On 7/11/06, electroteque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >> Ideally we need to build a VOD server side playlist when a webcam is
> >> not showing and then when a webcam is on, it will switch to the
> >> stream-name of the webcam from the playlist and update all the
> >> clients,
> >> and then when it stops broadcasting and disconnects it will return
> >> back
> >> the VOD playlist.
> >>
> > This seems doable.
>
> Is there a current example of this atm to setup a VOD playlist stream ?
> Im pretty sure there was one there i cant find again loading files from
> a directory. Is there a way we could extend that for an xml playlist to
> rotate playing the VOD content and then switch to the webcam url
> playlist node when it becomes available. I see this might be the way it
> can work, however how could the application load the stream from
> another application point being for the webcam , if that made any sense
> ?
>

The example you are looking for is the demo we did for the Open Source
Flash conference held last October. It's called ofla_demo.

> >
> >> The live stream also needs to be archived on the server during that
> >> period, is there any application examples in RED5 which shows how to
> >> create server side playlists and archive live streams ?
> >
> > Not exact examples of this, but there are plenty in the distribution
> > that can get you started. Feel free to try it out and ask more
> > specific questions on the list and I'm sure people can help you get
> > there.
>
> I see stuff about recording, it seems similar to what we need to do, i
> think its via ffmpeg ??

You don't need ffmpeg for recording unless you need to convert the
FLVs to another format. There are examples of recording included with
the server.

> >>
> > We are working on security and these types of concerns in the 0.6
> > release. Please tell us more about what you are looking for, and
> > hopefully we can add it.
>
> I'll probably revisit security concerns when we start on the VOD
> project so ill return to this question later.
>

Good! Definitely get back to us though. We need to hear from the
community on what is needed in real life applications.

> >
> > Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. I am glad however, that you are
> > considering using Red5.
>
> Yes, it is rather unfortunate, however we may be looking currently at
> purchasing flex builder2 off them (unfortunately) as the plugin
> versions dont seem to load on eclipse 3.1 on osx ;) I can still use the
> free SDK compiler and ANT, but we need to build a broadcaster app
> interface fairly quickly, so could lend on its designer, which will
> interface with custom AS classes/packages etc. I will probably revisit
> my previous workings with mtasc and swfmill however im nervy abouts its
> future versions not supporting AS3 rather a specialized psuedo
> language.
>

Yeah, I'm bummed about the lack of Flex Builder for Macintosh. They
are working on a version though. I've heard that there will be a
public beta for us in October.

> >>
> >> Let me know, and sorry about the essay thanks.
> >>
> >
> > Well I appreciate your well thought out questions. Perhaps others can
> > learn from this as well. That's the whole idea behind the mailing list
> > anyway.
>
> OK, not a problem, see Ive already begun to respect the people on this
> list, as I got responses to a fairly detailed technical essay,
> something not even the techs at adobe could bother to come up with.
>
> I have extensive knowledge in the windows media side of things, aswell
> as real streaming and quicktime so maybe if I manage to replicate what
> most of them do into applications I could document it and also share
> knowledge about what they do in general. However I hear there are
> already modules becoming available to achieve most things the windows
> media server is capable of.
>
Yeah, that would be great to have some documentation from the
perspective of Windows Media Server users moving to Red5.

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