Installation guide

• IntegratedHTTPservertoallowanall-in-onehostingsolutionforyourinteractiveand
streaming applications, defaulting to progressive delivery when needed
• Deliveryofencryptedmedia,includingH.264supporttoAdobeAIRandAdobeMediaPlayer
• NewActionScriptclassesforDynamicStreaming
• ImprovedC++plug-insamples
• Supportformoreplatforms,includingWindows2008andLinuxRedHat®5.2
• DeliveryofmorestreamsandusersperserverwithlessCPU,loweringyourstreamingand
infrastructure costs
• Moreecientaccesstoclientstatistics,usingtheAuthorizationplug-in
• SupportforAdobeExtensibleMetadataPlatform(XMP)metadata-embeddedvideosteaming
• ImprovedSWFverication,withsupportforvalidationfromremotelocations
• Supportforserver-siderecordinginMPEG-4format
• Newloadsimulatortooltotestyournetwork(availableseparately)
• CompletesupportforlegacyFlashMediaServer2and3applications
• Easiertodeploy,withenhancedservices,improveddocumentation,andpreconguration
ese improvements represent the continued evolution of Flash Media Server, giving developers
much-needed toolsforcreatingpowerfulrichmediaapplications.Inaddition,theexpanded
support documentation, easier publishing points, and sample applications that ship with Flash
Media Server 3.5 atten the learning curve and speed production.
The Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5 family
ere are three unique versions of Flash Media Server:
• AdobeFlashMediaDevelopmentServer3.5(freefromAdobe)
• AdobeFlashMediaStreamingServer3.5
• AdobeFlashMediaInteractiveServer3.5
FlashMediaInteractiveServer3.5canoperateaseitheranOriginoranEdgeservertodistribute
tracload.FormoredetailsonOriginandEdgecongurations,seethe“ScalingFlashMedia
Server 3.5” section.
Let’sexplorethefeaturesofeachservertohelpyouselectthebestsolutionforyour
specic application.
Adobe Flash Media Development Server 3.5
is free edition is available from www.adobe.com.Itcanbeusedinproductionforanyonewho
wants to implement basic low-volume streaming or social communication solutions. You can also
use it for developing advanced streaming or social applications, because there is no functionality
limit. You can even use it to leverage the multipoint publish feature, which allows you to create a
live publishing point on your network, inject data messages into the stream, and then push the
videotoalargercontentdeliverynetwork.isfreeserverhasacapacitylimitof10simultaneous
inbound connections. e number of outbound connections is limited only by your server
bandwidth and processing power.
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