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Red5 Plugin for Grails


Continuing with my Grails plugin love fest, I spent several 3-4 AM nights digging into how to integrate Red5 RTMP streaming into my Grails Video plugin. The two options I came up with were:

Leave the Red5 functionality as a separate WAR and use a shared directory which the video plugin would deposit the [...]

Sweet Potato Pie!: A Video Plugin for Groovy on Grails


Hi All, adding to the new found obsession we have for Groovy on Grails, we ripped out a Video Plugin to convert and display flash videos. Hopefully it will give folks something fun to play with on the weekend
You can find information about the plugin on our Grails Video Plugin Page.
And as [...]

Red5 wicked cool


I have been playing around with Red5 Media Server, the open source flash server. I have to say - wicked cool. I’d never be able to afford a working version of Flash Media Server but always wanted to play around with the functionality.
I’m amazed at the way the Red5 developers have been able to reverse [...]

How Healthy is Grails?


One question we get a lot at Cantina is that of whether Grails is a passing fad, or if it is something that has some staying power. We have gotten that question (in some form or another) quite a bit, so it might help to explain where we’re coming from.
I agree with Adam’s thoughts in [...]