Capuring audio video and storing and live stream

[kunaljain18n]

Hi All,

I am a newbie to the adobe world of products. I am a java application
developer. The requirement has brought me to this world. :)
My requirement is to capture video and audio from my webcam and mike. Then at
a later stage i want to put that into a webpage or a presentation. I may also
want to live stream it to a webpage or in a demo. How can this be done using
flash. I have seen lots of people doing this stuff but as i am new to these
technologies i need help.
Can anyone give me some pointers on this or a direction on how this will be
done, with some example. Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Kunal

[Bentley Wolfe -ADOBE]

Kunal,

The product you'd use for this is actually the Flash Media Server. Flash by itself has no ability to record the streams (but FMS does).

[url]http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/[/url]

[kunaljain18n]

Hi Bentley ,

Do i exactly neet a media server ? When i see any flash player on any website
and in the settings of it, i see the options of webcam and mick there, which
seems to me that the flash is itself capable of reading the stream and its the
job of some action scripts at the back hand to take care of.
Please guide me if i am on the right path.

Thanks
Kunal

[kunaljain18n]

Can you also have a look at this url
[url]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/webcam_motion.html[/url]

this say to download Macromedia Flash 8 Professional but the try link takes to
a creative suit download which is not currently available, creating more
confusions...

Please guide me on this stuff...

Thanks
Kunal

[Bentley Wolfe -ADOBE]

Flash Player can display the video stream, and it can capture audio. But it
has no way to store it, or to send it to a server (trust me). There's no way
in ActionScript to do it. That's why the Flash Media Server exists.

What you're reading about in that article is a slightly different thing. You
asked about storing audio & video. In the article the developer is using
ActionScript to make a 'snapshot' of a paritcular moment in the video stream,
and turning that into a single bitmap. It is possible to build a server-side
script that would then store the numeric info in that bitmapdata class. But
That's not anywhere near what you were asking about.

While I'm mentioning it, there is a new tool that works with the Media Server
for capturing live events:
[url]http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/flashmediaencoder/[/url]