Non-flash / No-plugin Video chat?

Question

We are developing a social website and looking to implement video/audio chat for users (people a user is friends with). Most of the talk from the tech team was to use flash. But

Answer 1

Flash is already installed on practically ever browser out there -- except iPhones, iPads, etc. which will likely never support Flash.

AJAX and HTML and CSS currently have no access to video and audio input hardware, so that's a non-starter. In the future this may change.

For now Flash is (for better or for worse) the best way to go.

Answer 2

No, unfortunately you can only do this with a plugin (ie Flash).

Answer 3

I don't believe you have access to video or audio input devices from just the browser.

Answer 4

HTML5 will be the answer in the near future (Work in progress): Link1 and Link2

But for now the only option is Flash