Compiling and running red5 flash server on OSX

First, you need to make sure you are using java 1.6. I’m told this method will only work on 64-bit leopard machines, so your mileage may vary. In the finder, browse to /Applications/Utilities and open Java Preferences.app . ...

March 16, 2010 · 2 min · Dave Perrett

Compiling Nginx with flv streaming support on Ubuntu

First, we need to get the latest version of nginx : > wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-0.8.34.tar.gz > tar xvzf nginx-0.8.34.tar.gz > cd nginx-0.8.34 Next, configure it to support ssl, gzip, flv streaming and real-ip. I generally compile it to /opt/nginx-YYMMDD (change the –prefix setting if you want to put it somewhere else) : ...

March 16, 2010 · 3 min · Dave Perrett

Installing Flex 4 (Gumbo) SDK on OS X

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March 14, 2010 · 1 min · Dave Perrett

Flash Lite 'Out Of Memory'

Assuming you are using the Generic Phone, edit the following file : C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\Mobile\Devices\Generic_Phone.xml and change the line <device id="8502" width="176" height="208" heap="1024"> to <device id="8502" width="176" height="208" heap="2048"> Increase the heap value as necessary.

September 27, 2006 · 1 min · Dave Perrett