The Wowza Media Server is OEM licensed. This comes under OEM agreements. Therefore, there is full authorization of the product sale under this company’s brand name. This is a fully featured media server that is providing lots of media contents to the people. There are thousands of people that are using this web host for the broadcasting of the media contents. You need a single account for using the Wowza Media Server. There are various plans that you can select according to your need. The prices for all the plans are variable. The price is set according to the data and space usage. There are unlimited plans too. The lowest plan is just for$24.95. This is the lowest price plan, and it allows thirty five connections at a time with 10 GB storage and 1 TB tariff.

Stream Types

In Wowza Media Server 3, MediaStreams represent an incoming or outgoing stream of video, audio or metadata. Wowza Server provides a mechanism for defining custom server-side MediaStream implementations or stream types. These stream types are configured using the Streams/StreamType property in the Application.xml file. The following table lists the more commonly used stream types and their intended use (for a complete list, consult the User’s Guide):

• default: Video on demand streaming of static Flash media, H.264/AAC and MP3 content
• record: Video recording
• live: Publish and play live video content (best for one-to-many streaming of live events)
• live-lowlatency: Publish and play live video content (best for one-to-one or one-to-few video/audio chat applications)
• live-record: Same as live plus content will be recorded
• shoutcast: Audio re-streaming of a SHOUTcast/Icecast MP3 or AAC+ audio stream
• shoutcast-record: Same as shoutcast plus content will be recorded
• liverepeater-origin: Origin stream type used by live stream repeater to deliver a single streaming using origin/edge configuration
• liverepeater-edge: Edge stream type used by live stream repeater to deliver a single stream using origin/edge configuration
• rtp-live: Re-streaming of an RTSP/RTP, native RTP or MPEG-TS stream
• rtp-live-record: Same as rtp-live plus content will be recorded

Supported Media

Wowza Media Server 3 supports the following media file formats: FLV (Flash Video), MP4 (QuickTime container) and MP3 content (see table below for common file extensions). To play video on demand content, the proper prefix must be prepended to the file name to create a stream name. For example to play the MP4 file mycoolvideo.mov use the stream name mp4:mycoolvideo.mov. The following table lists the more common file type prefixes (for a complete list consult the User’s Guide):

• flv: FLV (Flash Video – this is the default media type so the qualifier and the file extension can be omitted)

  Example: “flv:mycoolvideo.flv”

• mp4: MP4 (QuickTime container – .mp4, .f4v, .mov, .m4v, .mp4a, .3gp, and .3g2)

  Example: “mp4:mycoolvideo.mov”

• mp3: MP3 (.mp3)

  Example: “mp3:mycoolsong.mp3″

• smil: SMIL (XML files used to configure multi-bitrate streams – .smil)

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You need Java SE Development Kit (JDK) and Apache Ant (a Java-based build tool) installed to compile/build Red5 yourself.
What ports are used by Red5 server?

By default Red5 runs under Jetty WebServer and the following ports are used:
RTMP: 1935
RTMPT: 8088
HTTP servlet engine: 5080 (Tomcat uses 8080)
Debug proxy port: 1936

RTMP and RTMPT are protocols for video/audio communication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Messaging_Protocol). The latter protocol is a wrapper (HTTP tunneling) as a fallback if port 1935 is blocked. The HTTP servlet engine is the ‘webpage’-server like Apache and IIS (Internet Information Server). Normally this service runs on port 80. Finally port 1936 is used. I don’t know its purpose and how to use it.
When I connect from flash to my red5-server-app I get NetConnection.Connect.Failed

Probably another Red5 server is still running (e.g. NT red5 service).
How to fetch the latest source and compile it into a WAR file?

On Linux use the command ‘svn’ (subversion) to obtain the sources and use ‘ant’ (apache ant) to compile to a war file. (Look also in Howtos!)
Is there a way to save an image (screen capture) from Flash using Red5?

There are a bunch of implementations without(!) Red5. The idea is to freeze the local video screen, scan all pixels of the video area in a (byte)array and send (HTTP POST) it to a PHP/JSP/ASP/CFM/… webserver. (Another way for this transport is to stream it (RTMP) to the Red5 server.) On the server the pixels are converted to a jpg or gif and stored as an image file. This works from Flash player 8. A visual example: http://www.bytearray.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/media_snapshot/
Complete flash frontend/php backend example by Robert Hall: http://www.ifbin.com/ (look in actionscript -> classes -> flash.display*)
Flash BitmapExporter, Compress and Save Images: http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000645.php
Png encoder in as3 (Flash 9): http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/10/png-encoder-in-as3.html

Note: the Flash Security Sandbox prevents RTMP streams to be drawn() to BitmapData objects. In AS3 there is a hack possible to circumvent this, but this will probably be fixed in a future update of the Flash player: http://chennney.com/2006/12/08/security-sandbox-violation-bitmapdatadraw-on-rtmp-source/
Converting audio FLV file to MP3?

Once your FLV file gets to the server, you’d presumably like to do something with it. But the FLV is encoded using a format known as NellyMoser. This is a proprietary codec, and no transcodecs are readily available for it.

So that’s where this tool enters the picture. It will convert NellyMoser encoded FLV files to WAV, which you can then convert to MP3 or whatever else you’d like. It works by leveraging the NellyMoser decoder which is compiled into the standard Flash Player.
How do fix NetConnection.Connect.InvalidApp on begining red5 tutorial

would be great if the author provide a downloadable zip or xml file because lot of people get this error even if you follow the tutorial step by step.