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1 on 1 video conferencing..possible?

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I was wondering how this would or could be accomplished..2 people log into a secure site, they start a web cam session and can watch each other as they talk either with a mic or on the phone as they see one another.

I know there are programs for web conferencing but can it be done on a website via PHP?

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Solely PHP? Not very easily. You'd have to make it a server in its own right for that to happen. Even then, their clients would need to know how to stream the information to the server.
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What would you recommend in order to do this so the user doesnt have to download a 3rd party software?
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Flash and Java are pretty commonly installed on people's machines. I don't recall whether Flash can do it or not, but I know Java can. Your applet may not be allowed to do so, but normally, I know it can.
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You can do this for sure with Flash(I did it a couple of months ago.). As feyd said Java can do it either(Java is more sophisticated than Flash for sure.)

What I suggest you is to download Media Server(and update it) and after you have installed it you will be ableto read its documentation which will help you a lot.

BTW, I have looked at a research which showed that .flv video format is the best one used for the Internet and Macromedia did their best to ease developers and now it is about one hundred lines of ActionScript to create such an application(I mean a basic one.) Moreover it suppots secure connection(I have never used it but this is what the documentation says.)
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Hi feyd

Is it java or java script?
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Java.
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