Homonym: one of a group of words that share the same pronunciation but have different meanings. Take for example, the word “port”. It could mean a place where ships take shelter, the left side of a vessel, a type of wine or, most importantly, a communication channel or endpoint on a computer or network. To… Continue reading Changing Port Numbers
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What Is IoTV and Why You Should Care
“We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication” – Dr. Bob Moorehead That quote (often falsely attributed to the Dalai Lama) summarizes one of the most intriguing paradoxes of the modern age; what do we do with all our technology? How can we use the… Continue reading What Is IoTV and Why You Should Care
New Year Changes
Dear Red5 Pro Community, A long time ago, we started an open source community dedicated to a single goal: to make it easy for the world to create high-quality streaming environments for an unlimited number of applications, platforms and use cases. We’ve come a long way since we first launched our beta in October of… Continue reading New Year Changes
Red5 Pro Release 2.1.0 – Improved Autoscaling
The new year is all about self-improvement and looking forward. As such, our developers caught the spirit and churned out a new release for both server and mobile SDK. They improved the performance of our autoscale solution and load balancing stream manager, added Flash to HLS audio support (so you can video call your parents… Continue reading Red5 Pro Release 2.1.0 – Improved Autoscaling
Autoscaling Explained
We’ve talked about the advantages that autoscaling provides for guiding your app to internet greatness, but there’s always more to talk about. Our CEO Chris Allen continued his conversation with Bizety Technologies and explained not just what auto-scaling does, but how it works. To see if he revealed too many trade secrets, read the full… Continue reading Autoscaling Explained
A New Kind of Vision
Soldiers and poets; ordinarily the two occupy different worlds. That is, until live-streaming gets involved. Thanks to the extraordinary developers at Good Company they have enabled a soldier, blinded in combat, to once again connect to his surroundings. Wearing a pair of WiFi enabled iVue glasses and earphones, Major Scott Smiley sent a live-stream to… Continue reading A New Kind of Vision
Bizety, Red5 Pro and the Evolving World of Livestreaming
Recently, our CEO Chris Allen sat down with Ernie Regalado, the Editor-in-Chief of Bizety Technologies, to continue their discussion about Red5’s relentless and clandestine progress towards super-giant status. You can read about the full article here.
2016 – A Year of Live Streaming
2016 has been an exciting year in the always evolving world of live-streaming. The announcement of Facebook Live, and Youtube Live, propelled live-streaming prominently into the mainstream market. The popularity of these features hold a great potential to drive the future of social media. There are even reports of Facebook paying other companies to make… Continue reading 2016 – A Year of Live Streaming
Top Five Use Cases Where P2P with WebRTC Falls Short
WebRTC is fast becoming the default protocol for low latency video transmission in the web browser. People are building all kinds of innovative apps that leverage the technology in creative ways. But many people think of WebRTC as just a Peer to Peer (P2P) technology, and while that’s technically correct (you always need at least… Continue reading Top Five Use Cases Where P2P with WebRTC Falls Short
Achievement Unlocked – WebRTC
We did it! After months of work and many, many hours of coding, testing and (admittedly) a bit of hair pulling, we have fused the connectivity of WebRTC to the streaming capabilities of Red5 Pro! Adding to our already extensive list of integrations, WebRTC allows for cross-platform, real-time communications without plugins. It even allows for… Continue reading Achievement Unlocked – WebRTC