Red5 RTMP Streaming

Question

I'm very new to RTMP streaming and am seeking help. Just enough to get me started.

I have been Googling for about 5-7 hours now and still cannot determine my answer!

The documentation of Red5 is limited and cannot find any support at all! Even similar questions to mine are unanswered on stackoverflow :(

My questions are:

1. Why can't I simply place an .mp3 inside red5's server root and play it?
2. To serve a simple MP3 file over RTMP. Do I need to write a Java application?
3. If so, any pointers?

To make matters worse, I have little to none Java experience.

Please help ST.

Answer 1

for streaming an mp3 file you don't need any functionality of the red5 server, a webserver should be enough.

if you still have to load it from the red5 server:

• is the file accessible in your browser? e.g. http://[red5-server]/file.mp3
• then just use this url when loading the mp3 file in flash

Answer 2

have you got the Demos that come with RED5 installed? You won't have to code in java but you will have to open up a connection in flash in order to stream the mp3, the demos that comes with RED5 installation should have those examples.

Answer 3

I felt Wowza easier. There is a free version of Wowza which allows upto 10 connections. But after that you have start shelling money. But definitely lesser than FMS! And it is very easy. Just a few steps to setup and you can have your very own RTMP application streaming mp3 :) And if you do find the answer of how to stream RTMP on Red5, please do let me know!

Answer 4

I'm also playing with red5, and I've considered these two resources very helpful:

• http://www.red5tutorials.net/index.php/Tutorials:Getting_Started_With_Red5_Server
• http://trac.red5.org/wiki/Documentation/UsersReferenceManual/Red5CoreTechnologies/01-Creating-New-Applications#Chapter1.CreatenewapplicationsinRed5

Answer 5

Yes, the Red5 documentation is probably the poorest I've encountered in open source software. I'm going to give it a go, but if their code is anything like their documentation I'll probably just pay for FMS.

Answer 6

The easiest way to do what you want to is to install the oflaDemo. Start your red5 server and go to http://localhost:5080/installer
You need to select "oflaDemo" there and install it, if you don't already have it installed. Next place your mp3's or whatever in the following location

%RED5_HOME%/webapps/oflaDemo/streams

Red5 home will be the directory where you installed Red5. So if you used an installer it may look like this:

C:\Program Files\Red5\webapps\oflaDemo\streams

To play your mp3 without writing any code flash or java, next go to this url: http://localhost:5080/demos/ofla_demo.html
Connect and select your file from the list and thats it.