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

This post shows how to install Wowza on a server where there is another RTMP server, already installed, i.e. Red5. Run 2 rtmp servers at same time and allow applications to connect on both simultaneously.

First install Wowza Media Server. Update version if necessary.

cd /root/tmp
wget http://www.wowzamedia.com/downloads/WowzaMediaServer-2-0-0/WowzaMediaServer-2.0.0.rpm.bin
chmod a+x WowzaMediaServer-2.0.0.rpm.bin
./WowzaMediaServer-2.0.0.rpm.bin

Then fill your Wowza Media Server license ( a free developer license for 10 connections can be used for testing):

cd /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/bin
./startup.sh

Change rtmp port in /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer-2.0.0/conf/VHost.xml from 1935 to some other port not in use (i.e. 1936):

<Root>
<VHost>
<HostPortList>
<HostPort>
<ProcessorCount>4</ProcessorCount>
<IpAddress>*</IpAddress>
<!– Separate multiple ports with commas –>
<!– 80: HTTP, RTMPT –>
<!– 554: RTSP –>
<Port>1936</Port>

Run Wowza in background. You can also add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local to have it running on each server restart:

cd /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/bin
./startup.sh > start.log &

Now you’ll be able to access wowza rtmp applications with rtmp://your-server:1936/your-wowza-application while red5 applications will be accessible the old way with  rtmp://your-server/your-red5-application .

An example of 2 rtmp servers running on same linux server is the VideoWhisper Webcam Video Recorder.

Red5 Video Recorder
Wowza Video Recorder

VideoWhisper.com released a Red5 open source version for the RTMP application serving the VideoWhisper projects. This can be downloaded from the downloads section including java source code and eclipse project files. Application was tested with Red5 v7 Final.

Red5 is a free, open source, Java based, alternative to Adobe’s Flash Media Server. To install Red5 you need a dedicated server. You can not install Red5 on a shared hosting plan. Red5 is available both for Windows and Linux servers.

Red5 is the free solution to host RTMP if you have your own dedicated/semi-dedicated server or VPS: Download Red5 v7 Final .

VideoWhisper provides managed plans with full installation and setup including  premium rtmp hosting with dedicated ip, free installation of video streaming software (including standard fantastico scripts like wordpress/joomla), unlimited connections on Red5 starting from 10Gb space and 200Gb bandwidth at $50/month.

Great news! Any webmaster can add both video conferencing and online live video broadcasting features to his website without paying multiple license fees.  VideoWhisper runs some incredible cost cutting offers that include 2 different software licenses for the price of one ($25/month or $99/year or $250/lifetime), free installation, 4 months free hosting for lifetime licenses.

2 for 1 Promotion
Order Live Streaming or Video Conference and get an extra bonus license for the other product. For any license (purchased or rented) you can use both software packages.

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Purchase any full, lifetime software license and get 4 months of 15Gb/month RTMP hosting. That’s $132 worth.

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On request we offer 1 free installation or assistance with setting up the product.

Live Streaming, Online Video Broadcasting Software

This live video streaming software is designed for 1 to many video broadcasting.  It is very useful for adding features like on justin tv, ustream tv, mogulus, stickam, blog tv, yahoo live or their clones .

This software was designed for 1 to many video streaming so there are 3 different interfaces:
1. Live Broadcast (for publisher),
2. Live Video Watch (for active viewers, discuss online),
3. Live Video Streaming (for passive viewers, simple live video).

Software is available with PHP source code for easy integration and as joomla component and module. Free trial available for download and testing on your own server.