Streaming Bitmaps not Camera

[eric_brito]

Hi, I'd like to know if anyone know how to stream (to Flash Media Server or alikes) the content from a MovieClip, not from the Camera. the go is to capture the images from the camera, aply som effect on it, redrawing the Bitmaps to a movieclip and stream that content to the server, creanting an FLV file with camera effects (something like this: http://www.flameonwebcam.com/).

[eric_brito]

I took another look at flameon website, and teh just record de video, then apply the effects dynamically. But i still want to know if its possible to send the information to Red5 or FMS trhough another source then from Camera.

[wvxvw]

You'd need to write your own protocol and compression algorithm for what you're going to send, both in AS and Java / whatever language FMS understands (I believe it's C, but I may be wrong there), or if you are more familiar with C# - you could try to do this with WebOrb, but, anyways, it's not an easy task...
+ as long as encoding should take place on the client side and you're going to implement it with AS, I doubt the encoding speed may compare to that of the of the Flash player itself...

[eric_brito]

Thanks for the answers wvxvw. As I can see, that's definitly not an easy task.
Another site is the "Rock Your Look" site (http://66.70.39.100/) created by the agency Grow Interactive. They send the "modified" video direct to Youtube. Maybe the have some kind of partnership with Google to do that.

[wvxvw]

Here's what the company I work in does:
(this is an example)
http://www.aditall.com/mixer/mixer.aspx
And this is AS2 a very old version... but we will be upgrading, hopefully, soon.
The main idea here is you don't render video on the client, you just tell the server what it should render into the resulting video. But I cant honestly think of the way to render video on the client... it would require very smart and inventive engineering...

[webreake]

this issue had been talk in the mailing list of red5 i thought they mention the way to do it is using bytearray AS3 to send your bitmapdata and then transform that into a FLV using ffmpeg