Recording Audio via the Web for an Intranet Solution

Question

What is the best (cheapest, most open) way to record audio via a web page. Then keep that recording as MP3 format and make it available via a unique ID / URL.

I guess Flash-based plug-in would be best. I'm thinking of something that works like Odeo, but this would be for Intranet-only usage. I can't rely and public URLs or Services.

I'm looking for something I can cobble together from existing components (Open Source) projects.

Answer 1

You need a service server side to record audio, this could be hosted on one of you network's machines (unless you are doing it via AIR locally for each computer).

FMS by Adobe provides the option for recording and playing streams.

But first thing, you should have a look on Red5, which is an alternative free service :

http://www.red5.org/

There are samples on their website and you can find some on google as well. here is one :

http://fms.denniehoopingarner.com/

Here's a quick tutorial about recording locally with AIR:

http://seeing-is-believing.blogspot.com/2008/05/capture-and-write-audio-stream-with.html

Answer 2

Here's a tutorial on using the microphone in Flash:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/microphone.htm

Documentation the Flash Microphone object:

http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary479.html