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Czajka
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December 18, 2007
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OLPC XO, Connect and webcam

  • December 18, 2007
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I may be the only one in the world trying to run a Connect session on the OLPC XO, but I thought I would throw this out there. The OLPC XO is a Linux based laptop with minimal horsepower. I installed Flash 9.0.115.0 on it, and while Flash works, it is a little underpowered on the machine. Surprisingly, I can get a Connect session to work on it (as a client, not presentor). It allows me to choose the built in web cam, but I get a black screen in the video pod. When I select the Advanced settings of the webcam, it doesn't open up a dialog.
I don't know how tuned to Connect is to Linux; are there any settings I can change perhaps to get this to work?
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    PDFoxycontact
    Participating Frequently
    September 24, 2008
    "Connect is all Flash based. So the trick is getting a Flash version that can recognize your webcam. I think we should consider this issue." -- hmmm welll...maybe we should
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    LuckyNumberSleven
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    September 14, 2008
    A Unix laptop sounds like an excellent way to test on Unix, especially for browser compatibility.
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    Anonymous
    January 26, 2008
    Connect is all Flash based. So the trick is getting a Flash version that can recognize your webcam.
    I think we should consider this issue.

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    wsipc-mike
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    January 3, 2008
    I think the laptop being Linux is secondary. Connect is all Flash based. So the trick is getting a Flash version that can recognize your webcam. Also, I believe the XO laptop users the Opera browser by default - which is not supported by Connect in Linux (Mozilla Firefox 1.5 only).

    Check here for a definitive list of different Flash versions that are supported on different browsers:
    http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14159&sliceId=1
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    CzajkaAuthor
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    January 11, 2008
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse

    Currently, the Web browser uses the same Gecko browser engine as Firefox. However, our browser is simpler than Firefox and is not directly compatible with Firefox add-ons. Applications can also use xulrunner which includes Javascript capability. An alternate, more complex browser for the OLPC is Opera.

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