Nook Schreier
05-20-2006, 03:47 PM
I've been playing around with Flash for a few months now and I decided to see if I could figure out how get it to display video from a webcam. I was surprised how easy it was: just two lines of code and one object (http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=BF6D4). Well, I figured if they made it that easy to do, there must be all kinds of stuff you can do with it... like... uh... what?
So that's my question. Does anyone have any ideas how this could be useful? The obvious first thought was video chat, but that requires Macromedia Communication Server, and apparently there's no other way to transmit the video to another Flash client. The only interesting camera options in the code seem to be onActivity, but I don't know what to do with that besides a motion sensor. Not real useful. Any thoughts or suggestions? If you have a camera, you can _see it in action_(link removed). If anyone's interested, you can download the MX Pro 2004 project there too.
So that's my question. Does anyone have any ideas how this could be useful? The obvious first thought was video chat, but that requires Macromedia Communication Server, and apparently there's no other way to transmit the video to another Flash client. The only interesting camera options in the code seem to be onActivity, but I don't know what to do with that besides a motion sensor. Not real useful. Any thoughts or suggestions? If you have a camera, you can _see it in action_(link removed). If anyone's interested, you can download the MX Pro 2004 project there too.