red5

How to record webcam to flv with smooth playback

I would like my website to record flvs using webcams. These flvs need to play smoothly so I can play with them afterwards, for example transcoding them to avis. I've tried many different servers to handle the flv recording. The resulting flvs play OK in Wimpy FLV Player, for example, except that the progress indicator doesn't move smoot...

Red5: are there any low level tutorials or examples available online?

I've been wanting to use Red5 for quite a long time but everytime I set out and try something, I keep getting stuck. The examples that come with the application are informative, but I just can't seem to wrap my mind around everything (especially the Java part, since that is not one of my 'core' languages). Is there anyone who has found a...

Should i write my own flash-server in Erlang or use Red5?

I'm a student about to start my exam project, where I will be responsible for the server implementation of an online game targeting the flash player. I have a hard time to decide wether i should write my own lightweight server in Erlang or use the open source Red5. My experience is that java-developers tend to overcomplexify things mak...

Has anybody used JPA with Red5?

Hi! I'm developing a red5 application. I have to retrieve some data from the database and I want to use JPA to do this, preferably the toplink implementation? I know that red5 deploys application with Spring and I also know that I have to configure the red5-web.xml but I don't have any idea how to do this. Does anybody here know how t...

Voice Echo Problem

I'm trying to build a video chat program using Adobe Flex but there is a giant problem with echos. If the participants arn't using headsets, everything they say echos. Worse, they can actually create positive feedback loop of echos that won't end until the mics are muted. Has anyone found a solution for this on the Flex/Flash platform...

Error streaming high quality FLV over RTMP with Red5

I'm rather new to the FLV streaming/Red5 scene and have found that for some reason I cannot playback FLV files encoded above a certain quality using the oflaDemo. I've encoded the FLV files from h264 to Sorenson Spark using ffmpeg. It works using -qscale 31, but anything much higher (the number seems to change between different movies) r...

how can I convert mpeg to flv on the server?

need to convert videos to flv on my Red5 server.Any help in this regard will be very helpful. ...

RTSP in Flex

We are currently working on a Flex application that needs to connect to a set a traffic detection cameras via RTSP. Being totally new to the world of video streaming in general, I was wondering if that is possible. AFAIK it is not possible to consume an RTSP feed in the Flash player, so I'm thinking that we would need some sort of a con...

Red5 stream flv file

Hi everybody I was inspecting the oflaDemo from Red5. I was wondering how I could change the oflaDemo so that I could stream a certain flv file to all the subscribers... /** {@inheritDoc} */ @Override public boolean appConnect(IConnection conn, Object[] params) { // Trigger calling of "onBWDone", required for some FLV play...

How do these vars get initialised?

The following code is a combination of samples taken from red5. Basically I am trying to combine a live stream subscriber with a chat box based on shared objects. I'm not a flash developer and have a very limited understanding of what is going on here. // ** AUTO-UI IMPORT STATEMENTS ** import org.red5.utils.Connector; import org.re...

Red5 + Java + Windows installation + ant compilation : it works, but why ?

I'm totally new to both java and java Server worlds... But I've a good knowledge (17 years) of object-oriented programming. My question is : Why do I have to call ant to make it work (see later, if you're not interested, skip my question ^_^ ) ? Here's what I want : create a simple application that can do a videoconference (= the ser...

actionscript to java (red5)

I'm trying to migrate an existing actionscript program (server part) to java (red5). However, I'm blocked with the following code : Client.prototype.requestInterview = function () { }; Does anyone know what is the equivalent of Client.prototype in red5 ? Thanks in advance, Massi ...

red5 actionscript

Hi all, How to get a parameter encode in the url ? for exemple, if we have an html file containning : how to get the value of a from application.java class ? Thanks ...

red5 actionscript and LoadVars

is there any equivalent of LoadVars class for red5 ? if there is no equivalent, how to have a have same behaviour as functions load and sendandload of LoadVars ? ...

How to use Red5 with Asp.net

Hi, I want to record voice online and I guess I need to use FMS or Red5 and I don't know how to use Red5 with Asp.net, actually this is my first attempt to handle such a thing and currently I am a .net developer. So someone please show me a way to handle it and show me how to use Red5 with Asp.net. Thanks in advance. ...

Red5 plugin for eclipse?

What url do you use for it because http://www.red5.org/projects/red5plugin/update_0.1.x/ gots redirected to http://code.google.com/p/red5/, and my eclipse is heavily complaining about network connection problems (other plugins update correctly). ...

problem with audio chat app using red5

i am trying to create a simple audio chat app.. i got some help from the following link. http://sunil-gupta.blogspot.com/2008/06/two-way-av-chat-application-with-fms3.html. in the above link the author gave a simple 2 way chat app. in the above link they are using two separate streams for user1 and user2. i want to extend it to a group c...

How to expose Red5's SharedObjects through SOAP

Edit: Obviously my first question was not really easy to understand, I hope the answer is usefull :) I have tried installing Axis2 on the Red5 server and everything went ok, I accessed the Red5 app properties from a custom Web Service using Red5's RTMPClient and exposed them through Axis2. The problem is that doing it that way I have a...

Live video broadcast and server resources using RED5

how much ram do i need to run a server with red5 and broadcast live video I am starting a project that will include live video broadcasts from all over the world and it is expected to have at least 1000 users viewing those videos in real time. After looking around a bit i have decided to use RED5 to handle all the video streaming/recor...

server resources in live video broadcast

I am starting a project that will include live video broadcasts from all over the world and it is expected to have at least 1000 users viewing those videos in real time. After looking around a bit i have decided to use RED5 to handle all the video streaming/recording, based on the fact that it is free and open source, but i am still ope...