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The new year is all about self-improvement and looking forward. As such, our developers caught the spirit and churned out a new release for both server and mobile SDK. They improved the performance of our autoscale solution and load balancing stream manager, added Flash to HLS audio support (so you can video call your parents… Continue reading Red5 Pro Release 2.1.0 – Improved Autoscaling

We’ve talked about the advantages that autoscaling provides for guiding your app to internet greatness, but there’s always more to talk about. Our CEO Chris Allen continued his conversation with Bizety Technologies and explained not just what auto-scaling does, but how it works. To see if he revealed too many trade secrets, read the full… Continue reading Autoscaling Explained

Soldiers and poets; ordinarily the two occupy different worlds. That is, until live-streaming gets involved. Thanks to the extraordinary developers at Good Company they have enabled a soldier, blinded in combat, to once again connect to his surroundings. Wearing a pair of WiFi enabled iVue glasses and earphones, Major Scott Smiley sent a live-stream to… Continue reading A New Kind of Vision

Recently, our CEO Chris Allen sat down with Ernie Regalado, the Editor-in-Chief of Bizety Technologies, to continue their discussion about Red5’s relentless and clandestine progress towards super-giant status. You can read about the full article here.

WebRTC is fast becoming the default protocol for low latency video transmission in the web browser. People are building all kinds of innovative apps that leverage the technology in creative ways. But many people think of WebRTC as just a Peer to Peer (P2P) technology, and while that’s technically correct (you always need at least… Continue reading Top Five Use Cases Where P2P with WebRTC Falls Short

We did it! After months of work and many, many hours of coding, testing and (admittedly) a bit of hair pulling, we have fused the connectivity of WebRTC to the streaming capabilities of Red5 Pro! Adding to our already extensive list of integrations, WebRTC allows for cross-platform, real-time communications without plugins. It even allows for… Continue reading Achievement Unlocked – WebRTC

At Red5 Pro, we’re not the type of people content with a participation trophy. We stand by the quality of our software and strive to get ahead of the crowd. So we were honored when Ernie Regalado took notice. As the Editor-in-Chief of Bizety Technologies, he was kind enough to write-up a post about us… Continue reading A Super Giant in the Making

One second doesn’t sound like much but a lot can happen in such a small timespan. In one second a [hummingbird’s heart](http://www.worldofhummingbirds.com/facts.php) beats 21 times, a [baseball pitch](http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/62816.html) zips 132 feet and [the human brain](http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/163051-simulating-1-second-of-human-brain-activity-takes-82944-processors) completes the work of 82,944 processors. So maybe a second is more important than you thought. Recently, Wowza Media Systems… Continue reading Red5 Pro Wins on Low Latency

Dealing With Interruptions on iOS Devices We all deal with inter- What? Not now, I’m in the middle of something. . . Sorry, let’s try that again; we all deal with interruptions. From chatty co-workers to adorable cat video distractions, something always manages to turn that five-minute task into an all day endeavor. When an… Continue reading Dealing With Interruptions on iOS Devices

The weather is turning cooler here in New England, and as usual our team has been hard at work. We are excited to announce version 1.4.0 of Red5 Pro Server. For this release we focused on Video on Demand (VOD). The new server release supports recording and retrieving VOD content via Amazon S3 cloud storage.… Continue reading Red5 Pro Release 1.4.0 – Expanded Video On Demand