Installation guide

eimpactofRTMPEreducedthecapacitybyonly25%to30%onaverage,givensimilarpercent
CPUusage.IfyouaredeployingRTMPE,youcanexpectincreasedCPUusage,butyouwillstill
beabletosaturatea1Gbpsnetworkwithlessthen70%CPU.
Live video
LivevideostreamingfromFlashMediaServerisimpactedbythesamepropertiesasprerecorded
video streamed on demand. e following graphs show the total capacity achieved with live
video.etests(seethefollowinggraphs)weredonewithlivevideostreamedfromFlashMedia
Encoder2usingOn2VP6videoandMP3audiocodecs.
300Kbps live video 700Kbps live video
Comparing with Flash Media Server 2
Flash Media Server 3 nearly doubles the total number of active streams from Flash Media
Server2.Increasescanbefoundinbothliveandprerecordedvideoapplicationsandallow
forsignicantlymoreconnectionsatlowerbitratesthanFlashMediaServer2.
Total concurrent video stream capacity between Flash Media Server version 2 and version 3
All tests were sampled using RTMP. Values for live streaming were sampled at 60% CPU; values for recorded
on-demand streaming were sampled at 20% CPU.
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