Multiple Camera instances at different resolutions

programming flash
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Can you have multiple flash.media.Camera instances running at different resolutions? Take the following code for example:

[AS]_camSmall = Camera.getCamera();
_camSmall.setMode(320, 240, 30);
_videoSmall = new Video(_camSmall.width, _camSmall.height);
_videoSmall.attachCamera(_camSmall);
_videoSmall.x = 0;
_videoSmall.y = 0;
this.addChild(_videoSmall);

_camLarge = Camera.getCamera();
_camLarge.setMode(640, 480, 30);
_videoLarge = new Video(_camLarge.width, _camLarge.height);
_videoLarge.attachCamera(_camLarge);
_videoLarge.x = _camSmall.width;
_videoLarge.y = 0;
this.addChild(_videoLarge);[/AS]

Both video feeds are properly displayed, however both of them are displayed at 320x240 instead of the first at 320x240 and the second at 640x480 (note that if I change the first one to 640x480 then they both properly display at 640x480). The problem seems to be only if I try to run the two feeds at two different resolutions. Is this not possible?

2

Apparently, you can’t change the resolution of the video feed at all once you set initially. In the following code, I add a single video feed, and sometime later after this video feed is running, I take it all down, clean it up, change the resolution, and try to get everything up and running again:

[AS]_camSmall = Camera.getCamera();
_camSmall.setMode(320, 240, 30);
_videoSmall = new Video(_camSmall.width, _camSmall.height);
_videoSmall.attachCamera(_camSmall);
_videoSmall.x = 0;
_videoSmall.y = 0;
this.addChild(_videoSmall);

// Sometime later during code execution
this.removeChild(_videoSmall);
_videoSmall = null;
_camSmall = Camera.getCamera();
_camSmall.setMode(640, 480, 30);
_videoSmall = new Video(_camSmall.width, _camSmall.height);
_videoSmall.attachCamera(_camSmall);
_videoSmall.x = 0;
_videoSmall.y = 0;
this.addChild(_videoSmall);[/AS]

Although the feed does properly reappear, it’s at the resolution of the first feed. No change occurred! Lame…