Recording a video stream from the webcam...

I did not copy the list, so here we go.

 

 

On Jan 3, 2008 8:56 AM, David Temes <dtemes@...> wrote:

For the moment I have tryed to avoid using databases or any other kind of storage shared between php and red5, althoug this will change in the near future, as I would like to store (optionally) some info as title, creators email and comments of recorded videos, and of course show this information in the playback page.

 

Here are some facts about my app:

 

1. I pass token information to flash via parameters passed to the swf, take a look at the html generated code.

 

2. The tokens have two parts: a file name and a md5 hash. The first part is the "movie name" and is 12 chars long. The md5 hash is calculated from the file name plus a "known password" that is both used in php and the red5 java app. PHP has a md5() function so using it is quite straightforward.

 

3. In the swf I pass the _root.token as parameter in the netconnection.connect method. some very basic client side logic is included not to even try to connect to the server if there is no token.

 

4. I check the validity of the token server side, and reject the connection if it is not valid. It's just a matter of taking the first 12 chars of the token, recreating it and comparing the passed token string and the created one.

 

5. I use different keys to create and check tokens for record and playback

 

6. I use different scopes to record and playback, this makes things easier in the server logic. At filesystem level I have created a symlink so that app/playback points to app/record

 

7. Here are some links with info I used for the development:

    Security: http://www.joachim-bauch.de/tutorials/red5/HOWTO-Security.txt

    database connection: http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/617/1/Streaming-and-database-connection-with-red5-media-server/Page1.html

    red5 api: http://dl.fancycode.com/red5/api/

 

Let me know if you have specific questions about the php part. I hope this is useful, and BTW, don't hesitate to contact me with feedback about my web.

 

David Temes.
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Hello David,

 

I was just looking at your website for recording videos using PHP and RED5.

 

I have been playing around with the recording piece as well but have been struggling with

the PHP token generating portion.

 

What I want to do is store the generated token in MySQL.

 

Are you using cookies in your app?

 

Did you use a tutorial somewhere as your point of reference for developing your app.

 

I realize you don't want to release any of your PHP code for this app and I understand that

so if you have a tutorial you used for the php side I would appreciate it if you could point me

to the tutorial.

 

I can figure out the Java part.

 

Regards,

 

Lenny

 

I plan on doing something like your app wth Flex 2.

 

Here is the url to my RED5 examples. they have pretty much been done with

Java and RED5.

 

On 1/3/08, David Temes <dtemes@...> wrote:

The flash part is based on the red5 demos, I will upload the .fla files to the server and publish the url to get them, but i prefer not to release the php or server java code, but feel free to ask, I am open to contribute to other projects and help people as much as i can (both in terms of time availability and knowledge, I am a red5 beguinner myself)

 

Here are the flash player and recorder:

 

www.tucam.net/source/player.fla

www.tucam.net/source/recorder.fla

 

David Temes. 

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Subject: Re: [Red5] Recording a video stream from the webcam...

 

Hi

 

Is the sourcecode for tucam.net available?

 

Regards,

  Steffen

 

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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:52 AM
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have you already seen the simplerecorder flash demo?

 

Take a look to my web site to see if it's something similar to what you are looking for: www.tucam.net

 

Also it's not clear if you need help with flash or with the server, do you have red5 working?

 

David Temes. 

 
Vía Augusta, 59
08006 Barcelona (SPAIN)
+34 93 415 25 26
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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:56 AM

Subject: [Red5] Recording a video stream from the webcam...

 

Hello everyone,

 

I need a little help with Red5/Flash and I'm willing to pay for it.

 

I need a simple browser based flash application that records a video stream straight from the user's webcam and stores it as a video clip on my server. I've seen a few samples but none of them does exactly what I need and my Java/Flash/AS skills are close to zero.

 

The closest sample to what I need (that I could find) is this post by Carl Sziebert but I wasn't able to get it running (I'm probably missing some installation steps that may be considered trivial to folks who are experienced with Red5).

 

All I need is a working sample, whether it is Carl's or some other, and I can take it from there. I just need to skip the learning curve and, as I said, I'm willing to pay for the help.

 

If you think you can help me with this, please little 'r' me to jf [at] fzula [dot] com.

 

Thanks in advance,

            Judd

 

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Hey Lenny,

 

I have a ton of experience in PHP and Perl.  If I know more about the token you are generating and how you want to interact with the database I can probably help.

 

I have a database class that my friends and I built for www.thecollegeproject.com that makes it pretty easy to interact with MySQL using associative arrays.  If you let me know more about the problems in php I would be glad to try and help.

 

My situation is the reverse; I know a lot about PHP and am having trouble learning actionscript.

 

On 1/3/08, David Temes <dtemes@...> wrote:

I did not copy the list, so here we go.

 

 

On Jan 3, 2008 8:56 AM, David Temes <dtemes@...> wrote:

For the moment I have tryed to avoid using databases or any other kind of storage shared between php and red5, althoug this will change in the near future, as I would like to store (optionally) some info as title, creators email and comments of recorded videos, and of course show this information in the playback page.

 

Here are some facts about my app:

 

1. I pass token information to flash via parameters passed to the swf, take a look at the html generated code.

 

2. The tokens have two parts: a file name and a md5 hash. The first part is the "movie name" and is 12 chars long. The md5 hash is calculated from the file name plus a "known password" that is both used in php and the red5 java app. PHP has a md5() function so using it is quite straightforward.

