Mozilla Labs Add-On Provides Video and Audio Recording From the Browser 132
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla Labs is working on an experimental add-on which enables video and audio recording in the browser. Anant Narayanan writes on the Mozilla Labs blog, 'The Rainbow add-on for Firefox is an early developer prototype that enables web developers to access local video and audio recording capabilities using just a few lines of JavaScript. The add-on generates files encoded in open formats: Theora (for video) and Vorbis (for audio) in an Ogg container. The resulting files are accessible in DOM using HTML5 File APIs, which may be used to upload them to a server.' Support for live streaming and WebM is planned for a future version of the add-on."
Re:so...uh... (Score:3, Informative)
this thing can turn on my webcam and upload the vids just because i clicked on a link?
let me ask, how do i NEVER get this add-on?
Got Flash? Yes it can, and guess what: there are settings for that, per site [macromedia.com] and global [macromedia.com].
Maybe the good boys at Mozilla thought of that too.