There are some streaming example applications bundled with Red5. You may want to take a look at those for a starting point. As Hank points out, the Red5 mailing list is also a really great resource.
Thanks Hank for recommending Red5 and explaining things so well. One note however: Hank wrote: "Red5 which is all written in Java and is, as I understand it, a servlet." Red5 is written in Java using the Spring Framework, MINA and Jetty. The Jetty portion of the application does indeed use servlets for RTMPT, AMF, and in the future XML Ajax style communication. But, Red5 as a whole isn't a servlet, this is just one small piece. Just wanted to be clear about that. ;-) -Chris On 7/6/06, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure you can use flash and ajax together. There are good facilities for > communicating between them. > > What you think is "easy" is highly subjective. I suspect for you what is > easy is not doing flash, and in that regard I am sure there is some simple > code samples for showing how to play an audio stream from a server. I am not > sure what examples are on the macromedia site. Also, I would suggest joining > the red5 mailing list as I would be that someone there has some simple code > you can steal. > > But make no mistake, you are, fairly quickly going to have to gain a > reasonable working knowledge of flash to do this. > > Regard > > Hank > > On 7/6/06, Mick Knutson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there an easy flash solution to get up-and-running, so I focus my > inital development, and creating administration services before a flash > client? > > > > And can I use Flash & Ajax together? > > > > > > > > > > On 7/6/06, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Well, this is a flash list... but that said, flash really is the only > viable option. No one really uses java applets on the client side. And flash > is built for doing exactly this. > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > Hank > > > > > > > > > On 7/6/06, Mick Knutson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Can you recommend a player to use? > > > > Do you use Flash and Applets? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/6/06, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Just to be clear, for what you are trying to do, a media server is > exactly what you want. Your files are large and you dont want to have people > downloading the whole file to listen to five minutes of something. > > > > > > > > > > You should consider using Red5 which is all written in Java and is, > as I understand it, a servlet. I would not use a database. You should > develop a system that allows you to install your files where the files are > assigned unique ID numbers and those numbers map to a record in your > database where you can store whatever descriptive information. > > > > > > > > > > I do something similar, and I actually dont store everything in one > directory, but in subdirectorys based on the ID number. This is kind of a > hashing thing for files just to give the file system a break by not putting > a huge number of files in one directory. > > > > > > > > > > The way your media server will work is fairly straight forward. Your > code will say it wants to play a file at a given path, and the server will > play it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > Hank > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/6/06, Mick Knutson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I am creating an internet radio site. It has hundreds of hours of > historical music, and new music all the time. Hopefully I can somehow stream > on-air shows, or concerts on location to the site. I also want to > eventually hook up video from the on-site concert feeds. > > > > > > > > > > > > I also want to use what I know, which is JBoss/J2EE/Java for as > much as possible. > > > > > > I just do not understand how this server will be hooked. But the > explaination you gave makes sense from what the media server will do. > > > > > > > > > > > > So, will I store media as flat files on my server or in my DB? > > > > > > Will there be shared access to those files for things like > administration of the media? > > > > > > Do you have any achitectural diagram showing how all the pieces > live together? Such as the communication from my Business objects to Red5, > then how the streams communicate with my UI (Applets or Flash). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/6/06, hank williams < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > a media server FMS or Red5, allows you to fast forward, jump to > a particular point in a file, and not download the whole file if the user > starts watching. There are also intelligent things that can be done to serve > the correct content based on the bandwidth. But a media server is not the > right solution for every problem. Progressive download (what you call > downloading from your server) is totally appropriate for lots of > applications. It really just depends on exactly what you need to do. But if > you arent missing any features its likely you dont need it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > Hank > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/6/06, Mick Knutson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If I have a webserver, with files on the server harddrive, and > whimpy player, what will I need a special media server? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > > > DJ MICK > > > > > > > http://www.djmick.com > > > > > > > http://www.myspace.com/mickknutson > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > osflash mailing list > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > osflash mailing list > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > DJ MICK > > > > > > http://www.djmick.com > > > > > > http://www.myspace.com/mickknutson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > osflash mailing list > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > osflash mailing list > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > --- > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > DJ MICK > > > > http://www.djmick.com > > > > http://www.myspace.com/mickknutson > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > osflash mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > osflash mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > --- > > Thanks > > > > DJ MICK > > http://www.djmick.com > > http://www.myspace.com/mickknutson > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
