Red5 – Realtime Visualizations


VisitAlive is a Flex – Red5 application that works just as the Tour de Flex application but uses Red5’s true push technology built upon RTMP. The application uses Mercator Projection component to project real-time traffic on a global vectorized map.

The application uses two swfs, a actionscript 2  based producer swf and a Flex 3 based consumer swf. The producer, simply helps register the visitor’s connection to Red5 server.

Red5 then uses the Maxmind GeoCityLite database to determine details on the particular connection and stores it as a property in on the client object. The consumer then can make requests about the list of clients using NetConnection.call. The best part of it all is its built using open source stuff.

To experience it on your own.  visit any part of flashvisions.com with the application running in a  different window and see the visualization on the map.

Click to launch application

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May 3, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Actionscript 2.0, Actionscript 3.0, Flex, Java, Red5

2 Responses

  1. Thijs - May 4, 2010

    Very cool! I tried the fullscreen option but the map didn’t actually scale up though..

  2. admin - May 4, 2010

    Yes, actually “fullscreen” option is only suppose to cover the screen. The map component is just set to stay in its place. will be making more enhancements soon :)

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