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I’m familiar with publishing/subscribing to predefined live video feeds on Adobe Flash Media Server. How can I allow users to create new streams dynamically? Meaning, instead of providing fixed feeds, users click on “Create Feed”, enter a name, and then anyone would be able to publish/subscribe to that feed.
I’m not looking for a source-code (though obviously that would be nice). Rather, I’d like to understand what I need to do a high-level to get this to work.
Answering my own question:
There is an alternative server called Wowza that lets you do the same thing as Adobe Flash Media Server except that server-side code is written in Java instead of Actionscript or Flex.
Creating new streams (actually chat rooms) dynamically is as simple as creating a new directory
[wowza]/conf/[application-name]and populating it withApplication.xmlwhich you can generate on the fly (Application.xml is described by their usual manual).In other words, you a client simply hits your web server with a request, the request creates the aforementioned configuration files and the client is then free to publish/subscribe to video streams off the new room you just created.
For more information, see the User Manual page 37 (section “Applications and Application Instances”).