Thank you Glen and Henrik I am starting to appreciate that it is more complex than I thought to record audio and video to an online app. I did create an audio recorder in Flex Builder and Zinc about a year ago and that was really simple however that was for a desktop application so that must have made things a lot easier.
I think I will need to get back to my client to see if they are prepared to go for a media server option. Fortunately still at the costing stage so I have not committed myself yet:) Thanks Paul -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Pike Sent: 16 November 2009 16:30 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Allowing website user to record video and voice FMS is Flash Media Server - you need this to record audio and video from Flash to the Server. http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/ You can download a free development version to test with - with the old versions, you could use this for upto 5 connections at once (I think). There are open source alternatives such as Red5 which do the same thing: http://osflash.org/red5 Documentation has improved marginally, but it can be obscure unless you get lucky and install a working version straight away... It's can be a PITA to setup if it does not work straight away - tricky to find any decent instructions relevant to your OS, but apart from that, to record basic audio & video stuff it's pretty easy (there are example apps on the system). You can join the Red 5 mailing list - make sure you post on this one rather than the normal OSFlash list if you want answers :) The alternative might be to use a "hosted" system where the ISP provides the media server application, probably with basic applications that let you record stuff. Flash 10.1 should allow you to get the audio from the microphone of the computer (not sure about access to the webcam directly), but you would still possibly need server side code to record... HTH Glen _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
