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Asked: 2026-05-23T19:36:35+00:00

I have a situation where I have to a have a few different sized

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I have a situation where I have to a have a few different sized “cameras” to send over a netstream depending on if its a desktop or mobile connected. Here’s how I have it setup:

protected var nearCam:Camera;
protected var nearCamForMobile:Camera;

nearCam = Camera.getCamera();
nearCam.setMode(385,240,10);
nearCam.setQuality(0,0);
//this is the cam I want to display on the near Side to show the user themselves.
near_video.attachCamera(nearCam);


//If a mobile user connects, I want to send them this resolution/aspect ratio of a camera so i'm just setting up this Camera but not showing it anywhere.         
nearCamForMobile = Camera.getCamera();
nearCamForMobile.setMode(480,800,10);
nearCamForMobile.setQuality(0,0);

So when a mobile user connected I’d just swap the camera that’s attached to the netstream to the mobile one so it looks good on their phone and not all stretched.

if(isFarMobile)
{
    sendStream.attachCamera(nearCamForMobile);
}
else
{
    sendStream.attachCamera(nearCam);
}

Now on to my problem….

If i do JUST the nearCamForMobile and send that to the mobile versaion it looks great on the phone and it’s not stretched. but then obviously its 480×800 resolution looks stretched on the desktop version which is a 385×240 video box. So if i do just the nearCam it looks great on the desktop but then it looks stretched on the mobile….

So what im curious is why Cant I do both vars the way I showed above, display the nearCam, and then have the nearCamForMobile waiting to be sent when i need it to?

Can you only have one camera mode setup at a time? Any ideas how I could do this? On the mobile version its setup so the user is holding the phone in potrait and its 840×480. The desktop site looks best when its like a widescreen video.

In the end I’m basically trying to figure out how to have 2 camera vars with 2 resolutions. Display 1 on the near side and attach the other to the netstream in a situation where the far is a mobile client. (I know how to figure out if the far is mobile, im not worried about that part)

I just need to be able to transmit a resolution/aspect ratio that looks good for a mobile client. which happens to be in a different aspect ratio than the desktop cleint.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Can’t be done. Check out this line specifically from the docs :

    “Multiple calls to the getCamera() method reference the same camera
    driver. Thus, if your code contains code like firstCam:Camera =
    getCamera() and secondCam:Camera = getCamera(), both firstCam and
    secondCam reference the same camera, which is the user’s default
    camera.”

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/media/Camera.html#getCamera()

    So in other words, as soon as you get one, any subsequent get attempts will just be creating another pointer to the same object. Thus, you have two variables with a pointer to the same object. Setting a property on that pointer sets it to both.

    Make sense?

    Sorry for the bad news :\

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