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Pankaj Singh
Pankaj Singh

Reputation: 531

how to use red5recorder with red5 server or wowza streaming server?

how can I use red5recorder with red5 server or wowza streaming server for recording live video stream on ubuntu 14.04.

I couldn't find any proper documentation either related to red5-server or red5recorder. After searching a lot I found a way to install red5-server and setup red5recorder as follows.

Installing red5server

Set-up red5 server on my local machine having ubuntu 14.04 by downloading zip files from - 

https://github.com/Red5/red5-server

Extracted and copied it to the directory /usr/share/ and changed its name to red5. Executed red5.sh in the terminal. It successfully installed red5server on my machine. Following links were useful while setting it up -

http://www.yourhowto.net/install-red5-media-server-ubuntu-debian/

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-red5-on-ubuntu-12-10

After the installation you can start red5-server by the command sudo service red5-server start. Now go to browser an type the URL http://localhost:5080 which would launch the red5 server.

Setting up red5recorder

Download the recorder from the URL http://www.red5-recorder.com/

Extract and Copy it to your www folder

Open the following file /red5recorder/bin-debug/red5recorder.html in the browser.

It might give error "Error: rtmp://127.0.0.1/red5server not found"

So to resolve it edit the file, and add server path after line 91 approx "FlashVars", "server=rtmp://localhost" inside else-if condition.

"FlashVars", "server=rtmp://localhost" is in my case, as I have installed red5server on my local machine. You can use demo URL such as - rtmp://184.72.239.149/vod

Useful links - http://www.red5-recorder.com/params.php , http://www.hdwplayer.com/rtmp-streaming-video-player/

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After all this I have a question, streaming started working fine in red5recorder, but video is not getting recorded. How can I make it work ? and how can I change filename ? And where does file gets saved ?

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I did searched for this also, and created a new application in red5server webapps directory with the name red5recorder having two sub folders streams and WEB-INF as described here - http://fms.denniehoopingarner.com/newapp.html

Please help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 588

Answers (1)

Pankaj
Pankaj

Reputation: 195

I downloaded a demo oflaDemo-r4472-java6.war from the URL - http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/snapshots/ to the directory {RED5_HOME}/webapps and then extracted using the command jar -xvf oflaDemo.war.

Then restart the red5-server using the command sudo service red5-server restart. Now one of the demo should work from the given URL http://localhost:5080/demos/, mainly oflaDemo would work.

Now change the permission of all subfolders inside /webapps directory to 777. start your demo application and video should get recorded in the directory /webapps/oflaDemo/streams/

Edit- This link may be useful https://serverfault.com/questions/215997/install-red5-demos-via-installer-or-within-war-file-manually

Upvotes: 1

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