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Damjan --- Donnacha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been casually following Red5's progress for > quite a while but > many of the technical conversations are over my head > and, although I'm > excited about the potential, I'm unclear on what, > exactly, Red5 is and > is not be able to do. > > During my online travels, I came across the > quirkiest Flash-video > coding website you'll ever find, run by an English > guy who calls > himself Mr Webcam: > > http://mr-webcam.no-ip.co.uk/ > > Apart from the 16 live webcams running 24/7 > (including his "World > Famous Parrot Cam"), he cranks out little FMS apps > and, more recently, > Wowza Media Server apps (like Red5, Wowza is a > Java-based media server > albeit a proprietary, commercial one). > > Mr Webcam's website is visually crude to say the > least and somewhat > confusing but don't let that put you off exploring - > it is fascinating > to see the way in which he has evolved the various > possible > permutations of the basic webcam concepts and his > enthusiasm for > webcam technology is infectious. > > One of the Wowza apps absolutely blew my mind > because, although he is > using it as a guestbook, it has all the basic > functionality I need for > an altogether different use that I'm very excited > about. > > The app is a simple video guestbook were the public > can enter their > name, flash asks for permission to send data from > their webcam to the > website and a video is recorded to the server and > added to a list of > entries that can be viewed by anyone: > > http://mr-webcam.no-ip.co.uk/wowza-tests/guestbook/index.php > > There is also a password protected page from which > the admin can > delete video entries: > > http://mr-webcam.no-ip.co.uk/wowza-tests/guestbook/index2.php > > Although you would think this is fairly > straightforward stuff, I > hadn't seen it actually done before, at least not in > such an > accessible form and, believe me, I have scoured the > Web looking for > something like this. > > > MY QUESTION: > > As evidenced by the demo on his site, Wowza Server > does a good job of > handling this guestbook app - would Red5, in its > current stage of > development, be able to handle the same task > reliably and efficiently > in terms of memory leaks etc? > > Wowza's free license allows 10 concurrent streams > (which, hmmm, I > think, means I could have 10 people being videoed at > the same time) - > if I dedicated an entire server to it , roughly how > many people could > I expect Red5 to handle at the same time? > > The server: > > Intel P4 2.8Ghz 533 FSB > � 2048MB DDR RAM > � 80GB IDE Hard Drive > � 200GB IDE Hard Drive > � OS - Centos 5 (RHEL 5) > � Bandwidth: 1000GB > > I would really appreciate any and all advice > because, obviously, I'm > in way over my head here but I really want to get my > idea up and > running because I think it will make a big > difference to a lot of > people. > > When I next get a free evening, I intend to work > through the 21 Red5 > video tutorials at flashextensions.com but, for now, > you guys can let > me know if I'm on roughly the right track. > > Thanks, > > Donnacha > > _______________________________________________ > Red5 mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
