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

• zbanks 15y ago
  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.
  • BasilAwad 15y ago
    Thanks, I'm going to resubmit the question in a different way because the new news feed is being flooded with pop tech news.
• jus101 15y ago
  Not yet, but check http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video-conferencing-and-peer-to-peer-communication http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video-con...
  • BasilAwad 15y ago
    thanks
• brunchstorm 15y ago
  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/ http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/). It doesn't look like it is happening anytime soon though.
  • BasilAwad 15y ago
    this is good to know, but why would it be annoying for my user if I do NPAPI?
• r3n2o 15y ago
  Mozilla Rainbow is not a crossbrowser solution, only work in firefox but worth a try http://mozillalabs.com/rainbow/ http://mozillalabs.com/rainbow/
• realgt 15y ago
  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