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from the trench: streaming a live event

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I decided to document my last event. don’t know what this falls under, but hopefully it helps others. so lets get started the event I was contacted by the client to do a live webcast for a horse show. I would setup […]


how to: using edgecast live streaming

Friday, October 19th, 2007
the documentation was a little confusing. for broadcasting use the url provided for publishing with out the trailing / so if your publishing point is : rtmp://fmsbcastserverurl/20xxxx/ , use rtmp://fmsserverurl/20xxxx to view your stream use the player url without the stream name (that got me for a bit). their documentation says to include you stream name, don’t. so if […]


comparing flash to windows media streaming

Sunday, October 14th, 2007
I’ve recently had a client that swears by windows media for steaming, and wanted to create a youtubish site using it. I helped him understand that flash was the best option, but then decided to look deeper into the debate to see what other people consider the pro’s and cons. I now to most of us […]


remove drm from wma, asf, and wmv files

Monday, September 17th, 2007
Need to get rid of drm from a windows media file? Use FairUse4WM Freeware DRM removal Windows software. Strip copy-protection from .WMV, .ASF, .WMA (Windows Media Player 9, 10, 11) Can’t transfer legally purchased music and videos to your iPod, Sony PSP because of the DRM protection of Windows Media files? Here comes free software for Windows […]


Pudding

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
You can find a list of projects I am / have worked on since Mar 2007 (Freedom Day), what I do, and what I love. If you’d like to know more about my role in a project feel free to shoot me a message at the end of the page Projects NFL Rush Meteor The Monster Truck Urbaniacs HalfGray Spaztek Crandleberry’s 2007 […]


red5 or fms : out the box / first impressions

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
after testing both servers for a simple application that feeds 5 live feeds with a user chat, and a admin message oneway chat. i’ve decided to go with fms. this is only due to out the box performance and in no way am i not recommending it. Why I decided on fms for one reason - out […]


Flash live streaming how to

Friday, June 1st, 2007
This how to covers how to stream live video or either red 5, FCS, or FMS. I am only covering the basic’s not server side as, or java. Streaming video is pretty simple once you have a server. I recommend using both red5 and FMS developer version on your local dev machine. This way you can […]


red5 - flash server alternative

Friday, May 18th, 2007
Found this while looking into an alternative to flash comm for one of my clients. From the red5 site: Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java that supports: * Streaming Audio/Video (FLV and MP3) * Recording Client […]


streaming server bandwidth calulator

Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Found an awesome bandwidth calculator for video, audio, whatever streaming. http://www.jamoncam.com/bandwidth-calculators.php Enjoy, sid