Video Streaming

We implemented video streaming on a website and it was much easier that i thought. We had to stream pre-recorded videos and the 1st step towards achieving this was to setup streaming server.

There are quite a few open source available that can be installed on LINUX system ... i choose to go with Red5. It got installed easily on my dedicated server. The only problem i faced is that it has a directory as oflaDemo from where the videos can be called for streaming. I was not able to assign another directory for video streaming, so at the end i used oflaDemo and stored all my videos there.

Then the next step was to find out the player which supports streaming. We choose JW player. It has a option to stream using code:

flashvars="file=filename.flv&streamer=rtmp://www.domainname.com/oflaDemo/

This way we were able to implement video streaming on a site.