Okay first of all, I installed Windows Mobile 6.0 on our HTC TyTN. It’s not realy a new version of Windows Mobile on first looks just some updates to make it more feel and look like Windows Vista. Than I installed Flash Flash Player 7 for Pocket PC. A bit unfortunate because the Flash Media Server Components work uptimized for Flash 8 off course…
Now the big test of today was to check if I could use the cam and mic on my PDA as a webcam. If that would be possible than we could make flash aps that can record. Now I had some trouble reverse engineering a delivered test application (can be seen in action here) so it would work on Flash 7 so that I could open it on my PDA. Now eventually after some Hocus Pocus it worked and I could open this site on my pda. I had a clear reception on my PDA of the stream that was recorded on my laptop, it had like a delay of half to full a second. I could enter text on my PDA, only thing that didn’t work was that I wasn’t able to send out either an audio nor a video stream from my PDA.
In fact I’m still looking for something to make my cam work as a webcam on my PDA. For pc there are many software programs to do this. I already found something that makes a webcam from your pda, so you can use your pda as a webcam on your pc, but that is not what I’m looking for, however I’m going to give it a shot, you never know it works ;). The software to do this is WebCamera Plus from ATEKsoft, check it out they have some other cool software for your pda as well. However I have a feeling that CoolCamera (also from Ateksoft) might do the trick. I’m checking this out later this evening.
If somebody knows a solution to this problem please let me know 
Edit: in the mean time I made a forum post on the ATEKsoft website with a request for aid.
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