difference between freeswitch and red5

Question

Firstly I just want to know that what is the difference between freeSwitch and Red5?

As I have very good working experience with red5 and I have made many app's that streamed video/audio using Red5.

But now I am not able to understand that If Red5 can do video/audio conferencing or streamed live video then what is the use of FreeSwitch in conferencing or in other things.

I want to make a app in PHP or rails or Django(Python) where users can record their voice by participating in conference and while recording, the voice of all users will be broadcast to other members.

So now I really want to know what will be the right solution to do this?

Answer 1

FreeSWITCH is primarily a telephony application server. So, it is oriented on solving the telephony tasks. There is also support for WebRTC, and some work is being done for video conferencing.

What you can easily do with FreeSWITCH, is allowing users join your Red5 conference from the telephony network.