VideoWhisper-Red5-RTMP-Webapp

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The VideoWhisper RTMP applications are deployed on RTMP servers as part of the installation of VideoWhisper Webcam Applications. This application is for Red5 server.

Installation Instructions for Red5 VideoWhisper RTMP Applications

1. Make sure you have Red5 1.0.5 or higher installed, functional and accessible.
2. Copy contents to a videowhisper folder in your "webapps" folder in your Red5 installation folder. Verify that you have webapps/videowhisper/WEB-INF/ .
3. Restart Red5 server. This is usually done with "service red5 restart" but sometimes you need to kill existing process.

VideoWhisper Red5 Settings

1. Edit WEB-INF/red5-web.properties from application folder: Variable and Default Value Description

• acceptPlayers=true accept external flash players to connect by rtmp and play a stream without providing username
• recordEverything=false record all streams as flv files for archiving purposes (can use a lot of space); see options below for setting record path
• recordPath=videowhisperStreams/ path to recordings, all recorded streams can be found here
• playbackPath=videowhisperStreams/ path to video files for playback, use same to be able to play recordings
• absolutePath=false provide paths as relative or absolute; set this as true if you want to provide an absolute path like /home/mysite/public_html/archive or c:/www/archive
• allowedDomains= set comma separated domains that can host swf to use this rtmp address (videowhisper.com, videochat-software.com); leave blank to allow connections from all domains
• withLogging=false enable debug logs
• logFilename=videowhisper log file prefix Make sure you do not leave ending spaces.

To configure a streams storage folder in a public web location configure something like:

• playbackPath=/home/account/public_html/streams/
• recordPath=/home/account/public_html/streams/
• absolutePath=true

2. Restart Red5 server or just the VideoWhisper application from the Red5 Admin.

Troubleshooting Red5

• ps aux | grep red5 = find out if red5 process is running;
• • there should be only one java red5 process and the grep process ;
• • if multiple processes are running kill all with kill -9 {process id} then start red5 again;
• • if multiple are running first one is bound to ports and not aware of new applications added (kill it)
• netstat -anp | grep 1935 = find out if red5 is listening on rtmp port 1935;
• also you can check web port 5080 if you need to use http://yourserver:5080/ to test/access red5 web server