Auto Webcam Detection

[Baby Minion]

4.19.11 **UPDATE** Now on GitHub. Also, much better than before.

This project 'CameraDetection' does one thing; Find the first working Camera object in AS3.

This class looks at all of the available Cameras in the Camera.names list and tests them. Using a combination of fps and activity, each Camera is looked at until one is deemed usable.


It's pretty simple to use:

import ktu.media.CameraDetection;
import ktu.events.CameraDetectionEvent;

var cd:CameraDetection = new CameraDetection();
cd.addEventListener (CameraDetectionEvent.RESOLVE, onResolve);
cd.begin();

function onResolve (e:CameraEvent):void {
    switch (e.code) {
        case CameraDetectionEvent.SUCCESS:
            var myCamera:Camera = e.camera;
        break;
        case CameraDetectionEvent.NO_SUCCESS:
            // none of the camera's worked properly
        break;
        case CameraDetectionEvent.NO_PERMISSIONS:
            // the user denied permission
        break;
        case CameraDetectionEvent.NO_CAMERAS:
            // no camera's were found
        break;
    }
} 

[Baby Minion]

I've made an update to this class. It now has better detection, and faster detection on Mac laptops.

[Baby Minion]

I have made another update to this class.

Added better support for determining permissions.
Updated some logic.
Cleaned up code.
No magic values.

This is a great class folks

[Baby Minion]

UPDATED 2012.10.06

A lot has changed:

MediaPermissions object makes asking for permission easy as, well, adding an eventlistener to an object...

CameraChecker was a pleasant abstraction that simplified the CameraDetection code

check out the blog post

go to github to get it

[realMakc]

Thumbs up for updating 2 years old project!