[Red5devs] Streaming from custom sources

[Daniel Rossi]

Yes every bit of work counts. Even if it's half-baked I am sure from  
experience others chip in and clean it up where required ?

On 15/04/2008, at 1:10 AM, Dominick Accattato wrote:

> Bravo!
>
> Art, I actually had to take a step back and go read the LGPL  
> again ;).  Regardless, I do believe your correct about "not being  
> under any obligation to contribute back source code to the Red5  
> project if it is not used in an application you release."  At least  
> that was my take on the license just now.  Also, I didn't really  
> know how to say "contribute back" so it sounded rude... I should  
> have been more polite :).  Our company releases a lot of code back  
> to the project so I'm just trying to make sure those on the list  
> stay aware about their modifications to the core.  Thanks again for  
> the patch and I'm glad to know that your group is contributing back.
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Art Clarke <aclarke at vlideshow.com>  
> wrote:
> Just to clarify for folks who may not know, you are not under any  
> obligation to contribute back source code to the Red5 project if it  
> is not used in an application you release.  Please correct me if I'm  
> wrong.
>
> In this particular case, the FLVStreamingReader we developed was to  
> test an approach, which we ultimately discarded, for how to create  
> new streaming objects in Red5.
>
> We previously submitted the necessary changes we've made to Red5 for  
> the approach we are actually taking taking (which is creating our  
> own type of BroadcastStreams, different from ClientBroadcastStreams  
> and PlaylistSubscriberStreams).  You can find that at:
> http://jira.red5.org/browse/SN-87
>
> Now that said, there is a difference between the letter and the  
> spirit of the LGPL, and in the event that this experimental code is  
> useful, it's attached here.  A couple of caveats:
> 1) It was only used once in an internal POC we did, and so I'm sure  
> it has bugs.
> 2) And given that it's not the approach we're taking, please be kind  
> in asking us for support.  I don't know about you guys, but I  
> quickly forget details about code I'm not active in after about a  
> week.
> 3) Lastly, I actually wrote this approach (not Robert, our other  
> developer), and so it really will suck more than normal :)
>
> So, enjoy!
>
> - Art
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Dominick Accattato <daccattato at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Art,
>
> Can you submit that patched FLVReader to JIRA?  Any modifications to  
> a LGPL code need to be contributed back to the project.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Art Clarke <aclarke at vlideshow.com>  
> wrote:
> I was able to get Named Pipes working.  Red5 was able to open them,  
> and I had to make a modification to the FLVReader implementation to  
> remove the code that figures out Metadata when it isn't the first  
> tag in the file; that code seeks back and forth in a file which  
> pipes don't support.
>
> So, take a look around FLVReader and make your own version that  
> doesn't do any seeks (especially backwards), and you may have better  
> luck.
>
> - Art
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Valentin Manthei <mail at valentin-manthei.de 
> > wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I'd like to stream from custom sources, e.g. from pipes, a tcp
> connection, output of a live ffmpeg process...
> I made some experiments with named pipes located in the
> streams-directory of my webapp, but that wasn't successful. Red5
> couldn't even read from the pipe.
>
> Anyone has already done anything except reading flvs from the  
> filesystem?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Best regards,
> Valentin Manthei
>
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