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by Nick Lothian.
Original Post: Using a webcam with HTML 5 via VLC
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HTML 5 includes the <video> tag to enable embedding of video.
Unfortunately, and unlike Flash, there is no way to directly use a webcam with it. However, if you want to experiment with it some VLC+Apache magic can help.
Firstly, you need to setup VLC to do HTTP streaming. These instructions are for windows, but it works [...]
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