Red 5 is a pretty amazing server software written in java. The Red 5 development team has put in tons of effort to make it a open source alternative to Adobe FMS ? Flash Media Server.
Red 5 is a perfectly suitable technology for ?Video On Demand? applications, streaming, publishing, mealtime collaboration, multi player gaming and more….
Red 5 is on all shared hosting plans of Hosting Marketers. By default the red5 server comes with some sample applications pre installed into it, like oflaDemo, fitcDemo, SoSample etc.
When installing and using red5 you have to keep in mind some configurations and security concerns. Red 5 was created to emulate the RTMP Protocol (real time messaging).
Even today where many don’t know the capabilities of Red5 or are scared of the complications offered by java coding, i must tell you… once you get to use it you will love it :).
There are many applications to be made with RTMP and many possibilities to be discussed. Here we will discuss a simple application that can stream from custom directory. This application will be server side and will help you set up your own basic application which does not require you to use the global oflaDemo.
Hosting Marketers offer you Red5 Hosting facility on their servers, which is needless to say … amazing.
You can host you own youtube or clipshare clones at a very nominal cost. However to avoid any problems, as you will be sharing resources on a shared server, it’s always better to create your own application, that accepts incoming outgoing requests.
This tutorial does not give you the scope to create the application from scratch, rather configure it to use a custom path on the server to stream from / record to . You can then safely use your own account path to handle streams. By default oflaDemo uses streams directory on the server to play/record streams.
Though this tutorial gives you a course on setting up the same, many have difficulties getting it done.
So here is the practical way of doing it.
I assume you already have basic Application class ready, which makes your application valid. We will simply use a custom filename generator to change the stream paths.
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