Thread: Is there a open source or another like Ray?

I have been getting my sites working the way I want. And now I am interested in furthering my im/chat capabilities. Right now I have online chat, onsite im'ing, and messages.I noticed that Ray offers a widget to download to the clients computer, to have IM on your desktop.

Is there any other program or script that is compatible with dolphin, that I can intergrate in,with the features as ray pro?

Right now - Ray is decent idea for a Dolphin site - but there are some bugs and issues as you are aware - including portions of it not having available source code (flash).

There is no other alternative that will work "out of the box" with the same features as Ray - at least not yet.

Smoge

So far I haven't been able to get Red5 working. I have the Red5 10 cam for Flashchat. Been trying, but some if it is beyond me.

My long term plans would be to have a chat built using Red5, as it's open source, and would rather see 1000 users on a free server than 1000 users on a Flashcom Server at about $4500/100 users.

I would like to see Ray working on my site anyway, even though I wasn't going to use it. I would probably buy the newest Raypro if I could. Haven't even tried Boonex yet, as I'm not willing to pay for something that I don't know if it will run on my site.

Has anyone gotten the Red5 server working, I have installed Java 1.5, have been totally confused by installing Ant 1.7, and can't get past that. If anyone has ideas, I'm open to them!

John

Originally Posted by jarnolde

Has anyone gotten the Red5 server working, I have installed Java 1.5, have been totally confused by installing Ant 1.7, and can't get past that. If anyone has ideas, I'm open to them!

Yes - we have RED5 (latest subversion checkout) running

We can also do installs of RED5 on peoples servers, if needed - assuming you are using a supported Linux distribution.

There are some things you need to do if you try to do your install yourself. I found that the most important thing is that your java install is correct - with the default java virtual machine being set to the required java binaries. Your server may have multiple installs of Java - as most distribs come with one already installed (if you do anything but a minimal opsys load).

If you would like us to install RED5 for you - send me a PM. I can also try to answer some questions about it here if you want to do it yourself - but in general, it is a bit complex for forum posts.

Rob

We just did a Red5 install for Knuty on his server - it took about 3 hours, with a re-install of Java and configure, ant, and red5 setup to start at boot.

Took a bit longer for Knuty since we had to fix a previous failed install done by someone else.

I think usually it would be about 2 hours to install Red5.

I should mention - our Red5 installs run Red5 as the "red5" user, not root - for increased security - and include a start-up script. Both of these are enhancements not documented on the Red5 support site.

Smoge