The new Red5 0.9 is out. I guess i missed it on release date 🙁 . Nevertheless.. the Red5 team seems to be doing a wonderful job as they near to the first stable version (1.0) of Red5. And since its the only good to use and friendly Open source RTMP server out there, its no wonder that everyone have their eye on its progress. Great job Red5 Team !!
In this tutorial we see how to connect to a mysql database, regardless of whether you have access to JDBC adapter on your Red5 running server. Definitely JDBC would be faster, but this method will get you across just fine in any Red5 project involving databases.
Since we wont be using Java way of connecting to mysql, i pick php as the delegate for that. so our communication will be like this:
JAVA -> PHP -> MYSQL
and
MYSQL -> PHP -> JAVA
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As of the current version of JW FLV Media Player 4.6, there is a issue with streaming flv videos from red5 server (tested with 0.7). As there is no solution given on the forum i decided to explore it on my own. The problem happens when flash requests a stream from red5. At this stage red5 generates a meta file which is used to trigger meta event on flv players. However at this stage the flv itself is considered as broken. Hence any attempt to play back the video now will fail until the meta is removed and flv restores to normal by red core engine. It seems the most obvious manual way to do this manually was to hit the stop button and help red5 understand the stream request was released (more…)
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 actionscript programmers who may not be very fond of java. Its expected to come put with the first grand release of Red5 ‘s version 1.0 (more…)
