Flashplayer for voice meetings: how to block Webcam

[ar i]

Hi, I recently discovered wengomeeting which uses flashplayer for voice & video
conferences.
Flashplayer is great for this, but I run into a problem.

1) The person I met had no webcam but a TV-Tuner in his PC, same as me. His
"TV Tuner" Software was off, and even so I received his TV signal via
Flashplayer!!!!

In such a case, I just wanto to allow
How can the And there was no way to stop this transmission. We need an option
to selectively block Video transmission when desired.

2) We need a way to send out an invitation to an existing meeting on-the-fly
from the meeting webpage, to add a third person.

3) Time zone support is a must. The current "GMT+1" system is OK for geeks
like me but not for the average non-technical user.

By the way, the whole idea is awesome, and audio quality is simply great. Even
more so considering that I use Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) and the other party uses
WinXP.

Thanks!!

[Bentley Wolfe -ADOBE]

First, Flash Player is -always- supposed to ask permission before accessing
mic/cam. If that's not happening on Ubuntu check with wengomeeting.

Second, go to this technote. On the left hand side you can learn about mic/cam
settings:

[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_man[/url]
ager.html

Basically find a SWF and right-click it and choose Flash Player settings.

However, the real problem is that the security model assumes that you'd want
both off (as you know). It's fairly simple to approve the communication and
turn the mic's recording volume to zero (effectively ending the audio). But
there's no option to turn off just the cam. You've have to physically unplug it
as a Flash Player end user.

It -is- something the developer can control. So you might want to check with
wengomeeting about that too..

[ar i]

Hi Bentley,

Thanks for your answer.

Yes I do get a permission request from Flash Player, that works fine, the
problem is that it applies both to the webcam and the mic, and I would like to
be able to only enable Mic, not webcam.

I think this would be useful in many use cases.

In one particular case of a PC with a TV Tuner and no webcam, FlashPlayer
thinks the TVTuner is a webcam and actually transmits the tuned TV channel as
the video, which is funny (and a bit annoying). This would be fixed by an "only
permit Mic" option, or, too, if Adobe adds something like a "Null" device in
the Webcam list that justs transmits black. The same null device concept would
be useful for the Mic device selection.

Just an idea for future flashplayer releases.


And yes, I did contact the wengomeeting devs, hopefully we might get a fix or
workaround in their next release.

Thanks!



[q]Originally posted by: Bentley Wolfe -ADOBE
First, Flash Player is -always- supposed to ask permission before accessing
mic/cam. If that's not happening on Ubuntu check with wengomeeting.

Second, go to this technote. On the left hand side you can learn about mic/cam
settings:

[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_man[/url]
ager.html

Basically find a SWF and right-click it and choose Flash Player settings.

However, the real problem is that the security model assumes that you'd want
both off (as you know). It's fairly simple to approve the communication and
turn the mic's recording volume to zero (effectively ending the audio). But
there's no option to turn off just the cam. You've have to physically unplug it
as a Flash Player end user.

It -is- something the developer can control. So you might want to check with
wengomeeting about that too..

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