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

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."

Comments

Re:This should lead to some "interesting" malware.

[an00bis]

To those who complain so much about Flash, enjoy your HTML5.

Recording video in the browser? Great...

[93 Escort Wagon]

Now if only Firefox would support playing the most common modern video format, h.264 - nah, there's no demand for that.