How to transfer real-time video through Socket using Flex / ActionScript 3?

Question

My requirements are similar to this old 2009 question . I am just rewriting since the OP is kind 2 years old and the question is now closed.

How to stream streaming video through Socket using Flex / ActionScript 3.0?

I am developing an application that works with P2P architecture, so I cannot use FMS for real-time streaming. I read about NetConnection and NetStream classes , but I can’t use them, since all the examples use FMS. How am i doing this?

Secondly, I also need a suitable library / tool / technique for encoding (& decode) video frames before displaying and transmitting. I read the X264 codec for this, but using this with Flex seems too complicated. Any other alternatives?

Any tutorial / blog will be very helpful ...

Answer 1

You can send data directly to a remote computer; however, this machine must be tapped, and if you are not using Air, this machine needs a socket policy file. Obviously, it is impossible to connect several machines directly to each other without a policy file, forces you to have a central server and prevents direct implementations in p2p chat / video / (w / e) applications in the browser.

So you should have a central server; however, you do not need to pay for them.

I knew I read something about this, so I searched google and came up with the links below.

http://haxe.org/doc/flash/peer2peer

https://github.com/OpenRTMFP/Cumulus

All you need is a developer key, which Adobe gives for free:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=stratus

With that said, you need to know some C ++ to take advantage of this.

If you want to learn how to do something basic to get started, and you are really interested in creating something for your local network, then these articles describe how to make RTMFP as a multicast group.

http://www.flashrealtime.com/videotutorial-remote-device-controller/

http://www.flashrealtime.com/local-flash-peer-to-peer-communication-over-lan-without-cirrus/

[EDIT: Content for the last two links since the site deleted these pages can now be found using waybackmachine and snapshots in early 2011]

There are tons of things you can do with the information above; However, I would start small.

Answer 2

In any case, you will need a media server, be it FMS or SmartFox, or both, and both sides are connected to the server. He will also deal with coding. I do not think you can do this without a media server between ...