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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.

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.