Hey everyone,

I am reposting this post from "integration section".

I had been working on to find a solution to get Processing sketches access to webcam input in web browsers; I tried to bridge Camera input from Flash to a Processing sketch in web browsers. It is simply an extended "video" library with the same functions, except that in browser it connects to a flash element on the same page instead of a 'capture' device, using javascript (in browser) as a bridge. So one needs to use this library instead of video library + a webpage with specific javascript in it + a specific flash file that connects to camera.

Here is an example:

http://www.openprocessing.org/testSpace/webcamExample.php
(using Daniel Shiffman's example from Processing)

Though there are problems as you might expect: Performance, and browser compatibility seems to be the first comers. But if we (the community) can work on this together, I think those issues can be fixed one by one. And I think even live audio input through minim would be possible (I don't know much about minim though).

Please let me know if it works on your browser/OS. Currently works fine in Firefox 3 + MacOS X.