A small jQuery plugin that wraps a Flash-based webcam interface (via .swf) to enable webcam capture and control from JavaScript in web pages. A small wrapper library to be able to communicate with a Flash webcam via JavaScript. The camera doesn't work if you have any dom-errors on your page. If you want to draw the picture onto a canvas, have a look at the source of the page on the blog. For further details and code examples take a look at the demonstration and documentation page.

Features

  • Embeds a Flash webcam interface into HTML pages
  • Supports callback mode for timed captures
  • onTick callback for countdown behavior
  • onCapture and onSave handlers for processing image data
  • Debug support via custom logging callbacks
  • Retrieves camera list on load (onLoad callback)

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Programming Language

ActionScript

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2025-08-11