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iSight camera and Chatroulette

Hi!

I've been having some problems with Flash because my iSight camera doesn't seem to work on Chatroulette.

First of all it should be noted that I read every other thread about the topic and I tried everything suggested: I installed the Beta, checked and erased plug-ins, erased the Safari cache, reinstalled flash, updated my mac, etc. Nothing seems to work.

Also, the iSight does work with Photo Booth, iMovie and so on and it even works with other flash sites like Chatroulette but it doesn't work on Chatroulette.com itself. The website recognizes the webcam (in the panel it is written iSight Camera in the scroll menu, and it's the only camera listed) but I can't send the images and I can't even see the preview in my window.
It has always worked but one day (I don't know why, maybe I changed something by mistake) it just stopped. I could've changed the settings by mistake by putting DENY use of webcam instead of ALLOW in the Flash Menu so I checked all the Flash settings in the global privacy settings panel.

On the panel I changed the setting to "Always Ask" but now when I go to Chatroulette it doesn't work and if I right-click and check the settings the default setting is always "DENY", even if I change it in the panel. I tried many times and everytime I go to Chatroulette default setting is always DENY and if I change it to allow it doesn't work. If I refresh the page the setting is back to "DENY".
Regardless of what I put in the panel settings, I can never get my iSight to work on Chatroulette. As of now, I put on the panel "Always Ask" and when I go to Chatroulette.com and right-click it still has "DENY" checked. If I click "start" and start chatting, the flash window asking me if I allow or deny the use of the camera appears, but if I click ALLOW it doesn't change anything whatsoever.

I don't really know what to do anymore.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jan 11, 2011 1:03 PM

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Jan 18, 2011 10:20 PM in response to plainoldisak

Funny enough i have the same error with Ustream, everything used to work but now it shows "Isight" in the list but it doesnt work. If i right click on the video box and manually try to allow camera in the flash settings ,and i click the webcam picture the camera turns on, but immediately turns off after i close it out. My isight works in photobooth, and i also tried it with Mailvu.com and it seemed to work there. This doesnt work with Safari, Firefox, or Chrome, On Ustream. Not sure what the error is.

Jan 20, 2011 12:39 PM in response to plainoldisak

I am having the same problem on UStream. It detects my iSight camera, but does not send a signal to turn it on when I am ready to broadcast. When I secondary-click in the gray box where the video signal should be, open up the settings window, and click on the camera settings, when I click the camera icon it does turn my iSight camera on. But as soon as I close the settings window, my camera turns off. The microphone seems to work, just not the iSight camera.

Any suggestions?

Message was edited by: cwang1184

iSight camera and Chatroulette

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