[Red5] RTMP is patented by Adobe?

[Dan Rossi]

On 08/03/2008, at 12:00 AM, Ignacio Lopez wrote:

> Nobody is still sure that the patent posted in the Flashcomguru  
> article that was revised by Hank is the one that deals with RTMP  
> protocol....
> I don't know....when building a software product of your own these  
> kind of things get you thinking....if Adobe wanted to scare people,  
> at least got me second guessing myself....specially because there is  
> no easy way out: you can't just migrate your red5 or wowza apps to  
> FMS and their C++ api (puaj).

Porting to wowza and forth is ok, ive demoed that with the bandwidth  
detect app.

Looking deep into their c++ plugin API it wouldnt be so easy to port  
however it seems their access plugin example seems like the  
clientregistry in red5 just more intense requiring some overpriced  
adobe 'partner' expert to build something for you, i'll stick to Java  
or AS3 or whatever.

There is other stuff however that ive done with red5 webapps that may  
seem really impossible to do with FMS unless I did build alot of the  
stuff in C++ to use in the application script. Ie it will still only  
access log for a whole application not for each 'room', bandwidth  
shaping is for a whole application only, there is no per 'room'  
configurations which is where I'm heading right now wanting to port as  
many features over from windows media as possible that not even FMS has.