A brand spanking new flash bug! :) mainly for FCS developers

This problem can be reproduced by putting two avpresences on the stage with a simple connect, connecting up with two different computers, publishing with both then stop publishing and swap avpresences. The loopback from the camera will stop working but it will still publish properly. In other words you won't be able to see yourself anymore. I cannot get this to happen with the flash 6 player/plugin though. Only flash player/plugin 7. It's not just the avpresences that do this, all video objects do it. So if you have your own version of the avpresence it'll stop working properly (but only on the flash player/plugin 7).

read on for the fix/workaround

What I think is happening here is the video object is not able to reinitialize itself to accept the camera object again. Reinitializing the camera didn't work so what I did to get my apps to work in 6 or 7, was to place a video object in a movieclip. Use linkage and attachMovie to get it on the stage when somebody is going to play or publish and attach the video to that.

It works, and you won't hear your clients saying to you that your apps are weird and buggy. Nobody wants to hear that. But it's a crappy thing that we have to get around another bug in flash. I have posted it to MM's site though, so hopefully we'll see some action soon.