In the last seven months some web hosting companies have started to offer shared red5 hosting on most their hosting plans. Although offering red5 means high quality servers and availability of large bandwidth the quality of the new servers available means that it is now possible to offer it.
This trend is due that red5 hosting is a necessary component for video streaming, and it has become popular on community sites, users spend hours watching video chat type sites which offer 2 way video chat or conference video.
The software’s on this servers offering red5 hosting are essentially ffmpeg, Mencoder, Mplayer, Libvorbis and Lame MP3 Encoder. With red5 shared hosting, the users are also bestowed with quick, near perfect and secure conversion of their video files to flv format which is then show on the browser with no need to upload anything on your computer.