Live streaming using Flash

Question

I was working on an application that streams live video using Flash client and Wowza media server.

As of now, I use an independent desktop based encoder(Flash Media Live Encoder) to publish my live stream.

I wanted to know if it is possible to do the encoding part in the browser? My application would be a used by many to publish their streams so I cannot ask everyone to use FMLE to publish.

I was wondering how do the other web based video chat applications do the encoding part over the web.

Please help. Thanks

Answer 1

Flash Media Server supports accepting a video stream from the browser and pushing it out to other clients live. I don't know if Wowza has this functionality though.

Answer 2

Look at VideoIO. I'm using it successfully with Wowza Media Server.

Answer 3

If you want to enable screen sharing from the browser, you can also use red5-screenshare it works fine with Wowza server also.