Re-stream RTMP to 5 more FMS

I think going through Graeme's Tutorial would help you understand basics quite well and most importantly make you feel coding is not that difficult - please have a look at it for sure.

Now coming to your question , i want to understand your use case - is it for VOD or for Live?

If its VOD, you can look at edge-origin as Graeme suggested.

Now if its live then i feel edge-origin won't be of much benefit (until unless its DVR)

In that case i would suggest you might have to go coding way. You can either spread the traffic publisher way - meaning let your publishing be restreamed from one origin to many machines OR subscribing way i.e. publish to one server and then use ProxyStream API to stream the published stream to different servers.

I will try to post multi-point publish code if possible here.

You have two options here, you can try to take advantage of the edge/origin configuration of FMS which will require some reading through in the docs and then a proper setup in the player side of things, or you can code that up on the server side. Being that you're not a coder, I would guess the second option isn't an option, but keeping in mind the first option still requires effort to understand how FMS works in the origin/edge configuration and how to connect up to an edge etc.

The first option is quite reliable and should work seamlessly, it's recommended if all you are doing is streaming.

The second option is required if you have anything more than just streaming video, as you'll need to have communication of data going back and forth between servers. Here is a very basic tutorial on that concept in case this is the direction you may want to go or those that find this thread may want to go: Tutorial #41: The basics of connecting one server to another for FMS

There is a lot of information on Adobe's devnet site and the documentation that comes with FMS is top notch, well worth reading through.