Reading and writing on webcam stream

Question

Is it possible to use java to write into a webcam stream? I've tried JMF and got it to capture the image but couldn't find a possibility to write into the stream.

Answer 1

I've never heard about the possibility of writing webcam stream in Java.

As I know, there are few technologies which can do this work:

1) Based on Adobe technologies: webcam -> Adobe FME -> Adobe FMS -> Flash / Flex app 2) OpenSource variant: webcam -> Flash app -> Red 5 Server -> Flash (Client) 3) microsoft also has technologies to work with webcam