Comments on: My first Red5 experience

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:32:11 +0000

This is woefully dated but I can’t believe Red5 doesn’t have a forum (or at least an obvious one).

Do you know of Red5 supports custom classes via SharedObject?

For example, FMS3 seems to handle things like strings just fine but if I made a custom type in AS3 and send it through an SO, it has… issues.

By: Icabod

Icabod — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:41:00 +0000

The difficulty with Red5 is that it is not a simple ‘black box’ approach to recording and playing A/V streams to/from Flash/Flex .SWF applications. Not knowing any JAVA whatsoever is quite an obstacle for the uninitiated naive Flash developer.

Personally, I’m neither a Flash/Flex developer nor a Java developer. Prior to working with Red5, I had concentrated on FlexBuilder and learning some ActionScript. Now I realize that I must also delve into Java. Quite a learning curve.

Would have been a lot simpler to have a ‘black box’ server. I see many people using the oflaDemo/streams directory for everything since it is already there and it works – that is what I am currently doing until I learn enough other stuff to do something different.

Also would be nice to know the bare minimum required to simply do a connect to “rtmp:/myserver/mydirectory/myfile.flv’ I have no need for anything else. I don’t need any server side processing except for it to save and read specific video stream files from a specific location. My guess is that is all most people want and what we have is way more than that.

By: gustavo

gustavo — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:16:35 +0000

man…..I’ve done some “things”….with FMS and…..it is really easy……..all this red5 is such a nightmare……..I gave it a try….cuz……I’ve heard some many things about it..(it is “open source” most of all)……so Im about to give up……..back to FMS……

By: iongion

iongion — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:50:28 +0000

In current version is impossible to debug like this.
You must create a debug configuration, add the red5.jar to the libraries and then select the main class.

After this when you run it will complaint that red5Config(=”red5.xml”) is not found, you modify this to “conf/red5.xml”, it works, BUT then it drops dead showing an exception class path resource [red5.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist … blah

By: Hector

Hector — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:30:01 +0000

Hey, nice post

I did everything but i could never run the demos . I got an “Unable to connect to red5.googlecode.com/svn/snapshots/” I don’t know why, so I cant intsall demos.

By: priyanka

priyanka — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:22:32 +0000

hi,
Great code.thanks for post it.

By: Scott F

Scott F — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:06:34 +0000

Thanks a lot for this great tutorial. I unfortunately did it without eclipse and boy was it a pain!

By: Peter Berg

Peter Berg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:45:22 +0000

Hi friend, thanks for the post. I want to install red5 on a linux server, but I don’t understand how to create a streamimg point on server, and I only will use it for broadcasting live video/audio. Where can I start? I hope your kindly answer? I’m a dummy with this tech. send me any info could help me to bergmp at gmail dot com
thanks in advance!

By: paeppi

paeppi — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:52:00 +0000

thanks for this post, made me smile a couple of times and also contains some handy code snippets.

By: Sunil Kumar Gupta

Sunil Kumar Gupta — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:01:00 +0000

Very Impressive

By: sopuli

sopuli — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:40:00 +0000

Nice tutorial,

I’ve used Red5 in Eclipse by checking out the trunk/the branch I want from their SVN. With the IvyDE plugin the whole thing works straight away from Eclipse.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:46:00 +0000

Hello Marc, a great post..

Would you know of anyone that I could pay to do a server (linux CentOS) of Red5 and all needed files ??

By: georgem

georgem — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:44:00 +0000

Hello Marc, a great post..

Would you know of anyone that I could pay to do a server (linux CentOS) of Red5 and all needed files ??

By: dennis

dennis — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:22:00 +0000

Hi Marc,

I was struggling for days to setup my Eclipse environment to work with Red5 but to no avail .. (I don't have any Java experience and only basic Eclipse knowledge).

But thanks to your tutorial it's working like a charm now.

Thanks a bunch!

By: Chedli

Chedli — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:41:00 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial.
I followed all steps till the “Writing some actionscript” section, I didn’t understand the sandbox thing.
Can someone explain the same thing with Flash as client side.
thanks.