Saving webcam images to a server

I would like to write a flash app that accesses a local
webcam and then on
the click of a button saves a jpg image to a server.
Is this possible, and are there any examples or tutorials.
Many thanks
Dave

I'm reading more about this and it seems that this method of
using flash is
going to be quite intensive for the client machine to send
the data to the
server and for the server to process and save the jpeg.
I had hoped it would be a quick task which would not be too
intensive.
Ideally I want to have 10 client machines connected to 1
server. Each client
machine has a webcam, and can save images of people to the
server.
Is this looking unlikely?
Also, is there any similar script for asp/vbscript?
Thanks
"dave" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:e4v14o$4e6$[email protected]..
> Thanks blemmo
>
> It looks quite tricky but I'll have a play with it.
>
> "blemmo" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:e4uupl$1e9$[email protected]..
>> hi Dave,
>>
>> it's possible with Flash 8, see this tutorial: <a
target=_blank
>> class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
>> href="
http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/print_screen/">http://www.sephi
>> roth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/print_screen/</a>.
Combine it with this
>> tutorial: <a
>> target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
>> href="
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/webcam_motion_03.html">http://w
>>
ww.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/webcam_motion_03.html</a>,
and you
>> should be
>> there.
>>
>> hth,
>> blemmo
>>
>
>

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