Snowy greetings, highly appreciated red5 community, in our finnish-german project cooperation NeoArena (check out the northernmost pin on the Frappr map) I am about to integrate Red5 into our so far VideoLAN Open Source based non-commercial streaming portal.
I will at least use Red5 to play back a demo playlist of our recorded material. But as we offer live broadcasts from conferences, concerts, ..., it would be highly beloved to have the possibility to stream live into Red5. We are only talking about the Flash 7 Sorenson codec here. I know that Red5 so far handles streams only on RTMP-level. But as sure an RTMP-Encoding is done when streaming an flv, we tried pushing the flv-output of ffmpeg to a fifo and streaming that from the server. Perhaps this piping approach is a little too narrowly Linux-minded and hence Red5 threw an exception about illegal seek from the FLVReader class. Is there a possibility to get around that with few effort? I know that here was talk of implementing fancy stuff inside Red5 using pipes,very interesting, but that seems at least to be somewhat further away. Has anyone found a currently working approach? I tried it with something like Virtual Camera to get a WindowsMedia-Stream into a Flash Client, but this piece of software does not support streaming, not so nice anyway, especially when it comes to the audio codec. And I really don't want to put the stream out to a taperecorder/camcorder and loop it back into a Flash client per Firewire. I mean, there is always the possibility to buy something expensive from On2, but that is out of range at the moment. PS: As being in the home country of Santa (Only 200 km from his house on the arctic circle), I can tell that he loves Red5 too. First he liked only the colour, but when I explained him what it's all about he meant with Red5 being 1.0 he could well save quite some Christmas presents for those needy web-developers next year or so. I told him he could put the RTMP-Specs from Adobe under the Red5 Christmas tree, or he might let a wonder happen by making On2 VP6 go Open Source. But to that he replied he would have to call his lawyers first. Corrupted world. Sorry, for my not very mailing list-friendly narrative style. Thanks, Alexander Bethke _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
