Red5 video recorder Installation setup
So I was amazed how long it took me to finally get this up and working. Actually I am quite embarrassed once I figure it out how easy it is. I scoured the web for days looking for any tips on how to get this going until I installed all of the plugin information and got things going. Before we begin you should know that I am doing this via Eclipse and a few plugins so if you don’t have this stuff at your beck and call then stop now and keep looking.
I am assuming that you checked out my previous post for the installing Eclipse and also the Red5 plugins? Here are the links to the posts:
For Mac OS X. Includes the Flex plugin as well please download the red5 plugin like linux below:
http://www.mygeekproject.com/?p=506
For Linux Ubuntu (Should work for other flavors). Install eclipse and then just add the plugin:
http://www.mygeekproject.com/?p=498
Ok now we need to get the Red5 Recorder software which is at this link:
http://www.red5-recorder.com/
Now open eclipse and after you have everything installed. Read and watch the video in this post. Make sure read the part about building the application, “OK, now for building the applications…”. I am going to breeze through this pretty fast. Here is the post to read: http://www.mygeekproject.com/?p=506
Ok so here we go really fast…
Create a new Dynamic Web Project and call it “red5recorder”. Your now have two main folders, one ends in “Client”. Expand the Eclipse project “red5recorderClient” so you see the structure. Note that the red5recorder.zip file you download loaded has the same set of files. I opened up (2) windows and just removed all of the files from the eclipse project and replaced them from the “red5recorder.zip”. I then did a refresh in eclipse just to make sure it could see the files I swapped out.
Now you will need to Right click on the main red5recorder project (not the red5recorderClient) and then run as Server. It will go through and compile everything for you and move a copy of the files into the Red5 Server. Then Right click on the red5recorderClient and either Run as OR debug as. The application should work fine and the application should be working as planned.
I will post more about this coming up very soon and how to embed this into a webpage and also into a form. Keep watching for more posts.
please post a howto on how to embed it into a webpage.. I’m not exactly sure what’s going on.. are you installing a red5recorder into the red5 server and then using the client?
“I will post more about this coming up very soon and how to embed this into a webpage and also into a form. Keep watching for more posts.”
We would love to know how you embed the recorder into a PHP webpage and more specifics on saving and retrieving with MySQL
Any more help would be awesome!
Thanks for the excellent post. Unfortunately I can’t get the red5 plugin to work with my version of eclipse (3.5.1) on ubuntu. Could you please help me by sending me the WEB-INF folder that eclipse generates for the red5recorder project. I’ve got everything else work, compliled the swf on the command line, got the swfembedded, etc, now I’m completely stuck with these damn xml config files. Thanks again!
Hey! thanks for the tutorial, there’s not much information about that in the web. I run without problems the red5recorder, but when I record a video and try to play from the player integrated in red5recorder…nothing happens. However when I go to my Red5folder/webapps/red5recorder/streams I can open it with my flv player. Anybody is having the same issue?? Thanks in advance.
The video seems to be dead. I haven’t done any flash development ever, and haven’t dabbled in Java in about 5 years.
I’ve been trying to get the red5recorder working now for about three days. I’ve got like 16+ hours in it. Still no go. I can finally get the client to point to something other than 127.0.0.1. I don’t really understand how the to get the server part of it working. Setting up the red5 server wasn’t that hard, but I could really use someone to point me in the right direction with the red5recorder install.
Do you have a copy of the install video that you could re-upload somewhere. This has been a nightmare.
Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Chris
Hello,
I am wondering if you still have the red5 video recorder files because on there site they don’t have any files on there..
If you could help Thanks
Greg
Hi,
I got both red5 and red5 recorder working. I am a humble web designer who dabbles in PHP as and when needed.
Help me embed it into a PHP page.
Thanks a ton in advance
I have the same problem. I can record but when I click play, nothing happens, only blank screen.