Download the latest Red5 Pro Server!

Register for a Trial or Pro License

If you have not done so already, register an account at https://account.red5.net.

* The 30 day trial allows for up to 10 concurrent connections, while the Professional license has no connection limit.

Requirements

The following are required to set up the Red5 Pro Server:

• Java JDK v1.8 or higher

• For Mac OSX, you may need to install sdl_image. From a terminal window: brew install sdl_image.

• For Windows, you will need to install Microsoft Visual Studio redistributables if you don’t have Visual Studio on your machine.

• See this doc for Linux-specific requirements.

• Red5 Pro Server

Installation

The following Inbound ports need to be open on your server/firewall for Red5 Pro features to work:

Note that if you are running Red5 Pro on a hosted server, then you will need to install an SSL certificate to publish via WebRTC – however, this is not necessary for localhost publishing.

Please refer to the Operating System’s documentation on opening ports. If developing and testing locally, most likely you will not have to expose these ports for remote subscription of streams.

1. Download the Red5 Pro server from the downloads section of the Red5 Pro Accounts site.
2. Unzip into a location on your local system. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will unzip the Red5 Pro server to: /Users/red5pro-user/red5pro on OSX or /home/red5pro-user/red5pro on Linux.
3. Start the Red5 Pro server:
   • On OSX & Linux: Open Terminal, cd into your Red5 Pro install directory and issue this command: ./red5.sh
   • On Windows: Navigate to the Red5 Pro install directory in a File Browser and double-click on red5.bat
4. After the server has started, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:5080
5. If the server has started successfully, you should see the default landing page for the Red5 Pro server install
   • The landing page can be found at /webapps/root/index.jsp of your Red5 Pro installation. You can modify or remove it as desired. For now, we will use it to navigate around and demonstrate what the Red5 Pro server can do!
6. Note: To stop the server on a local machine, you can either close the terminal window or open a second terminal window, navigate to the same location and run ./red5-shutdown.sh (./red5-shutdown.bat on Windows)

Congratulations! You have successfully set up and run the Red5 Pro Server. The following sections get you started with testing the Streaming and Second Screen solutions the Red5 Pro Server provides.