Flash and client audio recording

Recently, I have been looking at recording audio from an embedded flash program and encoding that onto a server. There are so many different resources out there that it can be confusing. I just wanted to share some of the free and/or open source tools that I have found out there. Please feel free to share any tools that you use.

• Red5 (Flash Media Server Alternative):
  

  Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java that supports:
  

  • Streaming Audio/Video (FLV and MP3)
  
  
  • Recording Client Streams (FLV only)
  
  
  • Shared Objects
  
  
  • Live Stream Publishing
  
  
  • Remoting (AMF)
  
  
  
  



• ffmpeg (Media Encoder):
  FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most operating systems, including Windows.



• Audacity (Audio Recorder/Editor):
  Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.