For those of us who have - or are familiar with it - a SlingBox is a pretty cool piece of technology. Although you're kind of limited to watching whatever you have on your TiVo or is broadcast on your system. That might be a good example of something to look at and build upon?
I sort of like the idea of distributed content sharing - whether that's from your satellite television at home, or it is something you create on your own from a cell phone, web camera, or video camera. Rather than aggregating all of this up to a single source (ala YouTube and Google Video) keep it local and share it with your friends, within the limitations of your available upstream bandwidth. SlingBox, for example, only lets one outside connection at a time - probably for more practical reasons that stem from more than one person "sharing the remote" at a time. However, a "smarter" DVR that can play multiple streams to multiple clients is exactly what Red5 is able to do. Although the effort involved in converting video into a FLV file is a bit time consuming and manual. Nate SlingBox's site - http://www.slingmedia.com/ On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, hank williams wrote: > But why not just do VOD? If you have scheduled programming then you > have to have a DVR type recorder, but if you have VOD then people can > watch when they want, right? Or am I missing something? > > Hank > > On 11/25/06, John Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After playing with Red5 I have been thinking of some more > > "out-of-the-box" ideas to utilize its' capabilities. > > > > I wanted to throw some of these ideas out there. > > > > There seems to be a growth in Web based "TV" programing like ManiaTV ( > > http://www.maniatv.com) which has regularly scheduled "broadcasts" of > > shows. > > > > So I was thinking of creating (in a prototype) a fictitious Web TV station > > with regularly scheduled Red5 based streams of different "shows". The idea > > is one could create their content, then put it out on a Red5 server for > > consumption on a scheduled basis. I was going to use opensymphony's Quartz > > to build a server side dynamic scheduler of content. > > > > The kicker here would be building a client based DVR or Flash scheduler > > that a user could pick their shows to watch them later . This seems like a > > great application that fits into Red5 sweet spot? > > > > Am I reinventing the wheel? Thoughts? > > > > .j > > -- > > *Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. > > * > > - Henry Ford > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Red5 mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
