Webcams in HTML5 without Flash or Silverlight

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John Mitchell picture John Mitchell · Dec 10, 2011 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

So now Adobe has pulled the plug on Mobile Flash and are pushing more for HTML5, and Silverlight has pulled the plug too, what's next for interactive video content.

So if they die out (as they are currently trying to do) how do we access web cams (or even phone cams) on websites. The HTML5 Media Capture looks like it doesn't support streams only Files, so that could be out, is there any alternatives at the moment, or in the near future?

Answer

aWebDeveloper picture aWebDeveloper · Dec 10, 2011

look at the following links. Although support may be poor

Media capturing api http://www.w3.org/TR/media-capture-api/

Device tag https://labs.ericsson.com/developer-community/blog/beyond-html5-implementing-device-and-stream-management-webkit

Webcam Capturing http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2011/03/23/webcam-orientation-preview

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