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Ideally, we would be able to experience live events in-person. The coronavirus has changed all that. Although, even before the pandemic there were limitations to in-person events as well. Some fans may not have been able to afford a ticket, travel to a venue or the venue itself reached capacity. Having a way of broadcasting… Continue reading 14 Key Features for Live Event Broadcasting

The novel coronavirus has disrupted almost all elements of everyday life, especially education. Many schools are creating a virtual classroom through the use of video calls. Services such as Zoom are very popular, but as we’ve discussed in a previous post, Zoom suffers from security issues which is a big problem. Further at issue is… Continue reading 9 Best Features for Interactive Video Distance Learning

Live streaming is a complicated process involving a variety of different methods and formats. One of these components is the codec used for the encoding and decoding of the media file. The codec also defines the types of tools that the codec can use to conduct the streaming. To greatly simplify the process; in order… Continue reading 5 Reasons HEVC (h.265) Streaming Servers are Overhyped

For anyone wishing there was a way to meet bandwidth and latency challenges posed by 4K UHD and other emerging high bitrate video formats without having to wrestle with all the issues posed by next-gen codecs, here’s some good news: It looks like your wish has come true. Earlier this year, the Moving Picture Experts… Continue reading 9 Reasons Why LCEVC Circumvents the Codec Wars

For the second year in a row, Streaming Media Magazine awarded Red5 Pro the 2020 Streaming Media 50. As an industry-leading publication, Streaming Media Magazine is very well attuned to the ebbs and flows of the live streaming industry, tracking where it is going and recording where it came from. We are proud to be… Continue reading Red5 Pro Selected for 2020 Streaming Media 50

Ruby on Rails is an open-source programming language with a large following. According to their website, they optimize “for programmer happiness with Convention over Configuration.” No wonder that some very successful platforms such as Twitch, Basecamp, GitHub and Square are built using Ruby on Rails. Live streaming has enjoyed exponential growth, especially over the last… Continue reading 11 Platforms for Ruby on Rails Live Video Streaming

Encoding vendors and their customers who are relying on playout of live-streamed video over Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) to CDNs as the best way to minimize latency actually can do much better if they want to achieve end-to-end distribution in real time. This may come as a surprise to those who believe they have gone… Continue reading 5 Reasons SRT Streaming Encoders Can Now Support Real-Time Video

Golang (officially Go) is an open-source programming language that is a favorite choice among many developers. Developed by Google as a way to increase programming productivity in the face of limitations of the C++ language, Go is implemented through Google’s self-hosting compiler keychain and uses gccgo (a part of GCC) for the frontend. Further increasing… Continue reading 12 Platforms for Golang Video Streaming

As providers of sports and other live-streamed video add safeguards against surging online theft, they have more reasons than ever to cut end-to-end distribution latency to the vanishing point. These new ways to secure live video streaming, introduced in response to pirates’ circumvention of protections provided by encryption, revolve around forensic watermarking. While watermarking can’t… Continue reading 2 Ways Ultra-Low Latency Helps to Secure Live Video Streaming

Hot off the heels of our latest mobile release, comes Red5 Pro Server Release 7.2.0. Per usual, our dedicated team members have continued innovating and improving the already solid Red5 Pro platform. We consider ourselves very lucky to have such dependable QA staff and software developers.   7.2.0 improves the performance of stream recovery on… Continue reading Red5 Pro Server Version 7.2.0