Stream video in Java

Question

What is the best way to record and stream live video to many clients? Are there any libraries?

Answer 1

Check out Amazon EC2's streaming service, CloudFront. If you're trying to distribute content to a large number of clients, the elastic cloud trumps any other implementation cost-wise, and can easily be implemented in Java.

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

They have very helpful documentation for developers, and incredibly reasonable pricing for content delivery that easily beats the cost of setting up an in-house solution.