For sites and integrations where additional security measures are required, VideoWhisper applications support login session check on RTMP side.

This is used to make sure no clients will be able to connect to rtmp server without having previously logged in with the _login.php scripts.
When a new client tries to connect to RTMP server with a session name, rtmp application will check on the web server if that client session exists. If web server does not confirm that client logged in, rtmp server will reject the connection. RTMP server will also check for a webKey that needs to be configured same way on rtmp and web server: this will prevent connections in case of web domain hijacking.
Notes
- This will disable connections from external encoders (ie. FMLE) and players (ie. JwPlayer) to that rtmp address, as these will not provide a session name to check for validity.
- Usually, each installation will require its own rtmp side that checks session info with that installation. Otherwise you will have to tweak scripts to check on all installations.

RTMP Configuration

RTMP side web session check is currently supported for Wowza rtmp side. Download latest version of Wowza rtmp side, deploy to your server and update these settings in conf/videowhisper-web/Application.xml :

…
<Properties>
<Property>
<Name>acceptPlayers</Name>
<Value>true</Value>
</Property>
<Property>
<Name>webLogin</Name>
<Value>http://installation_url/rtmp_login.php?s=</Value>
</Property>
<Property>
<Name>webKey</Name>
<Value>VideoWhisper</Value>
</Property>
<Property>
<Name>webLogout</Name>
<Value>http://installation_url/rtmp_logout.php?s=</Value>
</Property>
</Properties>
</Application>

 

 

Then restart WowzaMediaServer service. For troubleshooting check Wowza access logs. If errors occur in the error logs submit a ticket to VideoWhisper about this.

Web Configuration

Download latest Video Conference php edition and check these integration files:
rtmp.inc.php – stores session info when user authenticates from vc_login.php ; contains $webKey if you want to change it
rtmp_login.php – called by rtmp server to see if a session name is valid (authenticated); also gets canKick permission to allow user to kick clients
rtmp_logout.php – called by rtmp server when client with a session name disconnected (to cleanup session)

Configure settings.php to use the videowhisper-web rtmp address.

To integrate this on other editions or installations you will need to copy the 3 files mentioned above to installation folder and include rtmp.inc.php in the _login.php scripts that authorize the user.
Other changes could be required depending on particularities of each integration.

Sample Demo Configuration

Installation url: http://www.videowhisper.com/demos/vc_web
Using rtmp address: rtmp://videowhisper.com/videowhisper-web

         <Property>
<Name>webLogin</Name>
<Value>http://www.videowhisper.com/demos/vc_web/rtmp_login.php?s=</Value>
</Property>
<Property>
<Name>webKey</Name>
<Value>VideoWhisper</Value>
</Property>
<Property>
<Name>webLogout</Name>
<Value>http://www.videowhisper.com/demos/vc_web/rtmp_logout.php?s=</Value>
</Property>

 

If you have a FMS account with Influxis, use these instructions for setting up a new application:

1. Create application from Tools > New App Builder or My Applications > Add New Application. Use any name i.e. “videowhisper” and save generated rtmp path.

2. From Tools > File Manager / File Admin edit videowhisper/main.asc file and make sure it has the contents of videowhisper/main.asc (open it with notepad or other text editor). If needed select all from text editor (CTRL+A), copy (CTRL+C), move to form, select all from there (CTRL+A), paste from clipboard (CTRL+V).
Get VideoWhisper FMIS rtmp side from Downloads : RTMP VideoWhisper Applications > FMIS .

3. From Account Settings > Domain Permissions, Set Referring Domain(s), Add New Domain – add your domain that hosts the flash (i.e. your-domain.com)

4. Reset the VHost for your Influxis account so it loads new applications or updates.
In your Influxis account go to My Applications > FCS Administration Console: Connect then go to Maintenance : Adaptor / VHost: Restart .

Measure connection capabilities

To configure flash applications streaming you will first need to determine the connections that most users will have. So test first with your connection and also request other users to test.

So let’s consider this situation determined by http://www.speedtest.net (measure speed to a server close to the location of your streaming server):
Download: 9.43Mbp/s
Upload: 0.49Mbps

This looks like ADSL (in this situation upload bandwidth is 20 times lower than total connection bandwidth).

0.49 Mbps = 502 Kbps (kilobits per second)
8 bits = 1 byte,  so that means you can upload with 62 kb/s  (kilobytes per second)

As you can see, usually, connection is the cause of quality and latency limitations. A server with 1000Mbps connection will theoretically be able to handle up to 2000 x 0.49Mbps streams, so the server is not the problem with your tests, unless you’re on a shared plan and other clients are maxing out the resources.

How to configure flash videochat applications?

Considering you also have to upload audio and other data on that connection, you could setup camBandwidth to 49152 bytes/s (allocate for the compressed video stream).
On chat systems buffering should be reduced to 0.1 so delays are minimized. On 1 way streaming systems, you can use higher buffering to increase fluency in case of connection turbulence.

Flash streaming applications vs Skype

Skype desktop application uses different technology than these web based applications limited by browser based flash technology limitations . Skype uses:
-  p2p connections between all users and also uses fast 3rd users as proxies (not using server – so if you are in the same local network with the other tester or with a 3rd skype client with better connection, it uses the local bandwidth)
-  better codecs to get better quality for same bandwidth (flash player currently encodes only h263 and external encoders must be used to encode h264)

Flash is limited to loading files in certain formats.

To include something else in your flash chats and presentations you need to convert these files to supported formats. Most can be converted to swf.

See these tools below:

authorPOINT Lite Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter for PPS, PPT to SWF

iSpring Free PowerPoint, YouTube to SWF

Google Docs Viewer for PowerPoint, PDF, Tiff

SWFtools : PDF2SWF, SWFcombine, WAV2SWF, AVI2SWF

PDFcreator : Convert any windows printable document (i.e. DOC)  to PDF

VideoWhisper.com upgraded the Live Streaming application bringing several improvements and optimizations requested by users.

Some of the improvements:

• advanced webcam settings (change realtime resolution, framerate, audio rate)
• fullscreen button for video watching interface
• fullscreen on click for embedded plain video stream interface
• generate updated jpg snapshots for each live stream
• timers (displayed on each interface depending on settings) can be used to control access, integrate in pay per view systems
• multiple new options and parameters passed from script side

Also some RTMP application improvements should be mentioned like external player support and live video archiving as FLV for the Red5 application.

Upgrades are available for download on VideoWhisper.com and do not involve any costs for free or paid licenses.

First edition available with the upgrade is the PHP edition. The rest should follow shortly.

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This was originally posted on http://www.videowhisper.com/forum.php?ftid=58&t=Basic-install by rustynails and explains how to installing VideoWhisper Video Conference and all required servers on your Windows computer.

1} A computer
WINDOWS XP

2} A HOME WEB SERVER
I used XAMPP XAMPP.org
Placed in same folder as program files
C:\xampp

3} JAVA JDK SE
Download from http://java.sun.com/
placed in programs
C:\Program Files\Java

Use installer
and set JAVA_HOME

My setup

NAME JAVA_HOME
VALUE C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_13
Don’t use ” \bin ” on end for setting JAVA_HOME

Name JAVA_VERSION
VALUE 1.6

ADD to “path”
;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_13\bin

TIP: utube has a tutorial for this.
key words
” Installing the Java Development Kit for Windows ”

4} RED5 flash server Final Version 7 java6 with installer
Download at RED5 site

Placed in same folder as programs.
my set up
C:\Red5

Set up RED5, run test page shut RED5 off and then load
video whisper.
RED5 Test address
http://127.0.0.1:5080/

5} Download Video whisper stand alone free script APPROX 431 KB

Video whisper is placed in
C:\xampp\htdocs\Videowhisper

Set your ip address in settings.php
C:\xampp\htdocs\vc_php\settings.php

M ine <?
$rtmp_server=”rtmp://my-ip-address/videowhi sper”;
?>

Tip
The name of the folder you place in XAMPP is “vc_php”
IT’s the folder vc_php/contents
not the folder vc_php/vc_php/contents

6} Also the videowhisper_red5 script APPROX 17 KB
MY set up
C:\Red5\webapps\videowhisper

Tip
The name of the folder you place in webapps is videowhisper
It’s the folder inside the extracted videowhisper_red5

Next
Delete this part from RED5 web.XML. You will be disconected
from server if you don’t.

<param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param- name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/log4j.properties< /param-value>
</context-param>

The Location is
C:\Red5\webapps\videowhisper\WEB-INF\web.XML

Once you’re done restart RED5
Refresh XAMPP
Type in your IP adress
http://your-ip-address/vc_php/

To Test locally
http://127.0.0.1/vc_php/

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Premium videochat script hosting plans includes:

• Unlimited RTMP hosting on Red5
  That means streaming can use as much bandwidht as available per plan and there are no limitations for the number of simultaneous connections (other that server load).
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• CPanel
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