getUserMedia() shim for PhoneGap/Cordova?

Question

I have created a web app with Cordova and I need to show a live camera stream in my background. It seems that the Camera/Videos APIs from Cordova just open the native Camera/Video apps instead of returning live camera data. What I really need is something like getUserMedia() which is only available on Opera and Chrome (June 2012).

Is there a shim to use getUserMedia() within Cordova or any Plugins which behave similarly?

Answer 1

There's a plugin for capturing the camera stream, It uses AVCaptureVideoDataOutput to create a capture session. Each frame is base64 encoded and passed to the Cordova UIWebView. Its experimental and is slower than any native approach.