 

3. In the swf I pass the _root.token as parameter in the netconnection.connect method. some very basic client side logic is included not to even try to connect to the server if there is no token.

 

4. I check the validity of the token server side, and reject the connection if it is not valid. It's just a matter of taking the first 12 chars of the token, recreating it and comparing the passed token string and the created one.

 

5. I use different keys to create and check tokens for record and playback

 

6. I use different scopes to record and playback, this makes things easier in the server logic. At filesystem level I have created a symlink so that app/playback points to app/record

 

7. Here are some links with info I used for the development:

    Security: http://www.joachim-bauch.de/tutorials/red5/HOWTO-Security.txt

    database connection: http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/617/1/Streaming-and-database-connection-with-red5-media-server/Page1.html

    red5 api: http://dl.fancycode.com/red5/api/

 

Let me know if you have specific questions about the php part. I hope this is useful, and BTW, don't hesitate to contact me with feedback about my web.

 

David Temes.
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From: lrsorey@...

To: dtemes@...

Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:15 PM

Subject: Re: [Red5] Recording a video stream from the webcam...

 

Hello David,

 

I was just looking at your website for recording videos using PHP and RED5.

 

I have been playing around with the recording piece as well but have been struggling with

the PHP token generating portion.

 

What I want to do is store the generated token in MySQL.

 

Are you using cookies in your app?

 

Did you use a tutorial somewhere as your point of reference for developing your app.

 

I realize you don't want to release any of your PHP code for this app and I understand that

so if you have a tutorial you used for the php side I would appreciate it if you could point me

to the tutorial.

 

I can figure out the Java part.

 

Regards,

 

Lenny

 

I plan on doing something like your app wth Flex 2.

 

Here is the url to my RED5 examples. they have pretty much been done with

Java and RED5.

 

On 1/3/08, David Temes <dtemes@...> wrote:

The flash part is based on the red5 demos, I will upload the .fla files to the server and publish the url to get them, but i prefer not to release the php or server java code, but feel free to ask, I am open to contribute to other projects and help people as much as i can (both in terms of time availability and knowledge, I am a red5 beguinner myself)

 

Here are the flash player and recorder:

 

www.tucam.net/source/player.fla

www.tucam.net/source/recorder.fla

 

David Temes. 

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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:20 AM

Subject: Re: [Red5] Recording a video stream from the webcam...

 

Hi

 

Is the sourcecode for tucam.net available?

 

Regards,

  Steffen

 

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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [Red5] Recording a video stream from the webcam...

 

have you already seen the simplerecorder flash demo?

 

Take a look to my web site to see if it's something similar to what you are looking for: www.tucam.net

 

Also it's not clear if you need help with flash or with the server, do you have red5 working?

 

David Temes. 

 
Vía Augusta, 59
08006 Barcelona (SPAIN)
+34 93 415 25 26
dtemes@...

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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:56 AM

Subject: [Red5] Recording a video stream from the webcam...

 

Hello everyone,

 

I need a little help with Red5/Flash and I'm willing to pay for it.

 

I need a simple browser based flash application that records a video stream straight from the user's webcam and stores it as a video clip on my server. I've seen a few samples but none of them does exactly what I need and my Java/Flash/AS skills are close to zero.

 

The closest sample to what I need (that I could find) is this post by Carl Sziebert but I wasn't able to get it running (I'm probably missing some installation steps that may be considered trivial to folks who are experienced with Red5).

 

All I need is a working sample, whether it is Carl's or some other, and I can take it from there. I just need to skip the learning curve and, as I said, I'm willing to pay for the help.

 

If you think you can help me with this, please little 'r' me to jf [at] fzula [dot] com.

 

Thanks in advance,

            Judd

 

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The flash part is based on the red5 demos, I will upload the .fla files to the server and publish the url to get them, but i prefer not to release the php or server java code, but feel free to ask, I am open to contribute to other projects and help people as much as i can (both in terms of time availability and knowledge, I am a red5 beguinner myself)

 

Here are the flash player and recorder:

 

www.tucam.net/source/player.fla

www.tucam.net/source/recorder.fla

 

David Temes. 

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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:20 AM

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Hi

 

Is the sourcecode for tucam.net available?

 

Regards,

  Steffen

 

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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:52 AM
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have you already seen the simplerecorder flash demo?

 

Take a look to my web site to see if it's something similar to what you are looking for: www.tucam.net

 

Also it's not clear if you need help with flash or with the server, do you have red5 working?

 

David Temes. 

 
Vía Augusta, 59
08006 Barcelona (SPAIN) 
+34 93 415 25 26
dtemes@...

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From: judd@...

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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:56 AM

Subject: [Red5] Recording a video stream from the webcam...

Hello everyone,

 

I need a little help with Red5/Flash and I’m willing to pay for it.

 

I need a simple browser based flash application that records a video stream straight from the user’s webcam and stores it as a video clip on my server. I’ve seen a few samples but none of them does exactly what I need and my Java/Flash/AS skills are close to zero.

 

The closest sample to what I need (that I could find) is this post by Carl Sziebert but I wasn’t able to get it running (I’m probably missing some installation steps that may be considered trivial to folks who are experienced with Red5).

 

All I need is a working sample, whether it is Carl’s or some other, and I can take it from there. I just need to skip the learning curve and, as I said, I’m willing to pay for the help.

 

If you think you can help me with this, please little ‘r’ me to jf [at] fzula [dot] com.

 

Thanks in advance,

            Judd

 

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