Questions tagged [red5]

Red5 is an open source media server written in Java as an alternative to Adobe's proprietary Flash Media Server(FMS).

Red5 is an Open Source media server written in Java that may be used in-place of Adobe FMS or Wowza; it currently supports:

  • Streaming Video Formats (FLV, F4V, MP4, 3GP)
  • Streaming Audio Formats (MP3, F4A, M4A, AAC)
  • Recording Client Streams (FLV and AVC+AAC in FLV container)
  • Shared Objects
  • Live Stream Publishing
  • Remoting
  • Protocols: RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPS, and RTMPE
  • Codecs: Any flash supported codec (PCM, FLV1, ScreenVideo, VP6, NellyMoser, MP3, AAC, AVC/h.264)

Includes plug-in support with several existing applications.

  • NSV streaming
  • RTP/RTSP streaming
  • SIP
  • MPEG/TS streaming (Live and VOD)
  • Security

Red5 installs and runs using Tomcat. Applications are typically compiled as .war files and placed in the $RED5_PATH/webapps folder where the server unpacks them and creates the appropriate folders.

Red5 Project page | Users list | Organization

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NodeJS and RED 5 media server via RTMP

This is more a conceptual question rather than a direct "how to do this". Is it generally possible to implement a flash-like solution to stream the audio (independent of where we get the stream data from, e.g. webRTC or other) in HTML5 and…
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Stream video to an RTMP based Media Server (Red5) using C#

I am writing an C#.Net based application which requires publishing video and audio streams to Red 5 Media Server and retrieving the same published stream in another application on a local network and later on on internet. In short, I intend to use…
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Media streaming basics - HTTP vs RTMP

I am very new to media streaming, and I have some basic doubts to clear : As far as I can understand, the difference between HTTP streaming (say through Apache) and a RTMP streaming (through Red5) is that streaming servers provide buffering and…
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Ignore sources jar in Ivy retrieve

I would like to retrieve ONLY the library jar when I make use of a dependency entry in my ivy.xml for Red5 (or any project for that matter). No matter how I have configured it, I still get "sources" jars for dependencies. I have scoured the docs and…
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Read red5 live stream with HTML5

How can I read a Red5 (RTMFP) stream using HTML5?
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Simple alternatives to Red5 recorder and server for webcam video capture?

I'm looking for a flash script/library to capture video and audio from a webcam and then somehow get a saved flv to my encoding server. I'm not looking for something that will host the videos for me. I just need something simple to capture and then…
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How to handle multiple video streams in Red5?

I am writing a Red5 application that provides 1-on-1 video chat to a Flash client over RTMP. Unfortunately most tutorials I was able to find were sketchy at best and the documentation of Red5 itself tends to be vague when it comes to API concepts…
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Linux: How to kill programs that use port 1935?

I have a red5 server (JAVA) running on my Linux server. Sometimes, the server shuts down. When I try to restart it I got an error: "Binding error, this port is alerady in use". So I try to kill the server with killall -9 java and try to restart the…
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Android MediaRecorder in streaming

Its possible to "stream" result of MediaRecorder? The unique method i can see is mediaRecorder.setOutputFile that receives a FileDescriptor. So i can write the result to a File or send via socket to receiver. I tried the second solution but the…
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How to redirect a RTMP stream to clients

I have a RTMP stream being broadcasted in the same server as my Spring Boot application. For instance, it can be accessed using rtmp://localhost/livestream And it's a video livestream, broadcasted from a RED5 server. I want to redirect this…
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Stream video From iPhone Or Android to RTMP

is there any way to Stream video From iPhone Or Android to RTMP Server using Red5?? i searched over internet and there is only 2 application that mange to do this successfully (UStream , Qik) the problem they closed source So if anyone could help…
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Red5 RTMP Streaming

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…
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java c3p0: how can i configure autoreconnect=true?

I'm writing a red5 application using Java and I'm using the c3p0 for the database interaction. It seems that after the connection as timed out in my MySQL server my application stops working with a suggestion to configure autoreconnect=true. how can…
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Wireshark doesnt' recognises RTMP streams

I found on the web few samples on tracking RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol) with Wireshark, but it doesn't work for me. All RTMPT packets rendered as basic TCP packet like this: 149 14.324999 85.115.xxx.xxx 192.168.1.20 TCP macromedia-fcs >…
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how to publish flv file using ffmpeg to RTMP server in `real time`?

what i'm trying to do is publishing a .flv media file to RTMP server to let subscribers watch it. i'm testing to view the stream in several subscribers (the oflaDemo) and with ffplay. the problem is that ffmpeg publish the 5 minutes .flv file to the…
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