As I understand the module it renders pictures to the Drupal page from files already put on the internet through e.g. a webcam-ftp-upload applet on a persons computer. This is handy, but what I guess a lot of people would love was the ability to serve the webcam directly through the browser. I know that Flash has the ability to use a webcam as an input source. Would it be possible to use this feature to let people with the right permissions open a webpage in the background on which there is a flash applet running so that it could save the picture onto the server? Maybe this could be a seperate module (webcam-serve?) which the webcam module could use as input source?

I would love thoughts and comments on this

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Flow@www.my-flow.com commented
Priority: Normal » Minor
Status: Active » Postponed

First of all, Flash is not my area of expertise. I understand your idea and I know that Flash can access local microphones and webcams. Actually a Flash based drupal module which can perform the storage of webcam images on an FTP server, for instance, could be developed separately and independently from this module. But you must not forget that only the webmaster of a drupal powered website is supposed to use the webcam module, it is not possible for different users of the same website to have their own webcam images being displayed at the same time.

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