That's an interesting idea. I've considered a sort of rtmp2p approach
to sharing video (pre-recorded though) with my friends. But in my app,
there's no aggregation. In your case, if I'm not mistaken, you would
have to publish the webcam stream to each person running Red5, but the
upstream bandwidth of your community members probably wouldn't be
enough to serve more than a few users with any sort of quality, so I
don't think the, ah, rtmp2p approach is really feasible for your use
case.
On the up side, you don't really need to rent time on special media
servers... A lot of hosting companies won't let you install an app
like red 5, but you're in a large urban area, no? So it may be
possible to find one that does, or better yet since it seems that you
are some sort of non-profit organization, it might be possible to get a
hosting company to donate a rackspace and some bandwidth. I would
check around to see if anyone is looking for the write-off.
If you don't absolutely have to run your own application, you could
always use a free service like Stickam or Userplane (kinda free). Good
luck!
Best,
Dirk Neely
On Feb 20, 2007, at 6:09 PM, NCSSI organization wrote:
HI !
I just started working with the java based Red 5 flash media server.
My concept application is to webcast streaming webcam for our local
civic groups to enable a "virtual" Town Hall auditorium for "on-line"
meetings, presentations , round table discussions, etc.
As I want to avoid renting time on special media servers, if someone
has knowledge of how I might aggregate bandwidth , possibility by
"mesh" networking computers within our community with an installed Red
5 media server on their computers .... acting as
repeating/distribution nodes.
Any help with this would be great!
Thanks!
.... also .... if someone can explain the definition of the following
and maybe give an example:
Red 5 "re-broadcasting" and "remoting".
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