HTML 5 streaming webcam video?

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John picture John · Aug 7, 2011 · Viewed 14.3k times · Source

Is it currently possible to create a flash free live webcam chat with HTML5? If so, how can I go about doing this?

Answer

samccone picture samccone · Aug 8, 2011

no

It is in the html5 draft

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/video-conferencing-and-peer-to-peer-communication.html#obtaining-local-multimedia-content

here is a much deeper conversion about this issue

What's the status of the HTML 5 <video> tag and webcam integration?

and here is a solution that works using flash

http://code.google.com/p/jpegcam/

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