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It’s 2018; the start of a New Year and new beginnings. Sooo… how many resolutions have you broken already? It’s more than that though. The New Year is a time for reflection as well and 2017 continued to display the importance of live streaming and it’s continued impact on our lives. Latency was important last… Continue reading Red5 Pro: Reflections and Projections

Some wait for the New Year to improve themselves, but we’re starting early. Announcing the 4.3.0 server release. Speeding up connection times and optimizing our autoscaling solution. Please take a look at our release notes: Red5 Pro Server: Release 4.3.0 – 21 December, 2017 Fixed – Can’t publish from Android browsers that don’t send profile… Continue reading Red5 Pro Server Release Version 4.3.0

You may have noticed that there has been a bit of news coverage about net neutrality, at least for those of us in the US. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should treat all online content equally without giving preference to particular sources. There’s been quite a bit of worrying over the… Continue reading The Good Things about Net Neutrality Repeal

You should live stream. Everybody else is doing it. Facebook, YouTube, and all the other cool kids. Of course, just because it’s popular doesn’t mean it’s good. Maybe you think it’s a trend, or perhaps you just want to go out on your own. Thing is, the crowd is right. Why Live Stream? Peer pressure… Continue reading 4 Reasons You Need Low Latency Live Streaming

It’s the Holiday Season, and we’re celebrating a new update to our mobile SDK. The newest release adds support for iOS Simulators in Xcode and mute/unmute support for Android devices. For a full list of features and fixes, please check out our release notes:#Red5 Pro Mobile SDK:### [Release 4.2.0 – 11 December, 2017](https://red5pro.com/docs/streaming/releasenotes.html) iOS SDK:… Continue reading Red5 Pro 4.2.0 Mobile SDK Release

There’s quite a bit of confusion out there regarding CDNs. We get many questions about adding or connecting a CDN with Red5 Pro. The truth is, you really don’t have to do anything special at all. What We Mean by CDN Otherwise known as a content delivery network, a CDN system employs a distributed network… Continue reading What is a CDN and How Does it Work

Do you enjoy waiting? Of course not. Nobody does. Which is exactly why no one likes latency. Before we get too far, what is latency? Latency, according to how we like to define it, is the time it takes video (captured by the camera) to travel across the internet to actually appear to the person… Continue reading Why is My Latency so High: 9 Reasons Why

Just in time for Thanksgiving, we are thankful to our developers for producing Red5 Pro version 4.2.0! We’ve added mute/unmute ability for WebRTC along with a bunch of other improvements and bug fixes. Please check out our release notes:#Red5 Pro Server:### [Release 4.2.0 – 20 November, 2017](https://red5pro.com/docs/server/releasenotes.html) Added transcode support for Android VP8 WebRTC subscribe/publish… Continue reading Red5 Pro Version 4.2.0

Despite what we would have you believe, there’s more to life than low-latency. I mean, obviously, there’s scaling too. Perhaps you are streaming out a live concert to millions of fans, or broadcasting an international political summit to thousands of concerned citizens from all across the world. Do you think a single, scrawny little server… Continue reading More Than Low Latency

Slow Engine – Slow Product. Running an application with high latency is like putting a moped engine in a race-car. No matter how well the body is built, it will be going all but nowhere. The effort required to overcome inferior building materials will be costly and time-consuming. Even worse, it just won’t work as… Continue reading 3 Reasons You Need Real Time Video Software