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Is it possible for AS3 to record a video with a webcam and save it to a local disk/to a network server?

Zainu
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  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1973002/save-video-captured-from-webcam-using-flash – alxx Jun 20 '11 at 07:31

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You can use an Air app called AirCam to achieve this. It uses the BitmapData class to generate a FLV file. If you want to build it yourself they also include the the source code on the site. There class does not support sound though.

The purpose of this revolutionary new class is to record a stream of BitmapData to a FLV-file, because writing directly, and especially the converting-BitmapData-to-ByteArrays-with-byteshifting-part, made everything run shaky. I solved that issue by saving the BitmapData to a temporary file on the system. This to protect your RAM from overloading, and when done recording, the class converts that temporary file to an FLV-file.

http://www.joristimmerman.be/wordpress/2008/12/18/flvrecorder-record-to-flv-using-air/

Mattias
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  • Hello, AirCam does not support sound? How do you solved the shaky issue by saving it to a temp file on system? – Zainu Jun 21 '11 at 02:57
  • I tested with recording a 30seconds clip and my computer hangs >_ – Zainu Jun 21 '11 at 03:30
  • AirCam was just an example on how you can write a class that saves webcam data to flv. And as I wrote in my answer, it does NOT support audio recording. – Mattias Jun 21 '11 at 15:33