title: Production live streaming with Red5 - oflaDemo required?
body: <p>I've just finished putting together a basic flash video chat client that publishes the camera to a stream and receives a similar stream from another client. (Something in the spirit of this <a href="http://sunil-gupta.blogspot.com/2008/06/two-way-av-chat-application-with-fms3.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">blog post</a>.)</p>
  
  <p>The streams are being pub/sub'd to the "oflaDemo" that ships with Red5. </p>
  
  <p>This seems to work fine for my prototype, but I'm concerned about having to use something with "demo" in the name if I were to roll this chat application into production. It seems that the alternative is to essentially re-write that demo, perhaps with a few more features, which doesn't seem right in order to take advantage of one of Red5's core functionalities. </p>
  
  <p>So, my question is: what is standard/best practice for production live streams in Red5? Is the oflaDemo used? Do custom stream brokers have to be written? If I don't host it myself, do most hosts have their own (production-quality) version of oflaDemo?</p>