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It doesn’t seem that long (for some of us at least) but 2017 marks the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone. The past decade has seen sweeping shifts in how we communicate with each other and interact with our surroundings. While the 20th century ended with the innovation of the internet, the 21st has brought… Continue reading It’s a WebRTC World

When I was young, my mother (and The Rolling Stones) often told me “You can’t always get what you want”. Come to think of it, my mom (and Mick Jagger) still tells me that. A cornerstone of parenting philosophy, this concept applies equally to life decisions, demands for a second slice of cake or even… Continue reading Network, Resolution and Preset Dimensions

Have you ever bought a tv with the very latest in super-premium, mind-blowing display technology only to realize that it’s almost too cutting edge? You turn it on and it’s amazing! Any more detail and you’d be seeing into another dimension. Then your internet takes a nap and you realize that even though you have… Continue reading Is 4K Practical?

Live video streaming is taking off like crazy, and you want to get in on this new technology by building your own cat streaming app. "Periscope for Cats will be the next big thing" you say. You start looking into what’s out there for a software developer to build on, and immediately are inundated with… Continue reading WebRTC vs. RTMP – Which Protocol Should You Choose for Your Live Streaming App?

March is traditionally the month where people start breaking their New Year Resolutions. Not Red5 Pro. We’ve persevered to reach our goal of improving the performance of our WebRTC implementation. While some abandoned their treadmills, we slimmed down our CPU usage to make Red5 Pro more scalable. As home gyms (still unassembled) were hidden in… Continue reading Red5 Pro Release 3.0 – WebRTC Scaling

Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, today’s workforce has become increasingly focused and specialized (especially in the tech field). Sometimes, it can appear that you have just two options; learn a whole lot about one thing or learn a tiny bit about lots of things. Either way, it’s a fact that you can’t do… Continue reading Stream It Your Way

Yesterday, Amazon Web Services experienced an outage in its eastern U.S. region. So that, quite obviously, caused a stir. It was a blackout. Like, medieval, Dark Ages blackout. Everything was broken, people were crying, there was looting… OK. Maybe it wasn’t that bad but it sure did mess things up. As such, some developers could… Continue reading More Time to Save Money

Homonym: one of a group of words that share the same pronunciation but have different meanings. Take for example, the word “port”. It could mean a place where ships take shelter, the left side of a vessel, a type of wine or, most importantly, a communication channel or endpoint on a computer or network. To… Continue reading Changing Port Numbers

“We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication” – Dr. Bob Moorehead That quote (often falsely attributed to the Dalai Lama) summarizes one of the most intriguing paradoxes of the modern age; what do we do with all our technology? How can we use the… Continue reading What Is IoTV and Why You Should Care

Dear Red5 Pro Community, A long time ago, we started an open source community dedicated to a single goal: to make it easy for the world to create high-quality streaming environments for an unlimited number of applications, platforms and use cases. We’ve come a long way since we first launched our beta in October of… Continue reading New Year Changes