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Lion & flash video chat

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zachnelson

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I installed the GM seed and now I cannot video chat on places like omegle, chat roulette or tiny chat. The box that pops up to allow me to authorize access to my camera is unclickable. I keep clicking Allow and nothing happens.

I even re-installed Lion fresh and new and it doesn't work.

help?
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; fr-fr) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

Not sure why those wouldn't be working. Best guess is they won't recognize the new Safari?

The Google+ Hangout video chat works just fine for me.
 
Daiden said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; fr-fr) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

Not sure why those wouldn't be working. Best guess is they won't recognize the new Safari?

The Google+ Hangout video chat works just fine for me.
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Not just safari, chrome and firefox too :(
 
Same issue here. This is a dealbreaker, an incredibly ridiculous bug. Anyone have a fix?
 
Access your camera and mic settings for Flash in System Preferences and then manually allow the site access.


cadoo said:
Same issue here. This is a dealbreaker, an incredibly ridiculous bug. Anyone have a fix?
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No one is to blame. Not Apple for putting out Lion and Adobe because Flash 10.3 warns you that Flash Player is currently a beta for 10.7.
 
Sneakz said:
Access your camera and mic settings for Flash in System Preferences and then manually allow the site access.



No one is to blame. Not Apple for putting out Lion and Adobe because Flash 10.3 warns you that Flash Player is currently a beta for 10.7.
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Perhaps you would feel differently if you needed these functions to telecommute.
 
Patrick J said:
If they are necessary then you shouldn't install a pre-release operating system and use beta software. Common sense, no?
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I was told this developer release was what is being released to the public whenever Lion is officially released. Thus, my question.

Either way I have another computer not running Lion which works just fine. I was simply asking if anyone else had this issue. Release the tightness on your fanboy pants. :rolleyes:
 
zachnelson said:
I installed the GM seed and now I cannot video chat on places like omegle, chat roulette or tiny chat. The box that pops up to allow me to authorize access to my camera is unclickable. I keep clicking Allow and nothing happens.

I even re-installed Lion fresh and new and it doesn't work.

help?
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I have the same issue on 4 separate machines. Flash video chat doesn't work in any browser.
 
Hi!

I've had the very same problem with my Lion install, but figured out a workaround.
If you feel comfortable with having the cam activate itself right after you enter the chatroom/start the webpage, then this will help.

In Settings in OSX go to Flash Player -> Camera and Mic ->Camera and Mic Settings by Site and on the right side of the site you want to use your cam with choose "Allow". It has to be a site which you already visited, otherwise there won't be an option to enable the Cam and Mic access.
This will permanently enable the cam whenever you visit the site eg. Chatroulette.
Also notice, that when you go to a site such as Megavideo and choose whichever movie, put it into fullscreen (given of course, that you use the flash, not the h.264 version of the video) and right click, you can manipulate the flash setting of this particular site however you wish.

On a different note - this problem has been noticed in previous versions of Flash, and isn't specific to Lion or Mac OS whatsoever - it has also happened in PCs running Windows. Just wonder how many users who upgraded to Lion on this forum have experienced this issue - is it widespread or just present among a given group of people.

Cheers!

Here's to hoping
 
Just wanted to give you guys an update after installing a beta of Flash 11 - still the same issue, not going to help in any way.
 
windywalks said:
Hi!

I've had the very same problem with my Lion install, but figured out a workaround.
If you feel comfortable with having the cam activate itself right after you enter the chatroom/start the webpage, then this will help.

In Settings in OSX go to Flash Player -> Camera and Mic ->Camera and Mic Settings by Site and on the right side of the site you want to use your cam with choose "Allow". It has to be a site which you already visited, otherwise there won't be an option to enable the Cam and Mic access.
This will permanently enable the cam whenever you visit the site eg. Chatroulette.
Also notice, that when you go to a site such as Megavideo and choose whichever movie, put it into fullscreen (given of course, that you use the flash, not the h.264 version of the video) and right click, you can manipulate the flash setting of this particular site however you wish.

On a different note - this problem has been noticed in previous versions of Flash, and isn't specific to Lion or Mac OS whatsoever - it has also happened in PCs running Windows. Just wonder how many users who upgraded to Lion on this forum have experienced this issue - is it widespread or just present among a given group of people.

Cheers!

Here's to hoping
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i cant find the flash player under system preferences
 
I have the same problem, I updated my flash to the latest version (beta) and then the flash panel appeared in systems preferences.

Then I tried the "allow always" which worked for a while but doesn't anymore. Hope they fix this one soon.
 
Mr Gee said:
I have the same problem, I updated my flash to the latest version (beta) and then the flash panel appeared in systems preferences.

Then I tried the "allow always" which worked for a while but doesn't anymore. Hope they fix this one soon.
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Try deleting Browsing data and settings in the Advanced tab in your Flash Player Settings and repeating the whole enabling procedure.
 
I have the same problem. Flash based video chat worked ok in SL but failed with Lion with the same symptoms noted here. I'm not sure if it was due to Lion or due to the Flash update that was part of the Lion upgrade process. Many attempt to fix the problem failed. I reverted back to SL by simply restarting while holding the Option key down and then restoring from Time Machine
 
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