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In the interest of continually improving Red5 Pro, we just put up a new version of the SDKs and Server. This release has bug fixes and major performance enhancements. We recommend that you update your servers and your apps with the latest to take advantage of these gains. Stay tuned for the next release with… Continue reading Red5 Pro Release 1.1

On Tuesday afternoon, video blogging pioneer, writer and startup investor Steve Garfield and Red5 Pro’s very own Chris Allen (with his stallion of a greyhound and fan favorite, Rye-Guy) did a Facebook Live session to discuss the trends and implications of the live streaming revolution. Among many topics discussed, Chris and Steve covered everything from… Continue reading Facebook Live with Video Blogging Pioneer Steve Garfield & Red5’s Chris Allen

As Twitter and Facebook duke it out for live streaming dominance with their apps, there are other, more niche players that are showing tremendous promise. We took a look at what’s out today, and which ones have the potential to make it big. The trend we are seeing is that niche markets and highly specific… Continue reading The Top Ten Emerging Live Streaming Apps

Server running? Check. Video streaming? Affirmative. Recorded files? Hmm . . . they should be here. Streaming video is awesome, but what if I want to preserve my three hour live cat cam for years to come? Well with a few snippets of code you can save your video to last unto antiquity (or at… Continue reading Saving Live Streams – Recording, a Quick How To Guide

So you’ve got the Red5 Pro Server up and running on your Android device and your application is ready to stream. Ready, set, publish! Uh oh, the camera is upside down! Not quite the dramatic effect you were looking for. What’s up with that? Some manufacturers are now physically installing the camera upside down to… Continue reading Don’t Flip Out, Flip Your Camera!

I know what you are thinking. We probably couldn’t have picked a worse day (April Fools Day) to release. But we aren’t letting that stop us. While Google literally and figuratively dropped the mic today, we instead have actually improved the mic with echo cancellation for Android. Not only that, we’ve improved performance on both… Continue reading Red5 Pro 1.0 – It’s No Joke!

As a developer on the Red5 Pro team and a contributor to the open source project I’ve seen a lot of folks struggle with implementing video on demand experiences using Red5. The reality is it’s really easy. The problem is that it’s just not well documented, so I figured I should write this post to… Continue reading Video On Demand (VOD) with Red5 Pro

As one of our senior server-side developers on the Red5 Pro team, I get to play around with our code to figure out what other cool stuff we can build with our server. I was helping a Red5 Pro user look at packets inside some FLV files and I realized the technique is not well… Continue reading Add Dynamic Content to Your Live Streams – Part 1 Examining Packets

The Balancing Act of Stream Quality One question we get consistently from developers using Red5 Pro is: what are the best settings for my stream to create the best quality experience? While we wish we could just have one short answer to this question, it is complex, and ultimately becomes a balancing act. Chris Wendt… Continue reading Stream Settings for Live Broadcasts – Balancing Latency and Video Quality

Time to go Live at Scale! You’re about to launch a big marketing push for your live video streaming app. Your marketing team is confident that the event will attract somewhere between 1,000 (worst case) and 20,000 (best case) active, or concurrent, subscribers. Or even more challenging, what happens if your silent launch somehow attracts… Continue reading Clustering-How to Scale Red5 Pro