Flash - recording from user's webcam

Question

I've seen a few sites that have a flash app which takes video from the users webcam and manipulates it. One example is the flash barcode reader http://www.renaun.com/flex2/BarcodeReader/BarcodeReader.html .

I want users to be able to submit 10-15 second clips which I can save to my server and then play back later via flash again.

Can you link to some example projects for this, or tell me what sections of which manuals I should be looking at?

Answer 1

There are several articles with sample code for this on adobes site. I would recommend you to go through this tutorial as it will guide you through all the necessary steps along with sample code:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/webcam_motion.html

Answer 2

What you need is Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3 . Just download it and take a look at "sample_guestbook" sample application.

Answer 3

Try the Red5 RTMP server (Java) and Red5-Recorder for recording and playback. Demo here: http://www.red5-recorder.com/demo.php

(Both free)

Answer 4

If you don't want to go into complex Flash/FMS programming, you can check the Nimbb API which allows 30 seconds video recording for free. Take a look at the tutorials to see what you can do with it.