# Webcam Help acivityLevel

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/webcam-help-acivitylevel/325874>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 9, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/webcam-help-acivitylevel/325874 "2011-11-09T18:55:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shamus\_O\_Connor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Shamus\_O\_Connor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Shamus_O_Connor)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/webcam-help-acivitylevel/325874/1 "2011-11-09T18:55:08Z")

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Hey basically I’m tyrying to compare the activity levels from two seperate webcamsa nd have it react based on which is higher. When I run this it traces the activityLevel as -1 which according to adobe means the video wasn’t attached. I am new and as far as I know I did attach the video. Please help. Thanks in advance.

import flash.events.Event;  
import flash.text.TextField;  
import flash.events.ActivityEvent;

fscommand(“fullscreen”, “true”);  
fscommand(“allowscale”, “false”);

var cam1:Camera = Camera.getCamera(“0”);  
var cam2:Camera = Camera.getCamera(“1”);  
var vid1:Video = new Video();  
var vid2:Video = new Video();  
var v1 = cam1.activityLevel  
var v2 = cam2.activityLevel

//\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*

vid1.attachCamera(cam1);  
container.addChild(vid1);

vid1.x = -150;  
vid1.y = -150;  
/_vid1.alpha = .5;_/

//\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*

vid2.attachCamera(cam2);  
container2.addChild(vid2);

vid2.x = -150;  
vid2.y = -150;  
/_vid2.alpha = .5;_/

//\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*

addEventListener(Event.ENTER\_FRAME, butt);  
function butt(e:Event){  
trace(“activityLevel=” + container.activityLevel);  
trace(“v1=” + v1);  
}

addEventListener(Event.ENTER\_FRAME, butt1);  
function butt1(e:Event){

```
    trace("cam2 ="+cam2.activityLevel);

```

}