Mozilla Labs Add-On Provides Video and Audio Recording From the Browser

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 28, 2010 @11:43AM from the straightforward-enough dept.

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."

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Re:so...uh... by arielCo · 2010-10-28 12:59 · Score: 2, 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 and global.
Maybe the good boys at Mozilla thought of that too.

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