Red5 RTMP Streaming

I'm very new to RTMP streaming and am seeking help. Just enough to get me started.

I have been Googling for about 5-7 hours now 开发者_运维技巧and still cannot determine my answer!

The documentation of Red5 is limited and cannot find any support at all! Even similar questions to mine are unanswered on stackoverflow :(

My questions are:

1. Why can't I simply place an .mp3 inside red5's server root and play it?
2. To serve a simple MP3 file over RTMP. Do I need to write a Java application?
3. If so, any pointers?

To make matters worse, I have little to none Java experience.

Please help ST.

The easiest way to do what you want to is to install the oflaDemo. Start your red5 server and go to http://localhost:5080/installer
You need to select "oflaDemo" there and install it, if you don't already have it installed. Next place your mp3's or whatever in the following location

%RED5_HOME%/webapps/oflaDemo/streams

Red5 home will be the directory where you installed Red5. So if you used an installer it may look like this:

C:\Program Files\Red5\webapps\oflaDemo\streams

To play your mp3 without writing any code flash or java, next go to this url: http://localhost:5080/demos/ofla_demo.html
Connect and select your file from the list and thats it.

I'm also playing with red5, and I've considered these two resources very helpful:

• http://www.red5tutorials.net/index.php/Tutorials:Getting_Started_With_Red5_Server
• http://trac.red5.org/wiki/Documentation/UsersReferenceManual/Red5CoreTechnologies/01-Creating-New-Applications#Chapter1.CreatenewapplicationsinRed5

have you got the Demos that come with RED5 installed? You won't have to code in java but you will have to open up a connection in flash in order to stream the mp3, the demos that comes with RED5 installation should have those examples.

I felt Wowza easier. There is a free version of Wowza which allows upto 10 connections. But after that you have start shelling money. But definitely lesser than FMS! And it is very easy. Just a few steps to setup and you can have your very own RTMP application streaming mp3 :) And if you do find the answer of how to stream RTMP on Red5, please do let me know!

for streaming an mp3 file you don't need any functionality of the red5 server, a webserver should be enough.

if you still have to load it from the red5 server:

• is the file accessible in your browser? e.g. http://[red5-server]/file.mp3
• then just use this url when loading the mp3 file in flash as this is not working i want to include url in my jsp how can i do that and what player i have to use