Ask HN: Any alt. to recording video in a cross-browser way without using Flash?

Posted by BasilAwad on Thursday May 12, 2011 @09:36PM
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I want to record people in browser from their webcam. Am I stuck with Flash?

Details are appreciated for hack solutions.

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Re:Ask HN: Any alt. to recording video in a cross-browser wa... by r3n2o on Friday May 13, 2011 @10:56AM (#2544847)

Mozilla Rainbow is not a crossbrowser solution, only work in firefox but worth a try http://mozillalabs.com/rainbow/

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Re:Ask HN: Any alt. to recording video in a cross-browser wa... by brunchstorm on Thursday May 12, 2011 @10:47PM (#2543342)

You could create an NPAPI plugin. That would be annoying for you and users. You could use flash. Or you could wait for the HTML5 Device Capture API (or whatever it becomes... http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/). It doesn't look like it is happening anytime soon though.

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Re:Ask HN: Any alt. to recording video in a cross-browser wa... by BasilAwad on Friday May 13, 2011 @09:31AM (#2544524)

this is good to know, but why would it be annoying for my user if I do NPAPI?

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Re:Ask HN: Any alt. to recording video in a cross-browser wa... by jus101 on Thursday May 12, 2011 @10:45PM (#2543338)

Not yet, but check http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video-con...

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Re:Ask HN: Any alt. to recording video in a cross-browser wa... by BasilAwad on Friday May 13, 2011 @10:18AM (#2544692)

thanks

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Re:Ask HN: Any alt. to recording video in a cross-browser wa... by zbanks on Thursday May 12, 2011 @10:21PM (#2543275)

You might be able to do it with Java, but honestly that's even worse.

The hard part is that it is a security issue to record video from a webcam from a webpage. Flash lets you get around this.

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Re:Ask HN: Any alt. to recording video in a cross-browser wa... by BasilAwad on Thursday May 12, 2011 @10:41PM (#2543328)

Thanks, I'm going to resubmit the question in a different way because the new news feed is being flooded with pop tech news.

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Re:Ask HN: Any alt. to recording video in a cross-browser wa... by realgt on Friday May 13, 2011 @11:27AM (#2544949)

we struggled with the same desire to _not_ use flash, but were ultimately forced to. That said, you can still stream back the recorded video to iOS devices or other html5 clients using wowza

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