I installed Red5 1.0 on EC2 running Linux. My goal is to record video from a webcam from my site - connect to a user's webcam and save the video to S3.
I tried the VCR application in pre-installed demo applications. It works, but when I play the recorded video from FLV, the quality is terrible.
- At best, the video is extremely uneven and blurred with motion
- In the worst case, the video does not even play - it just stays on one frame
- Most often, video and audio are completely out of sync and unstable. I found that I can affect this by increasing the number of buffers on the server using one of the configuration files, but increasing the buffer seems to cause the video to become intermittent.
I tried to connect to several computers and even to a fast corporate Internet connection. Interestingly, quality problems persist even when connected to the local host, so this does not seem to be a network problem.
When I use the red5-recorder.com flash application to write a demo server application, the quality is even worse.
Ultimately, I just want to get high-quality video from a visitor’s webcam, but I don’t want to throw money away for FMS or Wowza.
Any ideas on how to get Red5 to record high quality? Is it always that bad?
Thanks for the help!
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