I have seen a number of tutorials for using Red5 and Eclipse, and most of them tend to be unclear or do not work properly. So here are 2 very simple ways I have used with great success!
*Before you begin this tutorial make sure you have downloaded/installed the latest JDK, Red5, and Eclipse 3 or higher.
Using SVN
- In Eclipse Select Window->Open Perspective->Other
- Then I pick SVN Repository Exploring
- Next I right click in the SVN Repository pane and select New -> repository Location
- Type “http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/red5/java/server/trunk”; in the URL field
- Click finish
- Right click on it when it shows up in the SVN Repository pane and select Checkout
- Then I select check out as project with all of the defaults.
Simple Import
- In Eclipse Select File>Import
- Under General choose Existing Project into workspace
- Browse to your downloaded red5 folder
- Select Project
Thats all there is to it! Please feel free to reply to this post with other ways of setting up Red5 and Eclipse.
View the Red5 official Showcase
Pixelquote(http://pixelquote.com/) is an application based on Red5. It’s a huge Pixelwall where visitors can
simply add Pixels with their Messages.
http://www.ligachannel.com/ is a website of Italian singer. The website uses Red5 VOD Protected Streaming
and audio/video recording widgets.
Dimdim(http://www.dimdim.com/) is an open source web conferencing system that uses Red5. Dimdim is
available for free so everyone- not just big companies with big budgets - can use it. And Dimdim is available
as open source software so you can extend and improve it freely.
ePresence (http://epresence.tv/) is both a webcasting and web conferencing system that supports full duplex,
multi-point audio and video conferencing + desktop sharing. This new functionality has been added by
integrating an Open Source real-time communications platform Red 5 with ePresence Server.
Gchats Visichat(http://www.gchats.com/red5chat/visichat/) is a live video chat community that connects you
with people from around the world. Connecting is easy with public and private chat rooms. With breakthrough
video and voice technology which gives you a real and natural experience.
Zingaya(http://www.zingaya.jp/) is a VOIP server built on Red5 for Flashphone.
Sticko(http://www.sticko.com/) is a multimedia content manager. You can manage your live video webcasts,
photos, and videos from one place. Its a video portal with widgets for popular social networking sites like
facebook, mySpace, Blogger, LiveSpace, WordPress, vBulletin and more.
Sprasia(http://www.sprasia.com/) is a website where you can edit videos and can add effects on top of it and
share it with whole world. You can directly import videos from YouTube and can apply cool effects on top of
these videos. Red5 is being used as a part of their development.
VPlace(http://www.vplace.com.br/) is an E-Learning system with Flex and Red5 with features like file sharing,
nice laser pointer, chat, etcetera and live Screen Sharing feature in process. The website is in Portuguese.
To those of you who are not on the osflash red5 mailing list, Daniel Rossi has updated the red5 documentation!
View HTML version
Download HTML version
Download PDF
Paperblocks v1.0 is a 3D like Tetris game built using red5, flex, and papervision created by Gordon L. Hempton.
What the tutorial covers:
1. Checks out source code
2 .Sets up ant configuration to run server
3. Runs the ofla_demo
4. Works around the code migration that were having
View Tutorial
Tutorial by Dominick Accattato - http://www.newviewnetworks.com
In November of 2007 Sandy3.o and RedSandy were released ! 9 months later we have seen little progress, why? It stands to reason that this should be a project that everyone ( red5 developers…at least! ) would be contributing to and/or developing with…seriously, 3d and multi-user flash applications, wow!
Lets see some cool demos built using RedSandy instead of the standard red5 chat tool and video streaming tutorials, and the run of the mill 3d flash “how to import collada’s”, “using basic prims”, etc…
We would like to know what you think??? If you have any creative red5 or RedSandy demos, tutorials, and resources, please send them our way!
A bit on Sandy
Sandy is the original 3d flash engine that was around before Papervision3D and Away3D and all the others. Sandy3d is an excellent library and it has many features that others do not have well particularly in the easier control of objects and importing all types of files such as ASE, WRL and 3ds in addition to COLLADA which other 3d engines like PV3d and Away3d support although it has been slower in the past 3.0 may change that.
How to build a shared fridge magnets application in red5 by Cary Dunn
Red5 New Application Structure Rundown
Creating a new Red5 application is simple. We just create a new folder in webapps/.
We will create an app called elcMagnets so we create a directory for it and now have webapps/elcMagnets. Red5 expects us to also have a directory inside our new application named WEB-INF/ so we create that as well, and now have webapps/elcMagnets/WEB-INF.
There are 4 default configuration files in doc/templates/myapp/WEB-INF that we will modify and use in our app, so we can copy those over to our elcMagnets directory. (log4j.properties, red5-web.properties, red5-web.xml, web.xml)
You can read up about all the properties and handlers specified in these files here.
For now, we only want to customize these files for our current app. We need to change the webapp.contextPath specified in red5-web.properties to reflect our newly created app. Take note of the virtualHosts parameter and remember to deal with it on deployment to a remote host.
You can download all the files here.
