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Google Talk prevents access to webcam on Safari running on Mac OS X #947

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Google Talk prevents access to webcam on Macs running earlier version of Flash 
within Safari.

When running Safari 5.0.5 on Mac OS 10.6.7 with Google Talk Plugin v2.0.4.2108 
and Flash 10.1.102.64, if you do the following

1.  Login to BigBlueButton 0.71a
2.  Share video 

You have three options

   Google Camera Adaptor 0
   Google Camera Adaptor 1
   Built-in iSight

and none will work.

On the same Mac, using Google Chrome, which has Flash built-in, the Flash 
version is 10.3.181.22 and when logging into BigBlueButton there are three 
options for sharing the webcam

   Google Camera Adaptor 0
   Google Camera Adaptor 1
   USB Video Class Video

BigBlueButton automatically selects the third option and it works.  

It appears that Safari does not automatically update the Flash version on Mac.  
I downloading the latest version of Flash from

   http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

and did a Flash version check again from within Safari.  It now read

  Mac 10.3.181.22

and tried sharing video again.  This time I saw the entry for "USB Video Class 
Video" and it worked.

Looks like about a year ago Apple stopped bundling updates to Adobe Flash 
Player in Mac OS updates
  http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9192699/Apple_dumps_Flash_from_Mac_OS_X

This means anyone using a Mac and has not manually updated their Flash will 
have Flash version 10.1 and has the conflict with Google Talk.

Recommend everyone using a Mac install the latest version of Adobe Flash.  If 
you are using FireFox or Chrome, they have built-in auto-updating mechanisms 
for Flash.  It's only Safari that, due to Apple's decision, does not auto 
update Flash.

As of Flash 10.3, Adobe added auto updating to Flash itself when running on the 
Mac.

   http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/05/13/adobe_flash_10_3_adds_auto_update_notification_for_apples_mac_os_x.html

So users should receive notification of future versions of Flash when running 
Safari on the Mac.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ffdixon@gmail.com on 8 Jun 2011 at 11:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Need to retest this

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2012 at 6:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Still need to retest this.

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2013 at 3:11