Hi there everyone!
RED5 is an open source flash server written in java. It supports streaming audio, video, recording client streams (FLV only) shared objects, live stream publishing, and remoting. You can find out more about the project here http://osflash.org/red5
I wanted to share this resource with the community because this Red5 project makes a lot of really exciting functionality, usually only accessible with Flash Media Server (FMS) from Adobe, easy to access and develop with.
In my experience of late, I think that enabling the recording of webcams will continue to be a key attractor for sites, and Red5 rbings down deployment costs markedly by simply reducing the license costs for FMS from Adobe.
This is not an advertisement for Red5 or an appeal for modules so much as it is a nice hello and introduction of what seems to be a very viable solution for integrating user generated video in a stable solution.
No everyone will be able to use this software because many shared hosts do not allow streaming servers or 'persistant processes' in shared hosting environments, but with all of the innovation in the last couple of months in the area of using ffmpeg in order to convert video file submissions to flv it seems that more and more complicated processes and cofnigurations are coming into play.