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[twanbaten]

Hi all,

The problem:
I am a student software engineering and need to make realtime (partial) screen
streaming possible, as well as realtime webcam streaming and realtime whiteboard
(drawing-panel in application) streaming. As I have no relavant
experiance in this matter I ask you for your help.

My Goal:
Ideally, the solution would stream video and audio (screen, webcam and whiteboard)
to flowplayer (open-source flash player for web) from an JAVA-applet or
JAVA-application with 30 fps. Also, the video is recorded and saved on the
server in flv and mpeg format. The solution must be completely free and and must
have as few copyright-restraints as possible.

I have been thinking of capturing the screen as an image, send it to
the server through RMI (Remote Method Invocation). The browser could then
request the new image via AJAX, but this is quite slow and I have not used
flowplayer. Also, this does not support a high frame-rate. For the audio I have not yet found/searched a solution.

I have no idear how major screen sharing software works. If someone knows, I would be glad to read.

Greetings,
Twan

[Vladimir]

You probably need Red5 - Open Source Flash Server: Red5 (it's the best choice for Java).

[twanbaten]

Thanks!, I will look into it.