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Multiple Webcam Support?

Hi all, I've not actually tried out the software yet, as I'm shopping around for a solution. and I have a question about Roll20. My regular gaming group is about to lose a member to another state, but we want to keep her gaming with us remotely, so I'm looking for solutions. Does Roll 20 offer support for multiple webcams? IE, can I hook 4 up to the local machine and point one at each player at my table, so that she can see each of us, or does each player need their own machine/cam setup to work this? Thanks!
Each needs their own.
Our group is split into two locations.  What we do is have a laptop in one place set far enough away so that everyone at the table can be seen.  The other location only has two people so a single webcam hooked up to their desktop works.  Sadly, this does require someone to be without a laptop or to have a spare device.  It works even better if you can hook the laptop up to a TV, though.
Hmm. Would it then conceivably be possible, since Roll20 is browser based, to run multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE, etc) in the background, along with a utility to handle multiple webcams, and roll that way? I could have a device dedicated to handling that, and second dedicated to handling the map, etc...
This is similar to the situation I am trying to sort out. We play around a table in the UK and have one player in Australia (and doesn't that make scheduling fun). We're experimenting with playing using Google Hangouts and I'm logging in from two machines so that I run the game on my laptop and also log in with my PC and set the webcam to show the table. This seems to work fine, though we haven't actually done it while playing yet. The improvement I'm trying to work out is whether I can also show Roll20 on the main PCs screen (32" HDTV at the end of table, which I otherwise use for showing maps and things) without one player's information being there for all to see. Is it possible, say, to introduce an "empty" player which just acts as a placeholder so that communal information can be viewed on that screen?