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Video Recording with webcam on a webpage [closed]

I have a requirement of recording video via web cam, on my webpage. What are the available plugins for the same. My website is developed using Ruby on Rails framework

Regards, Pankaj

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Pankaj Avatar asked Aug 08 '11 06:08

Pankaj


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2 Answers

If an HTML5 solution could be suitable for you, you can take a look to WebRTC (currently supported in Chrome, Firefox and Opera).

You can find a good tutorial here: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/

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Emyl Avatar answered Nov 03 '22 00:11

Emyl


The first hit on searching "webcam plugin": http://www.xarg.org/project/jquery-webcam-plugin/ As it is using JavaScript it is easy to include in Rails.

Many others appear in the results ...

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arnep Avatar answered Nov 02 '22 23:11

arnep