On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:

Hey Larry,

See my comments below:

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Lisa,

I had looked at most of those references, but your link:
http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/issues/detail?id=785&q=tunneling&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Component%20Summary
to Issue 785 (and specifically comment 12) seems the most definitive answer. It also contains a link to a purported workaround: http://sourceforge.net/p/rtmp2rtmpt/home/ which I cannot try as I am now at home (where the port is not blocked).

I can't get this R5U870 webcam to work right with Flash anyway. It works fine with Cheese, but ...

Do you have the right drivers?

http://www.arakhne.org/ricoh/index.html

Yes I do.
larry@lapdog2:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c506 Logitech, Inc. MX700 Cordless Mouse Receiver
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:1810 Ricoh Co., Ltd Pavilion Webcam [R5U870]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
larry@lapdog2:~$

Your reference has a link to https://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/src/881dbd07a263/docs/model_matrix.txt which shows that ru87x supports my webcam. The relevant line is:

0x05CA  0x1810  R5U870  UVC     HP Pavilion Webcam

And when I did install it I used the instructions at https://launchpad.net/~r5u87x-loader/+archive/ppa which also shows the same info. This is the first time the webcam has worked in ubuntu for several years. And as I said it does work in cheese but not for the Flash 10.2.159.1 I am using (Flash required by BigBlueButton). Oh, and the Flash player settings shows it sees the webcam as "UVC Camera (05CA:1810) (V4L2)".

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