Red5 (media server)

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Red5
Red5-logo.png
Stable release
1.2.8 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 2 June 2021;9 months ago (2 June 2021)
Repository
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Media server
License Apache License 2.0 [2]
Website www.red5pro.com

Red5 is a free software [2] media streaming server [3] implemented in Java, [4] which provides services similar to those offered by the proprietary Adobe Flash Media Server [5] and Wowza Streaming Engine [6] including: [7]

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The project started in September 2005 [8] and as of 2008 [9] is now maintained at GitHub. [10] Version 1.0 was released on December 3, 2012 [11] and is available under the Apache License (version 2.0). [2]

History

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "red5-server/LICENSE at master". GitHub. 19 November 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  3. "Streaming Live with Red5 Media Server".
  4. "A Comparative Study of Open Source Softwares for Virtualization with Streaming Server Applications, Sritrusta Sukaridhoto, Nobuo Funabiki, Toru Nakanishi, and Dadet Pramadihanto" (PDF).
  5. "Mobile Multimedia for Improving the Administrative and Security Services" (PDF).
  6. "Comparison between Red5 and Wowza Media Servers".
  7. "Red5 media server Development in open source projects: Janosch Oppermann" (PDF).
  8. "Red5 1.0 Final Released". Archived from the original on 2013-01-08.
  9. "Red5 Media Server Development Setup Tutorial".
  10. "Home - Red5/red5-server". GitHub. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  11. "Red5 1.0 final has been released today 3 December 2012".
  12. "[Red5][ANN] Red5 0.8.0 release".
  13. "Red5 1.0.1 Released".
  14. "Red5/red5-server". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-01-31.