Hello.

I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Building a video editor on the web. Part 0.1 - Screencast

Paul Kinlan

In this post, I'm sharing a screencast demonstrating how I built a web-based webcam and screen recorder using the navigator.getDisplayMedia API. This allows users to grant access to their screen content for recording. The code provided captures both screen and audio, combines them into a single video stream, and allows downloading the recorded video as a webm file. This is a very early stage, and the current output is raw. The ultimate goal is to build a full-fledged video editor in the browser, but for now, this screencast shows the initial steps in capturing video and audio.

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