exact same feeling. Well bugs exist everywhere, there's no denying. But I think it would be wiser to 'alternate' the nature of each major stable release - one focusing on new features and one focusing on fixing bugs. For example if the only new features in GNOME 3.10 were the AppsFolder full implementation and the introduction of gnome-calendar, and the rest of the development cicle being devoted to fix bugs, I'd be more than happy.
Like Fedora and Ubuntu, the fixed 6-month release cycle colaborates with the bugs. They don't do like Debian or Slackware which are released 'when they are ready'.
EDIT: fout (yet) another bug. At least with facebook chat (haven't tested with other telepathy plugins) the buddy tray icon appear duplicate. Anybody with the same issue?
Last edited by lmello (2013-05-02 14:06:06)

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