this is easier than you might expect.

fix your sources.list
sudo nano /etc/sources.list
...and add "multiverse" to end of all the lines

update apt
sudo apt-get update

get red5 .deb installer
wget http://www.nielsenaa.com/red5-installers/red5_0.7.0_all.deb

install red5
sudo dpkg -i red5_0.7.0_all.deb

fix any dependency issues
sudo apt-get -f install

check it out @ http://myserver.com:5080 . you should see the red5 page!

Attached is the first alpha release of red5node, a little present for the holidays for any drupal webcam developer :)

Unlike the pre-alpha released earlier, this one should be as secure as the components it stands upon- Drupal, Flex, Services & AMFPHP. If you see how it isn't please let me know as I'd like to address it.

The major differences from the prior release are behind the scenes but very substantial- namely fixing gaping security holes. Please try this module out now.

UPDATE - NEWER RELEASE AVAILABLE - GO HERE

Well, I don't know about you, but I don't like it when Drupal modules are released with closed-source SWF files - especially when the SWF file comprises the core of the module.

So this is a bit cooler than adding two numbers together....
Here's my very first bare-bones Flex / red5 video recorder, and a few lessons I learned in creating it.

1) Red5 handles NetSteam's .publish() methods automagically. In other words, your java application does not have to do anything except extend ApplicationAdapter to let you use it from Flex to record video. In fact, if you don't want to tinker with java/red5 at all, you can just use a demo application like oflaDemo as your NetConnection hookup. So if you have red5 running out of the box and do:

Boo-ya! Finally got this working! My "Hello world" red5 app is attached...It's nothing fancy (adds two numbers together and spits it out in the eclipse debug console), but I couldn't find a good template to work off of that used red5 v.8 and Flex w/ AS3, so here it is.

You'll need Adobe Flex Builder set up in Eclipse to run this.

Installation:
1) Unzip myapp.tar_.gz and place myapp/ in ~/projects/red5/dist/webapps
2) Unzip red5test.tar_.gz and place into your eclipse workspace.

Look at you...you've finally got red5 built from source. Now you're getting greedy and want to try developing for it.

Indeed, building at the command line has a nice nerd-factor, but building within Eclipse is wayyyy more practical for plugin development.

We're going to add some plugins to Eclipse:

1) Open up Eclipse
2) Go to Help > Software Updates > Find & Install

I had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to properly configure my Ubuntu system for red5 application development. If all you need is red5 server, go ahead and use the prepacked .deb installer.

However, if you want to build your own red5 apps (or have a generally masochistic personality) you're gonna want the bleeding edge red5 from trunk (v .8 r3 at time of writing).

I've decided it's high time to bite the bullet and learn a bit of our favorite four-letter word, Java. I've been itching to get into some serious red5 development lately.

For those of you not familiar, red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java that lets you do very cool things like flash remoting, sharing objects between Flex apps and Java, and more. What does this mean?

In-browser videochat, multiplayer games that update in real-time, live steaming video recording from your browser to my server, etc. Cool, huh?

So, my plan for getting started has been the following: