Clint Bodine

Couldn't perform live

• October 13, 2013
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I needed to broadcast a live lecture over the weekend, so I experimented with Red5. I took the default AMI and send 2 streams from FMLE. I never listened to the audio, but I ran the video for a few hours and everything seemed fine. Friday night I started the live broadcast. I noticed that the audio was "glitchy" (momentary drops and digital artifacts). People were still able to listen to the lecture though. The bigger problem is that after an hour, the entire feed started pausing and picking up a few seconds later. These pauses started getting longer and longer until the feed was well over a minute or more behind live. I had two other user provide feedback about the same problems.

After the Friday night broadcast, I took a default Wowza image and configured the web player to use it. I broadcasted for 2 2-hour sessions and had no problems. The audio was perfect and the stream never paused.

Both servers were built on m1.small instances and there was no extra configuration of the software. My broadcast set up was exactly the same. In addition, with Wowza, I was able to broadcast to my iPhone.

I'm a big fan of open source projects, but I don't think Red5 is ready for prime time.

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