Red5: Open source Flash server

Say you're a web developer building a Flash-enabled app. Say you've got some streaming audio and video in there and need a server to handle all that stuff. Say you don't want to pay $4,500 for Adobe Flash Media Server. You can get a lot done for free with the usual technologies, i.e. LAMP--and many sites have--but you would be neglecting Red5. Red5 is an open source server designed from the ground up for serving Flash content. That includes streaming videos for would-be YouTubes and streaming audio for would-be Odeos, but also "push" support for things like real-time multiplayer gaming, multi-user video chat, live streaming, and client stream recording. Red5 is built on Java and the current version is 0.5, quickly approaching 0.6. Head over to the Red5 site to download the server or check out the documentation and tutorial.

Tags: adobe, flash, java, open source, OpenSource, osflash, red5 server, Red5Server