What is the best (and easiest!) Way to record video from a webcam to a local file system - all from a browser? Ideally, the video will be recorded in HD, and then we can use ffmpeg later to convert it to the desired formats and sizes.
Here are some of the things we covered:
- Use Flash to stream to your local Red5 server. But we had problems with the quality of the video.
- Java applet using JMF (can we even write to the file system from the applet?). We heard that this may not be very effective. Can it handle HD?
- Create your own Firefox plugin. This will be very difficult?
Basically, the hardest part is that controls need to be embedded in the browser. All we need is a window where the webcam frame is displayed to the user, and then some Javascript hooks, so we can enter the start / stop buttons on the HTML page.
The computer is fully controlled (this is a kiosk) and we can do anything. We just need a solution that runs in the browser. Our current application runs in kiosk mode on Firefox, and webcam recording is just a part.
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