Just a quickie - a user on Stackoverflow asked how to both capture video and display it in the app. This is fairly easy with the Media Capture API so I thought I'd whip up a quick demo.

First, I created an HTML page with a button and an empty div to hold the video later on:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<meta charset="utf-8">
		<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
		<title></title>
		<meta name="description" content="">
		<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/app.css" />
	</head>
	<body>

		<button id="takeVideo">Take Video</button>
		<div id="videoArea"></div>

	<script src="cordova.js"></script>	
	<script src="js/app.js"></script>
	</body>
</html>

And then I wrote up the following JavaScript:

document.addEventListener("deviceready", init, false);
function init() {
	
	
	document.querySelector("#takeVideo").addEventListener("touchend", function() {
		console.log("Take video");
		navigator.device.capture.captureVideo(captureSuccess, captureError, {limit: 1});
	}, false);
	
}

function captureError(e) {
	console.log("capture error: "+JSON.stringify(e));
}

function captureSuccess(s) {
	console.log("Success");
	console.dir(s[0]);
	var v = "<video controls='controls'>";
	v += "<source src='" + s[0].fullPath + "' type='video/mp4'>";
	v += "</video>";
	document.querySelector("#videoArea").innerHTML = v;
}

So I begin by simply listening for a touch event to the button I create. I then use the Media Capture API to start the video process. In the success handler I just take the result's fullPath property and put it in HTML. I was kinda surprised the path worked as I had thought I'd need to use a URL form, but it worked just fine.

Here it is running on my iPad.

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If for some reason you want to try this yourself, I uploaded it to my Cordova demo repo: https://github.com/cfjedimaster/Cordova-Examples/tree/master/videotest1.