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How can I use the Flame camera as a PC webcam?

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Airon90
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Hi, I've got an old PC with Arch Linux and LXDE installed. I also own a Flame device with latest version of Firefox OS Nightly.

I don't own a webcam on my PC to use with such programs as Firefox Loop (I've installed mozilla-nightly from AUR), appear.in, Skype (brrr...) and so on.

I link my Flame on my PC but only SD card and internal memory are recognized by default. How can I recognize the camera too in order to use it with my PC?

Thank you!

Hi, I've got an old PC with Arch Linux and LXDE installed. I also own a Flame device with latest version of Firefox OS Nightly. I don't own a webcam on my PC to use with such programs as Firefox Loop (I've installed mozilla-nightly from AUR), appear.in, Skype (brrr...) and so on. I link my Flame on my PC but only SD card and internal memory are recognized by default. How can I recognize the camera too in order to use it with my PC? Thank you!

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guigs
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Hi Airon90, Unfortunately there currently is no software that can optimize Firefox OS as a webcam. There is a Camera API that can be used to develop one however if you are interested. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/A.../Your_first_app

Airon90
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Even if I'm not a coder, I don't think that the answer is an app but to work on a inner layer, in order to make this working out-of-the-box. I need that Linux, Windows, Mac and so on recognize the Firefox OS camera when I link it to the PC, not to stream remotely, like Android does (e.g. via Droidcam, IP Webcam or IP Camera Adapter). Am I asking something useful that will make Firefox OS a better OS than Android or am I asking something useless or unrealizable and the only way to do is to create an app or to port other listed above? Thank you