Installation guide

Flash Media Server 3 has many improvements and new features, including:
• Newreal-timeencryptedcommunicationchannelRTMPE,anenhancedversionofAdobe’s
RealTimeMessagingProtocol(RTMP)
• Newenhancementsincontentcaching
• Newconnectionthrottling
• Newauthorizationplug-inAPIforstreamsecurity
• Betterqualityofserviceforlivestreamingwithdatakeyframes
• Betterdigitalrightsmanagement(DRM)frameworkofencryptionandaccesscontrol
• NewleadaptorAPI,allowingforremotecontentcaching
• NewsupportformobilestreamingtoFlashLite3
• NewActionMessageFormat(AMF)3supporttosendcomplexdatatoclients
• NewInternetProtocolversion6(IPv6)support
• CompletesupportforlegacyFlashMediaServer2applications
• Easiertodeploy,withnewservices,improveddocumentation,andpreconguration
ese improvements represent a signicant step forward, 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 atten the
learning curve and speed production.
The new Adobe Flash Media Server 3 family
ere are three unique versions of Flash Media Server:
• AdobeFlashMediaDevelopmentServer3(freefromAdobe)
• AdobeFlashMediaStreamingServer3(newversion)
• AdobeFlashMediaInteractiveServer3
eMacromedia®FlashMediaServer2Professional,Origin,andEdgeeditionsarenow
incorporatedintoFlashMediaInteractiveServer3asanativefeature.isisasignicant
change, allowing Flash Media Server 3 to operate as either an origin or an edge server to
distributethetracload.FormoredetailsonOrigin/Edgecongurations,seethe“ScalingFlash
Media Server 3” 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
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.Itcanalso
be used for developing advanced streaming or social applications, since there is no functionality
limit.Itcanevenbeusedtoleveragethenew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. ere is a capacity limit on this free server of
ten simultaneous inbound connections. e number of outbound connections is limited only by
your server bandwidth and processing power.
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