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Last week we teamed up with Brightcove and hosted the Boston streaming video meetup at our Boston offices. This was intended as an intro to video streaming technologies and the various approaches to reducing latency. Thiago Teixiera, Alex Barstow, and Chis Allen all presented on three different approaches to live streaming latency: HLS, CMAF, and… Continue reading 3 Approaches to Live Streaming Latency: Boston Video Dev Meetup

AV1 is a new video codec with a very promising –and this cannot be emphasized enough– future. The buzz around AV1 centers upon its ability to more effectively compress video. This is really exciting for large VOD based companies like Netflix as AV1 can reduce bandwidth requirements by 30-50% beyond currently employed codecs. Being able… Continue reading 3 Reasons Why AV1 Encoding is not Ready for Real-Time Streaming

It’s been a long time coming. Flash is well on its way out with 2020 marking the last official year for support. Flash was a cornerstone of the live-streaming technology sector and, with the use of the underlying RTMP protocol, lay the groundwork for where we are today. The general-purpose streaming platform Justin TV was… Continue reading What is the Alternative to Flash Video for Live Streaming?

Choosing the right live streaming solution is very important with many different factors to consider. Latency, scalability, usability, functionality, and, of course, price. At Red5 Pro we’re a little biased towards which solution is the best, so in the interest of fairness and transparency we’ve compiled a list of different providers and covered their pros… Continue reading 9 Ultra Low Latency Video Streaming Solutions

New Year, new release. We are very excited to introduce Red5 Pro version 6.0! With updates to the server, HTML5 SDK, and both iOS and Android SDKs this was a big one. It’s a great way to start off the year. Version 6.0 introduces even lower latency of 200 milliseconds over our WebRTC delivery, DigitalOcean… Continue reading Red5 Pro Release 6.0 – 200 Milliseconds of Latency!

RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol) has a long-established history as one of the original methods for live streaming.  Originally developed by Macromedia and now owned by Adobe. RTMP was designed for delivering on-demand media and live media (i.e live audio, video, and data) over the Internet between a Flash player and a Media Server. However, there… Continue reading What’s Next For RTMP Servers: 4 Considerations

History RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol) is an application-level video streaming protocol originally developed by Macromedia and now owned by Adobe. With a long history in the media streaming market, RTMP was originally designed for delivering on-demand media and live media (i.e live audio, video, and data) over the Internet between a Flash player and a… Continue reading What is an RTMP Stream and Why Use It?

Functionality of RTSP The Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. Developed by experts from RealNetworks, Netscape and Columbia University around 1996, the protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points. Clients of media servers… Continue reading Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) Top 3 Use Cases

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are geographically distributed networks of proxy servers and data centers (caches). Emerging in the ’90s as a way to ease some of the bottlenecks in media delivery (websites, video, etc.), CDNs work by caching information. To summarize the way a CDN works: Every time website visitors and application users request for… Continue reading Top 6 Reasons CDN Live Streaming Video is Broken

Nginx is open-source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It was originally created as a web server for delivering websites and has evolved into a multifaceted solution for proxying content. Today it’s the most widely deployed web server. Eventually, NGINX added RTMP support to address scalability problems with… Continue reading Top 3 Reasons Nginx RTMP Falls Short