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This is great. Does anyone know if it's possible to record video using HTML5? I'm looking for a drop in component that will let a person easily record a video f

by fleitz 16y ago

This is great. Does anyone know if it's possible to record video using HTML5? I'm looking for a drop in component that will let a person easily record a video from their webcam and am trying to avoid flash.

mikaelgramont 16y ago
Does not exist yet. There's no final spec for this, and Opera just started experimenting with it. http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2011/03/23/webcam-orientation-preview http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2011/03/23/webcam-orientation-...
bkrausz 16y ago
We had to look into this: the only way to do it in a cross-browser/OS way is to use Flash. Fortunately, it's fairly simple to write a bare-bones Flash app that just creates JS hooks for all webcam functions (though the permission dialog and any video preview still needs to be in the Flash window).
- fleitz 16y ago
  Awesome, I'll have to look into that, are you grabbing video or just images?
  - bkrausz 16y ago
    We stream video: you can use a Flash media server (costs a lot of money), Wowza media server (costs less money), or red5 (open source) to stream. For images you can actually extract a bitmap from a frame of the video, which I imagine you can pass to JS and reassemble in canvas.
    - andrewacove 16y ago
      Is there any good documentation for setting up red5? My first attempt was a nightmare.
      - bkrausz 16y ago
        We just used Wowza, since they had an EC2 instance you could just boot up at a higher cost than a regular EC2 instance. The documentation is ok, not amazing, but getting it running is pretty trivial thanks to their examples.
      - chopsueyar 16y ago
        You can use a developer's version of Wowza (the big limit is iPhone streaming is crippled). A single license is like $1000, but you can instead pay by month ($60, IIRC). Wowza also has a deal with Amazon, so you can run Wowza on EC2 and only pay by the hour (Wowza licensing included).
- chopsueyar 16y ago
  Have you been able to use Wowza with HTML5 using a livestream, not VOD?

by fleitz 16y ago

mikaelgramont 16y ago

Does not exist yet. There's no final spec for this, and Opera just started experimenting with it. http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2011/03/23/webcam-orientation-preview http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2011/03/23/webcam-orientation-...

bkrausz 16y ago

We had to look into this: the only way to do it in a cross-browser/OS way is to use Flash. Fortunately, it's fairly simple to write a bare-bones Flash app that just creates JS hooks for all webcam functions (though the permission dialog and any video preview still needs to be in the Flash window).

fleitz 16y ago
Awesome, I'll have to look into that, are you grabbing video or just images?
- bkrausz 16y ago
  We stream video: you can use a Flash media server (costs a lot of money), Wowza media server (costs less money), or red5 (open source) to stream. For images you can actually extract a bitmap from a frame of the video, which I imagine you can pass to JS and reassemble in canvas.
  - andrewacove 16y ago
    Is there any good documentation for setting up red5? My first attempt was a nightmare.
    - bkrausz 16y ago
      We just used Wowza, since they had an EC2 instance you could just boot up at a higher cost than a regular EC2 instance. The documentation is ok, not amazing, but getting it running is pretty trivial thanks to their examples.
    - chopsueyar 16y ago
      You can use a developer's version of Wowza (the big limit is iPhone streaming is crippled). A single license is like $1000, but you can instead pay by month ($60, IIRC). Wowza also has a deal with Amazon, so you can run Wowza on EC2 and only pay by the hour (Wowza licensing included).
chopsueyar 16y ago
Have you been able to use Wowza with HTML5 using a livestream, not VOD?