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[D-Durga-Prasad]

Extending to Mr T-Burtons's comment please check this link for tabulr
comparision of REd5,WOWZA,FMS
http://askmeflash.com/article/10/comparison-wowza-vs-fms-vs-red5

Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Trevor Burton
<worldofpaper at googlemail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, mike at grounded.net <mike at grounded.net>wrote:
>
>> > Dominick (one of the core team members) set up a forum a while ago i
>> seem
>> > make a move to a forum. Mailing lists are just too simple, i think, so
>> the
>> > momentum needed to move to a forum just doesn't seem to gather.
>>
>> I would say it's because old devs don't like change because the world has
>> definitely moved on to forums. I'm from the mailing list days also but it's
>> simply too difficult to keep track of lists these days. To each his own it
>> what it boils down to but I also see why red5 is in such disarray.
>>
>
> personally i think it's a UX problem - forums may 'seem' like a better
> option but the simple fact is that mailing lists never seem to succeed in
> moving over to them, people get embedded - it's just too easy to have things
> drop into your inbox - just create filters or something if you can't keep
> track, gmail is great for tracking mailing list stuff i find, but anyway,
> that argument runs and runs so probably best to let it lie
>
>
>>
>> > red5.org is the central place for Red5 information but there are many,
>> many
>> > others. Usually scattered around in individual blogs - there are no
>> other
>> > central repositories of information that i'm aware of - other than
>> > Dominick's youtube channel, which has some screencast tutorials that are
>> > worth checking out if you're just getting set up for developing with
>> Red5.
>>
>> It's too bad, it's a mess, hard to find information, scattered all over.
>> Sad to see such a good project go to waste because of that. When researching
>> this, what I came away with was pay for support, buy wowza because red5 is
>> too much for the average user.
>>
>
> Yes, Red5 is definately not for the casual user who just wants to put
> something relatively simple together - you CAN do simple streaming very
> easily, but Red5 is able to do so much more... but it does require an
> investment in time to get your hands dirty.
>
>
>>
>> > Can't help you on the last thing as i've never used Wowza - there are
>> many
>> > results for comparisons of red5, wowza and FMS so if you do a bit of
>> > reading you should be able to nail down the best one for your use case,
>> as
>> > i think that's what it comes down to.
>>
>> I've done that. The comparisons always lead to the same thing. Unless
>> you're a heavy into programming dev, don't bother using red5 or you'll be
>> left hanging. It's frustrating to see this happening, it ends up looking
>> like a project for certain people, not for the faint of heart which is why
>> people are putting their money into wowza.
>>
>> I would have been happy to put some of that money into a red5 devs pocket
>> but there's barely any activity here so far which makes me nervous. Of
>> course, I'm sure all of the defenders of the list will come out of the
>> woodwork now telling me how wrong I am.
>>
>> >
>> > anyway, good luck with Red5 and keep posting questions when you hit
>> those walls!
>>
>> The walls have been hit already. I built the server and there is little
>> information that makes sense to a casual user. Yet I can go build a wowza
>> server and get help right away in the forums. That really sucks but don't
>> see what choice I've got.
>>
>> I would prefer to use red5 but guess like many I've come across might end
>> up putting my bucks into something else.
>>
>>
>
> RED5 is to Wowza what Jazz is to Rock - you have to come to it, it doesn't
> come to you!!!
>
> Red5 doesn't offer paid support because of the nature of the project. There
> is no central company behind the project with people who can provide that
> support, hence the mailing list.
>
> missing documentation has always been a problem for Red5 going right back
> to the early days, the problem is that the people who do know what they're
> doing simply don't have time to write it. Attempts have been made (by me
> included) to put this right, but we all just seem to get caught up with
> other work or often with life stuff and it just never gets finished.
>
> don't suppose there's anything stopping someone creating a company, writing
> the documentation and creating a Red5 version of the Wowza model, i don't
> htink there's anything in the licence to prevent that.
>
> i feel your pain, but it's not THAT difficult to get things up and running
> like i say, it's just whether you have the time to invest.
>
> Right now that's the best i can offer you i'm afraid.
>
> T
>
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