Hi Matthew,
could you create 2 new tickets on http://jira.red5.org for the issues
you described? It sounds like issues a lot of people could have when
they start using red5.
> There are 2 major issues I am having right off the bat:
>
> First, our mp3s are stored on several file servers and we mount them
> to our streaming servers via NFS. I want to be able to simply
> symlink /streams to the top directory and access the files by
> stream.play('mp3:/path/to/file'). I know there is another way to
> specify streams directories, but this is a simpler solution for me.
> The problem with this is that, at server startup, the server seems to
> be trying to map the contents of this directory--which pretty much
> borks it since our mp3 library is a few terabytes.
>
> The way I worked around it was to remove the symlink before startup
> and then replace it once the server has started. I can do this with
> a simple shell script but would like a better solution. Has anyone
> else run into this problem? Would specifying the NFS mount points as
> custom stream folders get around the problem or would I have the same
> issue of hanging the startup?
>
> Second, we are having an issue with mp3 files with images in them.
> my theory at this point is that the server is seeing a set of ones
> (eg. 0xff 0xfb) in the image and interpreting it as the sync bits for
> the first mp3 frame. I need to get in and take a look at what's
> going on here. Is this a known issue at this point? This will be a
> big sticking point in whether or not we decide to implement.
It's the first time I heard about it.
>
> I do realize that red5 is in alpha, but it seems to be pretty close
> to being production ready--at least in terms of mp3 streaming. We'd
> be willing to do a bit of testing and development on this and will
> start stress-testing it next week with hundreds or thousands of
> concurrent connections.
thanks,
Thijs
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