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Where can I record a video online?

How can I record video online with jQuery or in some way other than using Flash?

  • I am trying to figure out how I can have users record themselves with their webcam on my site. How can I do this?

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    Javascript would require hardware access to the webcam. That's not possible nowadays. Javascript has pretty limited powers within the browser.

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You're going to have to wait a few years for the <device> element of the HTML5 spec to mature: http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-device/ Someone has however found a way to do it with <video>, but it requires you to jump through some hoops: http://nicklothian.com/blog/2009/11/17/using-a-webcam-with-html-5-via-vlc/

Andrew Rabon

Yes you could use this ,not directly with html compionents as even html 5 dont have camera support , but if u have hidden flash application which have some javascript methods which start and stop camera recording so with help of jquery u could call them and make ur applicaiton complete but it would be totaly base on flash even its hidden. its more like uploading multiple files only flash provide this stuff html only allows one. You may google how to braodcast/record with flash ,it would require some RTMP server for this

Sajid Hussain

There's no way to do video recording without a plugin (Flash). You can however use JavaScript to interact with a recording technology.  For example, our Nimbb player can be controled with JS code. If that's what you need, you can look at our service: http://nimbb.com

Benjamin Berube

Right now there's no reasonable way to do it other than with Flash. Anything else is shaky, at best.

Burak Kanber

We're very close but nobody is currently recording HTML5 streams. We here at http://CameraTag.com are working on a WebRTC. In the mean time you can check out our flash recorder with an HTML5 interface.

Chris Danzig

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