Red5 Pro 1.2.0 Release – Now With Cloud-Based Autoscaling

We are excited to announce the new 1.2.0 release of Red5 Pro. In addition to quite a few bug fixes, this version adds the ability to deploy clusters on top of AWS or Google Compute Engine that automatically expand and contract depending on the load. We call this feature Autoscaling. Autoscaling is a huge feature… Continue reading Red5 Pro 1.2.0 Release – Now With Cloud-Based Autoscaling

WebRTC: The Delivery Protocol For Live Streams Of The Future

Earlier this week Tsahi Levent-Levi wrote up a great post on how he thinks h.264 is the protocol of choice for WebRTC apps moving forward. There’s so much that’s true about what he wrote, and I tend to agree on almost every point he makes. h.264 is supported in hardware encoders for just about every… Continue reading WebRTC: The Delivery Protocol For Live Streams Of The Future

Streaming Media East 2016 Recap

We had an amazing time last week at #SMEast 2016 and wanted to provide a quick recap on the conference. Along with meeting a number of great companies in the live streaming space and getting a ton of inbound interest at our booth, we had the chance to hear a number of insightful presentations by… Continue reading Streaming Media East 2016 Recap

The Top Ten Emerging Live Streaming Apps

As Twitter and Facebook duke it out for live streaming dominance with their apps, there are other, more niche players that are showing tremendous promise. We took a look at what’s out today, and which ones have the potential to make it big. The trend we are seeing is that niche markets and highly specific… Continue reading The Top Ten Emerging Live Streaming Apps

Don’t Flip Out, Flip Your Camera!

So you’ve got the Red5 Pro Server up and running on your Android device and your application is ready to stream. Ready, set, publish! Uh oh, the camera is upside down! Not quite the dramatic effect you were looking for. What’s up with that? Some manufacturers are now physically installing the camera upside down to… Continue reading Don’t Flip Out, Flip Your Camera!

Red5 Pro 1.0 – It’s No Joke!

I know what you are thinking. We probably couldn’t have picked a worse day (April Fools Day) to release. But we aren’t letting that stop us. While Google literally and figuratively dropped the mic today, we instead have actually improved the mic with echo cancellation for Android. Not only that, we’ve improved performance on both… Continue reading Red5 Pro 1.0 – It’s No Joke!

Stream Settings for Live Broadcasts – Balancing Latency and Video Quality

The Balancing Act of Stream Quality One question we get consistently from developers using Red5 Pro is: what are the best settings for my stream to create the best quality experience? While we wish we could just have one short answer to this question, it is complex, and ultimately becomes a balancing act. Chris Wendt… Continue reading Stream Settings for Live Broadcasts – Balancing Latency and Video Quality

Clustering-How to Scale Red5 Pro

Time to go Live at Scale! You’re about to launch a big marketing push for your live video streaming app. Your marketing team is confident that the event will attract somewhere between 1,000 (worst case) and 20,000 (best case) active, or concurrent, subscribers. Or even more challenging, what happens if your silent launch somehow attracts… Continue reading Clustering-How to Scale Red5 Pro

Blab Broadcast: Future Live Streaming Platforms With Ryan Bell & Alex Kahn

I’m excited to be speaking with Live streaming gurus Ryan Bell and Alex Kahn tomorrow at 11AM EST, 4PM GMT. We will be doing a live broadcast on Blab talking about future live streaming platforms and how we are democratizing video for all developers with Red5 Pro. – This live stream is over. Ryan and Alex… Continue reading Blab Broadcast: Future Live Streaming Platforms With Ryan Bell & Alex Kahn