AIR can do it natively, check out the link I posted earlier or Google for RichFLV. Some very slick apps already doing this.
-- William --- In [email protected], "gilbert_mizrahi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Greg and William, > > I now you can do that with FMS/Red 5, but on the tour Adobe people > specifically mentioned that the recording could be done with AIR > directly. I even asked after they showed the slides and they said yes > (unfortunately they did not give more details). > > Greg, can I install the Flash Media Encoder (FME) on a local machine > and record a FLV? Is there a way to manage the interaction from an AIR > app. ? > > Or can I launch the FME from a Zinc 3 application made with Flex? > > Thanks, > > Gilbert > > --- In [email protected], "Abyss Knight" <briggins@> wrote: > > > > You may be able to roll your own solution by manipulating a byte array > > and writing it to the disk, assuming you know the binary format of an > > FLV or the video type you wish to write. The other option is to stream > > it to an FMS/Red5 server as Greg pointed out. > > > > To out this in perspective, when I was at the onAIR Bus Tour event I > > saw someone demo an application that did WAV file mixing and wrote the > > binary to disk for playback as a WAV file. The developer had coded his > > own WAV file creation routines. It was amazing, and I am certain the > > same applies for videos. > > > > -- William > > > > --- In [email protected], "greg h" <FlexAirVideoGuru@> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Gilbert, > > > > > > Yes, yes and no. > > > -- Yes AIR/Flex/Flash can encode input from a camera object (plus > > microphone > > > object for the audio :) > > > -- Yes, this encoding actually happens in Flash Player/AIR > > > -- No, AIR has no API supporting storing the recorded FLV to the local > > > desktop. I WISH IT DID!!! (Anyone from Adobe listening?) But last > > I saw, > > > no. (If I am wrong on this, someone please post details. Please?!!!) > > > Anyway, Yes we can save bitmaps locally. But not FLV streams. To > > actually > > > capture FLV streams to a file, you have to have a Flash Media > > Server. Then > > > if you want the FLV local, you have to have the AIR app download > it back > > > down. Baffling to me why AIR fails to give us an API to just > store the > > > locally recorded FLV client side. > > > > > > Even weirder, for high quality live encoding Adobe provides Flash > Media > > > Encoder (FME). FME is not an AIR app, and I understand why (it > > needs APIs > > > not in AIR (yet?)). Anyway, if you record with FME it stores the > > FLV client > > > side! > > > > > > Again, I hope that an API was added to AIR for storing FLVs (perhaps > > late in > > > AIR's development cycle). And again, if so, anyone who can provide > > details > > > please let Gilbert and I know. > > > > > > hth, > > > > > > g > > > > > >
