Well this is not so common, you normally get worried about the performance of the flash player using the Bitmap API or the creationComplete event or any other part of the flash player tha could be CPU intensive and even nowadays with the all new flash sound native API….
But what about webcams, I know the guys at adobe have hundreds of bugs to resolve but now I really have to say that it would be great to have an API to select webcam’s preferences such as video or photo modes.
Why is so important?, because you might want to try to route the current camera’s vision to some computer actions, for example we are using the Flash Platform to create a robot driven by flash that needed the camera and its speed.
I realized that webcams (I’m not an expert in the topic) have two modes; photo, that has a frames per second rate higher than video mode. For the first case we get around 30 fps and with the second case we get around 10 fps sou you see, we lose almost all its reliability.
When you use your webcam’s program you normally notice that sometimes it looks fast and sometimes it looks slow due to these modes. So what about it? well the Flash Player gets the slower mode, I believe because it was specified as video and it also spends less bandwidth when transmited via server just like FMS (Flash Media Server) but in our case we need the camera’s maximum speed so it can “scan” the position of stepper motors, if they are really in the position we told them to.
So features I’d love would be: set the webcam’s mode video or photo in order to have more accuracy when needed.
Cheers!
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