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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

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