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We’ve been hard at work on a number of features including WebRTC, improved APIs, performance/latency increases on the mobile SDK. Since my focus has been on the Red5 Pro API (which is going to support WebSockets in next week’s release), I’ve been spending a ton of time on WebSockets. We were missing a lot of… Continue reading Updated WebSockets Documentation for Red5 Pro

Quick! Get it while you can! Our $55/month price is going away soon. Based on the number of features and the level of support we are providing to our customers we’ve made the hard decision to raise our prices. Starting in August, our monthly subscription will be increased to $119 which gets you one server… Continue reading Price Increase Coming Next Month–Lock In Your $55/Month Rate NOW!!!

So…what exactly is IoT and what is the fundamental purpose of such technology? The Internet of Things is one of those buzzwords people like to drop into conversation for effect, even though most probably don’t know what it means. After a bit of searching myself, I found this Forbes article which provides a spot-on definition:… Continue reading Top 10 Emerging IoT Platforms

Our team has been hard at work, and we are excited to announce version 1.3.0 of Red5 Pro. For this release we focused on one of the most requested features, a new REST based API for the server. This new API allows any app to access all the stats from the server, manipulate live streams,… Continue reading Release 1.3.0 – Featuring New Red5 API

The 4th of July gives those of us in the U.S. a chance to reflect upon the creation of America and the foundation of values it was built upon. We at Red5 Pro have been thinking about our ideals as well. Since our roots are grounded in Boston, it’s only natural that a little bit… Continue reading Freedom, FDR and Red5 Pro: 4th of July Edition

You may have heard of WebSockets and how powerful they can be. What are they? Essentially WebSockets allow you to open an interactive connection between the server and the client in HTML5 apps. This allows you to make API calls without everything having to go through the server. Quite useful! Especially since this is a… Continue reading Using WebSockets with Red5

We talk a lot about live-streaming – so what? Why is it so important and (most importantly) what makes Red5 Pro special? Our software was created to give you the flexibility to do what you want, how you want to do it. From using GoPro cameras, streaming technical instructions, and challenging how “live” your television… Continue reading So What’s Red5 Pro and Why is it Important to Live-streaming?

Customer Support is very important to us! A large part of that entails answering your questions. No, I cannot give you any bank account numbers, Nigerian prince or not. However, here are ten questions we can answer (and frequently have): Can I set up a chat function? Using our two-way example application for HTML5, Android… Continue reading Top Ten Frequently Asked Questions

We are excited to announce the new 1.2.0 release of Red5 Pro. In addition to quite a few bug fixes, this version adds the ability to deploy clusters on top of AWS or Google Compute Engine that automatically expand and contract depending on the load. We call this feature Autoscaling. Autoscaling is a huge feature… Continue reading Red5 Pro 1.2.0 Release – Now With Cloud-Based Autoscaling

Earlier this week Tsahi Levent-Levi wrote up a great post on how he thinks h.264 is the protocol of choice for WebRTC apps moving forward. There’s so much that’s true about what he wrote, and I tend to agree on almost every point he makes. h.264 is supported in hardware encoders for just about every… Continue reading WebRTC: The Delivery Protocol For Live Streams Of The Future