Red5 v0.8 RC3 on Linux and VideoFlashChat

First, read this step by step tutorial for installing latest Java and Red5 on Linux.

After installing the videoflashchat webapps, restart the Red5 server.

Also try removing these from WEB-INF/web.xml if present, as latest Red5 has different logging classes:

<context-param>

<param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name>

<param-value>/WEB-INF/log4j.properties</param-value>

</context-param>



<listener>

<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>

</listener>

RTMP Installation Tutorials for Video Flash Chat

Here are some samples of installing the videoflashchat rtmp application on different systems with default settings.

Installing in Red5 on Red Hat

1. Copy _setup/_red5/videoflashchat to opt/red5/dist/videoflashchat and restart the red5 server.

If you install it in a different folder name, edit videoflashchat/WEB-INF/red5-web.properties to reflect that.

2. Restart red5 .
sh /opt/red5/dis/red5-shutdown.sh
sh /opt/red5/dis/red5.sh

Installing in FMS with Influxis
1. From My Applications create application with Add New Application. Use any name i.e. "videoflashchat" and save generated rtmp path.
2. From File Admin edit videoflashchat/main.asc file and make sure it has the contents of _setup/_fms/videoflashchat/main.asc (open it with notepad or other text editor). If needed select all from text editor (CTRL+A), copy (CTRL+C), move to form, select all from there (CTRL+A), paste from clipboard (CTRL+V) to overwrite.
3. From Permissions, Set Referring Domain(s), Add New Domain - add your domain that hosts the flash (i.e. your-domain.com)

Installing in FMS on Windows

Copy _setup/_fms/videoflashchat to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash Media Sever X.X\applications.

Note: This requires the Flash Media Interactive Server, as it also needs other features in addition to streaming.

Installing in Red5 on Windows

1. Copy _setup/_red5/videoflashchat to C:\Program Files\Red5\webapps.

If you install it in a different folder name, edit videoflashchat/WEB-INF/red5-web.properties to reflect that.

2. Run... services.msc (or go there from Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services , find & right click Red5 row and choose Restart.

If you allow videoflahschat.com or any domain to access your rtmp server you can test the rtmp installation with this: http://www.videoflashchat.com/videoflashchat/connectiontest.html

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VideoWhisper.com Video Chat Software

New AS3 Flash Video Chat software is beeing developed by VideoWhisper.com . Currently a video conference solution is available for testing.

This requires at least Flash 9 but AS3 is advertised to be more stable and a lot faster compared to older AS2. Users with Flash8 and older can't use AS3.

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RTMP Connection test for VideoFlashChat

We created a VideoFlashChat RTMP connection checker using AS3 to check if everything is ok with the streaming server:
http://www.videoflashchat.com/videoflashchat/connectiontest.html

Test with rtmp://obrix1ty9.rtmphost.com/videoflashchat . Connections from other domains are rejected by our fms host so this path will only work with this one but you can test your own installations if the sever allows connections from videoflashchat.com .

Submit a ticket if you are a customer and need this zipped to test your installation.

Code:

import flash.net.NetConnection;
import flash.net.NetStream;
import flash.events.*;

// Current release of FMS only understands AMF0 so tell Flex to
// use AMF0 for all NetConnection objects.
NetConnection.defaultObjectEncoding = flash.net.ObjectEncoding.AMF0;

if (link.text.length==0) link.text="rtmp://videoflashchat";
bt_connect.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, try_connect);

function try_connect(e:MouseEvent)
{
var button:Button = e.target as Button;
log.appendText("\nConnecting to: "+link.text);
fmsconnect(link.text);
}

function fmsconnect(server)
{
var UserName="test_conn";
var sex="male";
var room="test";

//connection
var fmscon:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
fmscon.connect(server,UserName,sex,room);
fmscon.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatus);

function netStatus(event:NetStatusEvent):void {
var info:Object = event.info;
log.appendText("\n"+info.code);
}
}

Red5 v0.7.0 Final

We checked compatibility of Video Flash Chat with the new Red5 final version and updated as necessary.

Instructions for accessing the new Flex adminPanel (inspired from a mailing list post) after installing the new Red5 on your computer:
1. Start Red5 0.7.0 / Service in Windows (Start > Run...: services.msc )
2. Open: http://localhost:5080/admin/register.html
3. Fill your new user and password. Submit.
4. Restart Red5
5. Open: http://localhost:5080/demos/adminPanel.html
6. Fill "localhost" as server and the user/pass you defined in step 3. Submit.

This file required updating for the application to work with the latest version:
videoflashchat/WEB-INF/web.xml

Contact us if you are a customer and need an update.