How to make an application to capture video using Flash?

I need to build an app. that will record video from the webcam, show the user what's being recorded and have buttons to start the re开发者_StackOverflow社区cording, stop and send to the server.

Here at SO people said the easiest way would be using Flash, but I never used it and searching the web it's being kind of confuse so where should I start?

Thanks.

This requires two steps. Displaying web cam input is the first step and recording it is the second. There is an excellent example of how to access a users camera in the AS3 language reference.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/

For recording check out the open source Red5 server. It allows you to capture audio and video. http://osflash.org/red5

I believe recording is also possible with the Flash Media Server by Adobe. http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/