Mozilla Rainbow is not a crossbrowser solution, only work in firefox but worth a try <a href="http://mozillalabs.com/rainbow/" rel="nofollow">http://mozillalabs.com/rainbow/</a>
You could create an NPAPI plugin. That would be annoying for you and users. You could use flash. Or you could wait for the HTML5 Device Capture API (or whatever it becomes... <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/</a>). It doesn't look like it is happening anytime soon though.
Not yet, but check <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video-conferencing-and-peer-to-peer-communication" rel="nofollow">http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video-con...</a>
You might be able to do it with Java, but honestly that's even worse.<p>The hard part is that it is a security issue to record video from a webcam from a webpage. Flash lets you get around this.
we struggled with the same desire to _not_ use flash, but were ultimately forced to. That said, you can still stream back the recorded video to iOS devices or other html5 clients using wowza