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javascriptjquerycamera
Tales
Tales

Reputation: 1923

Control my computer camera with javascript?

Is there a way to control the computer camera (activate) using javascript (preferably jQuery)?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1184

Answers (2)

Fresheyeball
Fresheyeball

Reputation: 30015

Browser api's for cameras are basically unsupported. Unfortunately you will have to use flash to do that in any kind of cross browser compatible way. But fret not, there is jQuery pluggin that uses a simple flash object to expose the camera to javascript.

http://www.xarg.org/project/jquery-webcam-plugin/

Upvotes: 1

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 944256

You would need to use the getUserMedia API.

Browser support is, at the time of writing, limited to Opera 12.

Your other options would involve using something like Flash, which has access to webcams, to write a JavaScript bridge.

Upvotes: 4

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