Re: Webcam in browser

From:

Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:18:12 -0700

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Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:

Been trawling the net looking for applets that will put images from my
USB webcam on a website. Both streaming and static image. Any
suggestions for:

a) Freebies
b) Pay stuff
c) Pointers to DIY

Again, the aim is to make this totally accessible to the viewer ie no
downloading and installing progs (assuming their JRE is up to date)

I've got a Java application that uses JMF to grab an image from a
camera. I'm using the Windows command line ftp client to send the data
to my website. You didn't specify if you were using Windows or Linux.
I have not tested it on Linux for a couple of reasons, one I was never
able to get JMF to work with Linux, and two, I didn't have Linux camera
drivers.

You are welcome to the source to my application, just send me an email.
The code is several years old and you may have to fiddle with it to
get it to work with your camera.

As to JMF, Sun has not updated JMF in many years. Version 7 is supposed
to have replacements for some of JMF's features. Unfortunately, the
release of version 7 has been pushed out again to early 2010. In the
last article I saw, there was no mention of the media enhancements to
version 7.

http://hamletdarcy.blogspot.com/2008/12/java-7-update-from-mark-reinhold-at.html

So I don't know if they are still in there or not. This is a
significant shortcoming of Java but I'm not sure that it will be
corrected any time soon.

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