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Seminar Recording: Advanced P2P - Object Replication

August 30th, 2010

The recording of seminar I did on Friday 27th 2010.

It includes information mostly about Object Replication and how to start with it. I also explain my P2P VoD project.

Check it out here (42 min.)
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p41024225/
advanced-p2p-connect

Local Flash Peer-to-Peer Communication over LAN (without Cirrus/Stratus)

August 27th, 2010

native-ip-multicast-small Some of you guys were probably wondering how to establish P2P connections in the local network (LAN) without Adobe Cirrus. Yes. It’s possible. Using native IP-only multicast. Let’s build a simple chat with Posting. Adding Multicast broadcast is just a simple next step which I am sure you can accomplish by yourself with few hints from my article about Multicast

Open an IP Multicast connection. This can be done by specifying connection string as “rtmpf:”. Note, that this technique cannot be used for one-to-one communication. So no DIRECT_CONNECTIONS with NetStream, but you can do all RTMFP Group operations.

netConnection.connect("rtmfp:");

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Flash Summer Webinars This Week

August 22nd, 2010

Make sure you don’t miss following webinars this week prepared by Adobe Platform Evangelists. All of them will be live online using Screen Sharing technology via Adobe Connect Pro.

Especially if you are regular reader of my blog and interested in P2P, don’t miss Advanced P2P Programming on Friday - it will be summary of all my recent articles.

This week:

Next week:

Register for free.

Video-on-Demand over P2P in Flash Player 10.1 with Object Replication

July 28th, 2010

In the previous tutorial File Sharing over P2P in Flash Player 10.1 with Object Replication we went through the Object Replication basics. And you can see that the Receiver is requesting packets one by one. That’s not suitable for the real world app, but it’s good for testing on a LAN to see the progress. In the real world app, you can immediately request all packets using NetGroup.addWantObjects(beginIndex, endIndex);.

Transferring VoD video over P2P

Let’s get something real with Object Replication. The use-case I like most is a Realtime P2P Distributed System for Video-on-Demand.
Video-on-Demand P2P Object Replication Scheme
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AS3-P2P-LIB and P2P Video Calls on Android

July 22nd, 2010

I am very happy that the community is getting more and more involved in P2P. I told you, it has endless possibilities! :)

AS3-P2P-LIB
AS3-P2P-LIB is a pure ActionScript 3.0 Library by Dominic Graefen that helps Flash developers get started with P2P easily.

as3-p2p-lib

All Classes | Example | Project page at GitHub

P2P Video Calls on Android

My fellow evangelist Mark Doherty built a great demo app using P2P and AIR 2.5 for Android. Watch this video, where he shows how it works. And btw: I should really teach him how to pronounce my name :) Mark, you are going to get a lesson at MAX 2010!

Check Mark’s blog post for further information.