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Tsahi Levent-Levi wrote a great post today on the state of live broadcast applications that leverage WebRTC. He correctly identified that many people use WebRTC for the broadcaster, but few use it for the subscribers/viewers of the live streams. HLS and MPEG-DASH introduce latency, while RTMP uses Flash; none of these are great for the… Continue reading WebRTC Live Streaming: Why latency is important.

This past Saturday, Chris Allen, Co-Founder and CEO of Red5 and live streaming guru Ryan A. Bell, founder of the Periscope Summit and partner at the video consulting firm Backlamp, hosted a Blab broadcast discussing the democratization of live streaming and the huge implications of future use cases. Here are the five key trends Chris… Continue reading Five Trends for the Future of Live Streaming

I’m excited to be speaking with Live streaming gurus Ryan Bell and Alex Kahn tomorrow at 11AM EST, 4PM GMT. We will be doing a live broadcast on Blab talking about future live streaming platforms and how we are democratizing video for all developers with Red5 Pro. – This live stream is over. Ryan and Alex… Continue reading Blab Broadcast: Future Live Streaming Platforms With Ryan Bell & Alex Kahn

We wanted to let you know that we have just released some big updates to the Red5 Pro Server and Streaming SDKs! We’ve included the release notes, the Server and SDK downloads, and the link to our Github repos with the updated examples and sample apps. We hope this will help overcome some of the… Continue reading New Red5 Pro Release With Rebuffering!

HLS, or HTTP Live Streaming is a video streaming format first introduced by Apple in May, 2009. It’s a format that breaks streams into small file-based segments made available for download over HTTP. It now is a widely supported format for viewing streams in almost real time. I say almost only because the protocol, by… Continue reading What YOU Need to Know About HLS: Pros and Cons

Reflecting on 2015 and what we’ve built over the last couple of years, I started thinking about Red5 Pro and the reasons why we built it in the first place. So I figured I should write a post. Why did we spend so much time and energy building this thing? Not only did we see… Continue reading Why We Built Red5 Pro: An End-To-End Solution

A lot of developers have been asking us detailed questions about recording streams using Red5 Pro. The one thing that comes up most frequently is how to create an MP4 file for easy playback on mobile devices. While you can use our SDK to playback the recorded file as is (Red5 records in FLV format),… Continue reading How-To: Converting Recorded Files to MP4 for Seamless Playback via Red5 Pro

We have been working hard on a number of features that we are super excited about including clustering and HLS support. You can get the new release here. Make sure to be signed in with your account first. Also, expect new SDKs to follow soon as well. Cheers! RED5 PRO SERVER 0.2 RELEASE NOTES This… Continue reading New Red5 Pro Server 0.2 Release Featuring Clustering and HLS

Interested in getting up and running with our client-side SDKs? Our CTO Dominick Accattato just finished a great video tutorial on how to set up iOS streaming with the Red5 Pro server in six easy steps, all within a matter of minutes. In this example Dominick demonstrates how to stream from iOS to the web… Continue reading Video Tutorial–How to Create an iOS Streaming Example in Minutes

Don’t take this the wrong way; while we are thrilled about WebRTC and its potential to open up live streaming and communication within browsers, we want to pose the following question: do you actually need WebRTC for your use case? After much analysis, what we’ve found based on talking to our customers is that the… Continue reading Do You Actually Need WebRTC?