HTML5 getUserMedia API and WebRTC support for audio and video from Aida web apps

Goals

• access to video and audio devices from Smalltalk web apps
• picture snapshots by mobile phones
• Dictaphone-like apps on mobile phones
• HTML5 getUserMedia API support
• Peer-to-peer video conferencing with WebRTC

Further reading

• Capturing Audio & Video in HTML5 (HTML5 Rocks tutorial may12)
• Instant Camera demo
• HTML5 Webcam Toy (effects, picture download)
• W3C specification: Media Capture and Streams

• WebRTC project for Real-Rime Communications like video chat via simple Javascript API
• RTCWeb Explained video
• Video and Audio Enabler WebRTC Near Release  (IEEE Spectum oct12)
• Getting started with WebRTC (HTML5Rocks)
• Ericsson Labs: Beyond HTML5: Peer-to-Peer Conversational Video

• SocialAPI proposal by Mozilla

• Uploading 'canvas' image data to the server  (StackOverflow)