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Red5 Remoting

Remoting a facility by which a client can call a server method in a  request response fashion. Unlike RTMP remoting services are performed using AMF over HTTP/HTTPS. Red5 can act as both a RTMP server as well as a HTTP/HTTPS remoting server. Remoting enables non rtmp clients to access Red5 methods.  A very practical approach would be to request chat room user count for example. Using remoting you can request such data without consuming too much server resources as in a RTMP connection. You can also create chat programs with simple amf-polling as well. Remoting also lets you sync data types over both ends (client-server) (more…)

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Justice Prevails – “Apple the new world leader in software insecurity”


Even as the current market for Adobe Flash soars sky high, we cant forget what Adobe went through a little while back, taking backlash from Apple. Riding on waves of iPhone/iPad success, the company had completely forgotten a very simple thing. “What you throw at others, comes back at you one day.” (more…)

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Record Live Stream With Red5 Media Server

Most commonly known modes of working in RTMP servers  are the live, record and append modes. However a most commonly required mode which is not provided in the flash API is the Live-Record mode. Each RTMP server has its own way of implementing it on the server side. Here we will see how to use flash client and Red5 to do live-record.

Red5 Server Application Code: – [ Goes into Application Class ]

/** {@inheritDoc} */
@Override
public boolean connect(IConnection conn, IScope scope, Object[] params) {
return true;
}

/** {@inheritDoc} */
@Override
public void disconnect(IConnection conn, IScope scope) {
super.disconnect(conn, scope);
}

@Override
public void streamPublishStart(IBroadcastStream stream)
{
try {
stream.saveAs(stream.getPublishedName(), false);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

@Override
public void streamBroadcastClose(IBroadcastStream stream)
{
System.out.print("Broadcast Closed");
}

@Override
public void streamBroadcastStart(IBroadcastStream stream)
{
System.out.print("Broadcast Started");
}

In the above code you will see there are two events for handling BroadcastStart:  streamBroadcastStart and streamPublishStart. We will typically use streamPublishStart which is safer. The method saveAs takes two parameters: savefilename and append. When append is true Red5 will try to append new stream data to existing file , in which case it may throw exception if file was not existing. Thus we surround the statement by a  try… catch block to handle such situations.

Flash Client Sample:

In your flash client code you create a simple publisher and publish the stream as live stream. Red5 will automatically begin recording the stream at server end.

import flash.events.NetStatusEvent;
import flash.events.StatusEvent;
import flash.media.*;
import flash.system.*;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import fl.controls.Button;

var mic:Microphone;
var cam:Camera;
var micAllowed:Boolean = false;
var camAllowed:Boolean = false;
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
var ns:NetStream;

nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS,onNetStatus);
nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/customstreamer");

function onNetStatus(e:NetStatusEvent):void
{
switch(e.info.code)
{
case "NetConnection.Connect.Success":
initStream();
attachDevices();
break;
}
}

function onStreamStatus(e:NetStatusEvent):void
{
trace(e.info.code);
}

function initStream()
{
ns = new NetStream(nc);
ns.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS,onStreamStatus);
}

function attachDevices():void
{
mic = Microphone.getMicrophone();
cam = Camera.getCamera();
if(mic != null) configureMic();
if(cam != null) configureCam();
}

function configureMic()
{
mic.rate = 22;
mic.gain = 50;
mic.setLoopBack(true);
mic.setUseEchoSuppression(true);
mic.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, onMicStatus);
}

function configureCam()
{
cam.setLoopback(true);
cam.setMode(176,144,15);
cam.setKeyFrameInterval(5);
cam.setQuality(0,70);
cam.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, onCamStatus);
vid.attachCamera(cam);
}

function onMicStatus(s:StatusEvent):void
{
switch(s.code)
{
case "Microphone.Unmuted":
micAllowed = true;
break;

case "Microphone.Muted":
micAllowed = false;
break;
}

validateRecorder();
}

function onCamStatus(s:StatusEvent):void
{
switch(s.code)
{
case "Camera.Unmuted":
camAllowed = true;
break;

case "Camera.Muted":
camAllowed = false;
break;
}

validateRecorder();
}

function validateRecorder()
{
if(camAllowed || micAllowed)
{
btnStart.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,onStart);
btnStop.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,onStop);
}
}

function onStart(me:MouseEvent):void
{
ns.attachAudio(mic);
ns.attachCamera(cam);
ns.publish("demostream","live");
}

function onStop(me:MouseEvent):void
{
ns.close();
}

You will notice that in the above code we stream cam/mic data in live mode. And our server side code captures the live broadcast into a flv container.

Download FLA: (required Flash CS5)

last comments
Jorj
Jorj

Thank you so much! I've been searching for this functionality :)
adilfacron
adilfacron

Thank you for example. I have a queston. I tried your example, everything worked well but recorded flv contains nothing…
PJ
PJ

Thank you. Great example. I think Red5 is a great alternative to FMS & Wowza since its open source with…
oliver_vip
oliver_vip

thax alot! this is a thanksgiving letter from China!

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Live Streaming With Flash Media Encoder & Red5

Online live streaming is one of the top ranks that Adobe Flash holds at the moment. Although you will find many web-based flash recorders and live streaming applications, none can match the Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder. As i have noticed FMLE has a much superior encoding quality as compared to any swf based encoder (more…)

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Chris
Chris

Red 5 comes actually without midiDemo and i dont know how to install it :(
rashdan
rashdan

hi, is there any other way to view the live stream without using publisher? for example plain html or java.…
Gwyneth Llewelyn
Gwyneth Llewelyn

You can use the "live" app instead. I don't have the midiDemo either...
Gwyneth Llewelyn
Gwyneth Llewelyn

You might take a look at this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43647089 It seems to work well with minimal HTML5 and linking to a…