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You’ve done all your research, analyzed the match-ups and laid out your perfect lineup. Your fantasy team roster is looking great! No frenzied, last-minute shuffling of players for you. All that remains is to sit back, grab a beverage of choice and watch your games as the roster deadline ticks down. Then you see it.… Continue reading Too Late or Too Latent?

Parking meters, deadlines, anniversaries; if not addressed within the appropriate timeframe, those things may cause you considerable problems (some more than others). Similarly, if your hosted server goes over a certain capacity there could be a financial consequence as well. We recently shared Amazon’s announcement regarding their new pricing model, as they are now going… Continue reading AWS Pricing Changes; What it Means for You

Sub-second latency is great, but Red5 Pro wasn’t always that fast. In a recent interview with Boston Voyager, our CEO Chris Allen discusses the team effort needed to launch Red5 Pro. From open source to self-funded startup, to transforming the company business model with venture capital, Chris has piloted Red5 Pro through an always evolving… Continue reading Red5 Pro: Past, Present and Future

We are proud to announce version 4.0.0 featuring WebRTC support in Safari 11 and iOS 11, a complete re-optimization of HTML (including playback controls) and support for saving locally on iOS and Android devices. Of course, there are are a bunch of other improvements and bug fixes. Please check out our release notes: Red5 Pro… Continue reading Red5 Pro 4.0.0 Release

Scaling Challenges in WebRTC Live Streaming 1:1 != 1:1,000,000 When it comes to WebRTC, size matters. People have this assumption that if you can run a 1:1 video call then getting to a 3-way video call is just as easy. And well, if that’s the case, then 4-way video call shouldn’t be far behind. And… Continue reading Guest Post: Tsahi Levent-Levi – WebRTC Scaling Challenges

There’s a ridiculous amount of money being thrown around the sports world. The big cable titans were the ones that traditionally clashed in the economic sports arena. However, with the much-discussed trend of “cable cutters” getting rid of their cable box once and for all, online streaming services are becoming more and more prevalent. Accordingly,… Continue reading 3 Reasons Why We Need Better Live Sports Streaming Software

We’ve all done it: tried helping someone only to make things worse. As the old saying goes, “Too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth”. When a bunch of people are working on the same thing, all those little tweaks and adjustments can add up to disaster. This is especially true when it comes… Continue reading Why Red5 Pro is Best Run on its Own Server

What do Lumberjacks and developers have in common? Why, logging, of course. Now the logs referred to in this post deal primarily with the computer type, no chainsaw required (depending upon your levels of frustration). In our most recent addition to the Red5 Pro Developer Series, CTO Dominick Accattato covers how to enable logging and… Continue reading Logging: Not Just For Lumberjacks

Fake users are bad. At the best they produce spam, but at the worst, they can be a security threat. You don’t want someone else jumping onto your platform and pretending to be you. Remember what happened the last time you forgot to log out of Facebook when you borrowed your friend’s computer? Well, let’s… Continue reading Simple Authentication Walkthrough

Always striving to improve documentation, Red5 Pro has added a new Developer Guides category to their docs section. For the first installment, we have detailed our server-side APIs. Specifically, they cover scopes, streams, state management and plugin development. By following these manuals, you can leverage the powerful API tools of Red5 Pro to build your… Continue reading New Red5 Pro Documentation