# Capture webcam then encode with h.264 standard to broadcast

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/capture-webcam-then-encode-with-h-264-standard-to-broadcast/35770>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [November 21, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/capture-webcam-then-encode-with-h-264-standard-to-broadcast/35770 "2010-11-21T18:17:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![AI\_VN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AI\_VN](https://community.wowza.com/u/AI_VN)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/capture-webcam-then-encode-with-h-264-standard-to-broadcast/35770/1 "2010-11-21T18:17:37Z")

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Hi all,

I want build a application on window that can capture signal from webcam and microphone then encode ( ex: h.264 standard) to broadcast to internet via a streaming protocal (ex: rtmp or rtsp).

I know VLC or Flash Media Live Encoder can help me capture video and audio from divice to broadcast to internet… but require every clients install VLC or FMLE is unreasonable.

I know ffmpeg command line can help me capture and encode video from webcam (but not microphone) then write to a local file. I don’t find any sample allow capture webcam video and broadcast to internet (broacast from a local file is well)… Wowza give me a sample in [install-dir]/examples/videochat that using flash action scripts to capture and broadcast signal from webcam and microphone. But i know flash not support to encode video with h.264…

Can anyone give me a hint for my application?

Thanks a lot and sorry for my bad english ☹

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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/capture-webcam-then-encode-with-h-264-standard-to-broadcast/35770/2 "2010-11-22T04:17:00Z")

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Nonocosmos ([http://www.nanocosmos.de](http://www.nanocosmos.de)) has browser based software for capturing H.264 and AAC from web camera and sending to the Wowza. It is not free.

Charlie