webcamstudio camera not listed as available camera in chrome or chromium

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. run webcamstudio
2. run chrome (or chromium)
3. Go to: http://www.testwebcam.com

What is the expected output?
Flash player permission dialog will appear asking to proceed with loading the 
camera (which in this use case should be the "virtual" webcamstudio camera.

What do you see instead?
webcamstudio camera is not among the cameras listed in chrome's available 
cameras dropdown

The Operating system you are using (Linux, Windows etc)?
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

What version of WebcamStudio are you using?
0.71

What version of Java are you using?
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_72-b14)

What is your Webcamera vendor, model and version?
Logitech 9000 

For *nix users please enter the output from "sudo lsusb"?

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:0990 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 9000
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 046d:0809 Logitech, Inc. Webcam Pro 9000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 046d:c318 Logitech, Inc. Illuminated Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0763:2012 Midiman M-Audio Fast Track Pro
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0424:2514 Standard Microsystems Corp. USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04f2:b15e Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0424:2514 Standard Microsystems Corp. USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0007 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS451 Fingerprint 
Reader
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:231d Hewlett-Packard 4 GB Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alexande...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2014 at 5:19

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Hi Alexander,
 I'm sorry but at the moment I am the only person who can try to debug this issues, and also the only maintainer of WS. 
Anyway I hope that someone can give WS project an hand :)
Back to us this issue was solved by Kevin Branham in the community.
About the permission issue, I can't reproduce the issue on my Ubuntu 14.04 
64bit machine, but I got it on my UbuntuStudio 14.10 x86. 
Seems more a Chrome issue than WS ... anyway I will try to debug this.
Will let you know.
Thanks.

karl

Original comment by soylent...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2014 at 4:30

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I'll handle this one.

Original comment by soylent...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2014 at 4:30

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Hi Alexander,
 this is what i try, and finally, got it working.

This first steps may not be necessary:
- Adding my user to "video" group --> Result: no permissions
- Installing diff packages to my working Ubuntu 64bit:
phyton3-requests
python3-urllib3 --> Result: no permissions
- Installing diff packages to my working Ubuntu 64bit:
nginx-core --> Result: no permissions
- Setting Java Permissions in control panel --> Result: no permissions

I saw that http://www.testmycam.net/ works.
Because https://jitsi.org is on a secure connection i tough that the problem 
was on port 443 ... but in google hangout (https connection) the virtual device 
works ok.

After this I uninstall Chrome Version 38.0.2125.111 and I install the deb they 
propose on the chrome site (version 33.0.1750.146).

Running Chrome give me a warning message, but now https://jitsi.org works.

Really don't know why this occurs.
Will try now to re-update chrome to the latest, and see what happen ...
karl.

Original comment by soylent...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2014 at 7:47

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Reinstalling Chrome latest version, the problem is back on my UbuntuStudio 
machine.
Maybe https://jitsi.org/ support can understand the problem.
I also tried with the virtual webcam feeded by gstreamer in a command line, 
without WebcamStudio, and the problem persists ... Contact v4l2loopback team is 
another possible help.
karl

Original comment by soylent...@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2014 at 5:33

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More tests ...
On my UbuntuStudio 14.04 x64 machine after giving the permissions, 
https://jitsi.org works correctly with the webcamstudio (v4l2loopback) SkyCam 
module, so I can reproduce the problem only on my UbuntuStudio x86 machine.
The only workaround i found is to uninstall completely chrome current version 
38.0.2125.122 in this way (This will delete all bookmarks and settings on 
chrome):

Delete /home/user/.config/google-chrome and .config/chromium if you have it.

Purge the packages with:

$ sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable
$ sudo apt-get purge chromium-browser

And then installing the Chrome version 33.0.1750.146 that if you cannot find i 
will upload here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxkZ_wh6t7jbelBST3ZSU0FzQW8/view?usp=sharing
Don't know why I get this version when I first download it from the Chrome 
official page (yesterday ...) ...the successive downloads from the same 
official chrome page give me the latest 38 version ...
No i can't find it anywhere at the first searches ...
karl

Original comment by soylent...@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2014 at 7:59

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Karl,
Thank you for all of these excellent responses!
I will try everything you have advised here right now and let you know what I 
find.
Best,
Alex

Original comment by jan...@lizardsun.com on 12 Nov 2014 at 8:06

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By installing the version of Chrome you staged on your Google Drive, (and also 
by removing chromium), I am happy to report that WCS is now working 100% 
perfectly with Jitsi Meet. Thank you so much Karl!
-Alex

Original comment by alexande...@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2014 at 8:34

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You welcome Alex,
 it would be good to understand why this version works ... Seems that
Chrome latest works well only on my 64bit machines. I also try Chrome beta
and unstable latest version on my x86 machine without results ...
Have a good day.
karl

2014-11-12 21:35 GMT+01:00 <webcamstudio@googlecode.com>:

Original comment by soylent...@gmail.com on 13 Nov 2014 at 5:31