[Red5] previewing a live stream before its live

[Joachim Bauch]

electroteque wrote:
> Hi there, im currently building a flash based webcam broadcatser 
> application in flex 2, basically a windows media encoder in flash with 
> similar functionality.
> 
> Its been brought to my attention that we'd need to have a pre-roll 
> feature to preview the live feed before it actually goes live. Ive 
> noticed u can send messages via the connect method, is there a way to 
> tell an application if the broadcatser is previewing or going live and 
> then also notify the client end to either get the live feed or a VOD 
> trailer. Thats the idea anyway.

You could keep it simple and use a SO to keep a property whether the
broadcaster is live publishing or not.  Once the clients receive a
sync for a given value of the SO, they stop the VOD and subscribe the
live stream instead.  This doesn't involve any serverside programming.

Joachim

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