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by Nick Lothian.
Original Post: Using Flash to shim a webcam to Canvas
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A couple of weeks ago I posted my work on developing virtual keypad using HTML5 video. That worked surprisingly well, but had some unfortunate requirements in that HTML5 doesn’t really support access to webcams.
Flash Does.
I’ve developed a Flash shim, which gets access to your webcam, and copies frames to data urls which can be used [...]