Another Good From Red5 - Built-in Support For RTMPS

I remember when many users were looking for a solution to secure the RTMP stream, then i worked with Stunnel(Secure Your Red5 Applications With Stunnel) to implement the RTMPS functionality which FMS provides. That time i was able to achieve this, but this was kind of hack.
Today morning, i read the post of Paul Gregorie that Red5 has come up with a real RTMPS solution.
Below in this post, i am following him.


RTMPS is RTMPT over SSL. Here are the steps to setup Red5 to support RTMPS-

Create a self-signed certificate

This process is pretty much known to everyone who worked with signed applet kind of stuffs. Here it is-

keytool -genkey -alias red5 -keyalg RSA -keysize 512 -validity 3650 \
-keystore keystore -keypass password -storepass password \
-dname "CN=localhost,OU=Red5,O=Red5,L=Henderson,ST=NV,C=US"

The above command is having the options that can be modified according to your requirement like DName fields: Location (L), State (ST), and Country (C).

The above command generate a file called "keystore". We will use it later.

Get Red5

RTMPS implementation is not the part of Red5 0.7.0, so in order to use RTMPS, you need to take the code from Red5 SVN repository from revision 2819 onwards.

Configuration

Now you have Red5 setup in your machine, copy the "keystore" file we created earlier step into conf directory (overwrite the current keystore file in the directory if prompted). The configuration file containing the parameter for RTMPS is conf/red5-core.xml and you will need to update the RTMPS section if you changed the keystore password. The other configuration file is red5.properties, it contains the port assignments for the supported protocols. Make sure that you have your ports configured correctly.

According to Adobe, the default port for RTMPS is 443, normally reserved for HTTPS. If you change this port to something other than 443 you will need to update your NetConnection urls with the correct port.

For advance options on SSL configuration, this page will help.

Test

Start the server and test your applications. Go to http://localhost:5080/demos/oflaDemo.swf and change the rtmp url to rtmps://localhost/oflaDemo.

You can also enable debugging option, here it is how-

Debugging

To see what is going on with SSL at a really low level you can enable this option in your startup:

-Djavax.net.debug=ssl It will cause additional information to be displayed on the console.

Red5 is getting hot and hot everyday with new features. Waiting to hear support of many new features in near future. Great work Red5 Team.

See Also:
Secure Your Red5 Applications With Stunnel

Reference:-
RTMPS in Red5

Flash Player 10 Out With New Audio And Video Features

In a prerelease of Adobe Flash Player 10 code name "Astro", the noticable features are audio and video features which will be available with proposed future release of Adobe Flash Media Server.

Dynamic Streaming

As streaming is dependent on newtwork condition, Dynamic Streaming will provide best quality video and will be auto adjustable based on bandwidth availability. Video streams over RTMP from proposed future releases of Flash Media Server can dynamically change bitrate as network conditions change.

RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol)

According to Adobe- RTMFP provides a UDP-based secure network transport alternative to RTMP-over-TCP. To take advantage of the feature you will need to establish a net connection via future releases of Flash Media Server or other Adobe server products. UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is an efficient and standardized Internet protocol for delivering media assets because of its support for lossy delivery, improving performance of real time communication. RTMFP is always encrypted which helps protect media delivery. This technology is a result of Adobe's acquisition of Amicima, Inc. in 2006. To know more about this new protocol, read RTMFP FAQ.

UDP Streaming. What would be the reaction of Red5 team?

Speex Audio Codec

The new, higher fidelity Speex voice codec that delivers the lowest-latency audio experience.

The complete feature list is here.


Reference:-
Adobe Flash® Player 10 beta

360 Degree Interactive Video And Future Of Flash Player And FMS

Today, I read two interesting blog posts "360 Degree Interactive Video" and "Multibitrate Support Coming to Flash Player and FMS (?)" written by Stefan Richter from Flashcomguru.com talking about 360 degree interactive video served by flash and possible upcoming features in flash player and FMS.
360 degree videos from Immersive Media are looking very impressive. Just drag your mouse on any direction you want to view within the video once it starts playing.



More videos are here at - http://demos.immersivemedia.com/onlinecities/

Here is the video where kevin Towers shows how Flash Media Interactive Server, Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Rights Managment Server are leading the way in the protection and streaming of digital video today.



Reference:-
360 Degree Interactive Video
Multibitrate Support Coming to Flash Player and FMS (?)
Adobe at NAB 2008- Flash Media Server