As it’s been a little while, we wanted to update our roadmap. Like we said before, the software development timeline experiences accelerations and delays depending upon client need or sometimes dealing with updates made by one of the tech giants that we all depend on.

Of course, the further out on the roadmap that you go, the more likely it can change. We add new items based on what you, our customers need. If you are looking for something specific that we currently don’t support, just let us know. We can often accelerate features with paid support plans.

RED5 PRO ROAD MAP – 2019

5.6.0 – SERVER

ANTICIPATED JULY 2019

SERVER

UNIFIED RESTREAMER

• New Plugin to support IP Camera, Drones, Bodycams, Broadcast Industry Equipment restreaming and other IoT devices over RTSP and MPEG-TS

UNIFY SDP

• Not a public feature, but it’s an internal refactor to utilize SDP parsing across multiple protocols (RTSP, WebRTC)

CASTAWAY

GCP Support SM Autoscaling

Monitoring WebSocket connections through stream manager API

5.7.0 – PENDING RELEASE: MOBILE SDK

ANTICIPATED AUGUST 2019

SDK

HARDWARE ACCELERATION:

• Will increase performance of the SDK. Needed for 4k video.

360 PLAYER:

• Player allowing for streaming from 360 cameras.

DECOUPLING SHARED OBJECTS – MOBILE:

• Mobile SDK feature making it so that a Shared Object doesn’t have to be tied to a video stream. This allows for Shared Object support even when no video stream has started

5.8.0 – SERVER + SDK

ANTICIPATED OCTOBER 2019

SDK

PUBLICLY RELEASE HTML SDK ON NPM

• Open source of our HTML5 SDK on NPM and Github.

UPGRADE THE FRONTEND TO BE MOBILE FRIENDLY

• Revamp of the Red5 Pro front end interface.

SERVER AND SDK

ABR MOBILE SDK SUPPORT

• Adaptive Bitrate support for the Mobile SDK. Brings the mobile SDK to parity with the HTML5 SDK

SERVER

AV1

• WebRTC support for this new video codec. Currently only supported in Chrome although adoption in other browsers seems likely due to Apple joining the Alliance for Open Media

CAULDRON FEATURES (GENERAL)

• Public C++ API for our transcoder application called Cauldron. Allows developers to create their own rules (Brews) and integrate third-party libraries to do things like face detection, general AI, splitting video, combining streams, etc

CAULDRON UNIFIED AND PLUGABLE CODECS API

• More work on our public transcoder API

CAULDRON DOCUMENTATION AND EXAMPLES

• Cauldron API Deployed with Public Documentation and Examples

STREAM MANAGER SECURITY

• Improves Stream Manager security and potential vulnerabilities on cloud networks like GCP, AWS, and Azure

Ubuntu 18/ Java 10

CentOS 7 – Open SSL support/ Crypto lib for ubuntu

5.9.0 – SERVER + SDK

ANTICIPATED JANUARY 2020

SDK

UDP SUPPORT FOR MOBILE SDK

• Adds UDP support for publishing and subscribing. Brings Mobile SDK to parity with HTML5 SDK

FRONTEND AND TESTBED UI UPDATE

• Facelift on the testbeds (HTML5, iOS, and Android). The goal is to make them more user-friendly and easier to skin

SERVER

MP4 CONTAINER

• Use MP4 as the default container for server-side recordings. Currently, we use FLV.

SIMULCAST WEBRTC PUBLISHING:

• Allow for WebRTC publishers to broadcast multiple variants at once to allow for ABR on playback. Removes the need to use a Transcoder node in the server-side architecture for WebRTC publishers.
• This update may allow for broadcasting two distinct media sources in addition to simulcast. (i.e. Camera and Screen)

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Anything we’re missing? Something you’d like completed sooner? Let us know. Send a message to info@red5.net or schedule a call.