If you aren’t yet convinced osflash.org is one of the most essential truck-stops for the Flash community, check out the open source Red5 project by that’s under development there. They’re making some serious progress in reverse-engineering the RTMP protocol used in Macromedia’s Flash Communication Server and have already managed to create a NetConnection with their server.
With a bit of luck we’ll be seeing an open-source FlashComm server, who knows one day even with the ability to stream audio and video like its commercial counter-part. Exciting times ahead for the Flash community!
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Great news! Can’t wait to see some audio and video transmissions on Red5. Don’t forget to vote for your Red5 Logo.
Hey Peter! Thanks for the write up! On Friday, we demo’d the server and streamed some video for everyone watching. We’ve posted a downloadable version for people to try localy on thier own machines.
http://osflash.org/red5#conference_links
So far, we have NetConnection, NetStream and server side services working ;) Next is Shared Objects!
Thanks again!
RED5 is very good….my question is: Is it possible to use FlvPlayBack componet or Media PlayBack componet with RED5??
thanks!!!
yes, I believe it should be it uses the same protocol to pass through FLV files so there’s nothing holding people back from hooking it up to the FLVPlayBack component.
You can sign up to the RED5 mailinglist to get some more detailed info on the project from the developers themselves.
http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org