Can I process video using flash?

I want to have a web page where user can activate his/her web-camera and send video to another user. Additionally to that I want to have a possibility to process video on the client side. In more details, I 开发者_开发问答want to have a program which analyze video on the client side. Is it possible to do it with Flash?

On the first part of your question:

You can do this, but you need a streaming server. Adobe Flash Media Server, Red5 or Wowza.

On processing video:

The flash plugin is a resources hog as is, don't you think that would be a bit too much for the client?