Is Flash the only option for browser-based video-conferencing?

Question

To display a P2P video chat / screen-share session in the browser are we limited only to Flash?

I think there are HTML5 solutions 'in the pipeline' but I've no idea of timescales. Do you know of any flash alternatives?

Answer 1

There is Silverlight solution: http://silverlightvideochat.codeplex.com/

Answer 2

its some custom plugins based on ActiveX or COM or etc, like this http://www.google.com/chat/video and also you could

or you could base it on Java Applet or try to find some pure JS implementation like this http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/04/making-javascript-video-player.html