jQuery plugin which wraps up the Windows 8 WinRT Media Capture API

What...

Abstracts the WinRT capture API.. So we can write something like

// initialise the device camera
$("<video width='200px' height='200px'>").capture(function(){

	// Add the tag to the body.
	$(this).appendTo('body');
	
	// Add events to take pictures
	$(this).capture('snapshot', function(){
		// e.blob
		// insert the blob as the src of an image or save
	});
});

This plugin has basic commands

// initialise a webcam stream
$(video).capture(function(){})

// take a picture of the stream
$(video).capture("snapshot", function(blob){})

// start a recording of the stream
$(video).capture("record", function(e){})

// stop a recording of the stream
$(video).capture("stoprecording", function(blob){})

// current state of the recording
$(video).capture("recording", function(e){})

The first argument passed back to the callback function is an object containing links to the video and or image

{
	blob : blob_uri, // browser blob uri. Use this to display in the "src" attribute of the <video> or <img> tags respectively. 
	path : filesystem // path on the filesystem where the temporary file is stored
}

Why

To do this with the WinRT has crazy convoluted namespaces on everything And i'm all for a single code base so you could manipulate this to work with the fourthcoming W3C Capture API

Support & Licsence

Please use freely and help us develop this.