Comments on: Webcam Digital Video Recorder for Apollo

By: philip

philip — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:39:12 +0000

is it possible to modify this to save files locally on the hard drive for preview and upload to a amazon S3?

By: Shaun O'Reill

Shaun O'Reill — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:10:36 +0000

Hi,

I am planning on developing a good web recording package, nad will release the code for free, if I can get some help in terms of source code.

I will develop an air as well as a flex version.

Streaming servers are out of the question for this project.

Please help, Lee.

Shaun

By: admin

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:14:40 +0000

Brent, I plan on updating it for beta 3 soon (hopefully this week).

Thanks,
Lee

By: Brent Rosenquist

Brent Rosenquist — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:16:54 +0000

Is there an updated version of this app for the Beta 3 version of the air runtime?

By: Jonathan Marecki

Jonathan Marecki — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:05:38 +0000

Lee, Love the AIR App. this is great for a project I will be starting soon. One question, when I convert a file to flv, I can’t get it to play. Any Suggestions on that.

Thanks
Jon

By: Sanford Redlich

Sanford Redlich — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:33:51 +0000

Lee, I removed AIR and both Flash debugger versions (for Netscape and IE) from my machine. I reinstalled AIR, then the IE Flash debugger version, then the Netscape non-debugger version, and your program worked with all of them. Maybe it’s an incompatibility with the Netscape Flash debugger version? The world may never know. But your software, great as usual, works for me now.

Many thanks for your community contributions,

Sanford

By: admin

admin — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:38:20 +0000

Sanford, thanks for letting me know the problem you’re experiencing isn’t from the app itself. Maybe you’ll have better luck if you uninstall AIR and Flash Player 9, and then reinstall? …

It’s funny, the first time I tried the ‘Settings’ dialog box using my current AIR beta runtime installation, the window was entitled ‘Security’ but was completely blank. When I closed the settings window and reopened it, everything looked normal, but there was no further reference to a ‘Security’ tab any more…

I makes me wonder if the problem you’re having is a beta-related bug.

Lee

By: Sanford Redlich

Sanford Redlich — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:10:46 +0000

Hmmm… Actually, I have the same problem in all AIR apps but I see nothing about it on the net. I reinstalled AIR and still have the same issue. In normal Flash, no problems, but in AIR the “privacy control” simply doesn’t work. Does it work for you? Best, -S

By: Sanford Redlich

Sanford Redlich — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:10:47 +0000

Thanks, Lee. I’m still having the same problem. I can show Flash video from other sources no problem and BubbleGuru.com works fine for me (recording to FMS then playing back). What I notice is that in settings I set the “allow/deny camera access” to “allow”, close it, reopen and it’s back to “deny”. Same with the setting for allowed storage, it starts at 0 and remains there when I reopen the control. Strange… I’ve got the latest Flash release, the latest AIR release, and I’m on WinXP using a Logitech UltraVision webcam. Not that I’m looking for you to debug, it’s just in case you’re interested.

Many thanks for the source code for FLVWriter. Do you think adding sound will be difficult?

Best,

Sanford

By: admin

admin — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:35:45 +0000

Ach! Sorry, Sanford. One theory that comes to mind - which I really hope is the right one - is that your Flash Player settings have a different video device set as the default other than the webcam. For example, on my media PC, I have a Firewire connection coming from my cable box STB, and the Flash Player had the STB set as the default “camera” even though it’s obviously not a webcam, causing any Flash using video-input to fail.

By the way, I just posted the FLV writer class source yesterday here: http://www.zeropointnine.com/blog/simpleflvwriteras-as3-class-to-create-flvs

Thanks,
Lee