Display and capture live video stream in asp.net

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Hi,

we have demand from customer to make asp.net live video stream from web cam and at the same time that stream to be saved as a video file for later usage.

Can someone suggest approach to solve this?

Thanks

Posted 10-May-11 5:11am

Mikicar

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TheyCallMeMrJames · Answer 1 · 2011-05-10T05:45:00

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It's not going to happen, at least, not as ASP.NET alone.

ASP.NET is primarily a server side technology. You will need something on the client side to do capture the video frames and upload them, with a server side component to save the video in a coherent fashion.

My suggestion would be to find a pre-existing solution, probably incorporating Flash/JavaScript/something on the server.

Cheers.

Posted 10-May-11 5:45am

TheyCallMeMrJames

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NuttingCDEF 10-May-11 12:53pm

Agree - my 5.

ASP.NET is a web technology for IIS web servers - video capture has to happen on the client - and then be transmitted to the server. Video capture is probably the tough bit - my guess would be that (much as I dislike it for many things) Flash might well be a good starting point.

C# / VB / .NET are Windows based technologies so even if you did write something to download and run on clients, you are limiting yourself to Windows users - which isn't great for a web app.

But if you actually mean just writing a standalone application to run on a (Windows) PC to capture video and save it in a file, then C# / VB using .NET framework is an option - though you might need to tap into other Windows technologies (using COM or native APIs) to get something reaonable working.

alrosan · Answer 2 · 2011-05-10T09:13:00

Solution 2

you can use IIS Media Services with Silverlight smooth streaming and Expression Encoder

Posted 10-May-11 9:13am

alrosan