Passing parameters to Red5 application with OSMF

Recently working on a Flex project i had the need to implement a video player in my Flex application. Although my needs did not involve media streaming, rather only playing live streams, i still needed a  industry standard code to my solution. Thats where OSMF (Strobe)  came handy. Tracking OSMF for a few months, seems [...]

March 26, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Actionscript 3.0, OSMF, Red5  No Comments

H.264 licensing for Flash Lite for OEMs

Via embeddedflash – ” Flash Lite 3 (and now 4) can be customized to support h.264 video but the license for h.264 needs to be purchased separately by OEMs”. H.264 has a different licensing structure for devices and internet users. For non PC type devices, h.264 licenses is free upto 100K units and it costs [...]

March 10, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Flash Lite, Mobile  No Comments

Red5 and Flex 4 Spark VideoPlayer

Here is a little demonstration of the new spark video player in Flex 4 SDK, that plays a rtmp stream from Red5. The Flex 4 SDK is still in beta as of this date and thus there may be some issues if you use it commercially right now. I had some issues with autoplay being false. So [...]

February 20, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Actionscript 3.0, Flex, Red5  4 Comments

RED5 vs FMS – Part 1

Red5 and FMS features in comparison
Following are few of the functions and properties of RED5 and FMS in comparison. In most of the aspects you will find Red5 to be slightly more complicated but far more powerful than Flash Media Server. The Red5 Team is working on bring around SSAS (Server side actionscript) to [...]

October 14, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: General, RTMP, Red5  No Comments


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