Communicating with a flash server using rtmp without Flash

Question

I want to talk to a flash server which uses RTMP, but I don't want to use Flash, but rather c# or java.

I was looking at Red5 but their client API seems to be a bit wobbly.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

Answer 1

There's a python implementation of the RTMP protocol, RTMPy. Other than that and Red5, I don't know of any other RTMP client implementations. (Well, besides flash itself of course).

What flash server are you using? Some of them allow you to communicate with other protocols as well, such as text-based or XML-based, and those might be better to use than RTMP if your client is not flash-based.

Answer 2

Take a look at commercial JUV Client (http://www.smaxe.com/juvclient.jsf) library that lets you communicate with rtmp enabled servers.

Answer 3

I also started developing a C++ RTMP server. I'll make a C++ client library as well in the near future and, of course, C#,Java and Lua wrappers. Stay tuned on this site or you can become a group member here and get informed right away.

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Answer 4

"RTMP: Flash video streaming protocol" discusses libraries and applications for communicating with RTMP servers.

rtmpdump utility for downloading RTMP video streams uses the libRTMP from XBMC media center. this library is written in C++ and seems to be quite self-contained (at least as used in rtmpdump).