Flash Media Server 4.5 will set the stage to expand online content libraries and give audiences more choice and access to the content they want, Adobe says.
RTMP delivery through Flash Media Server has supported the largest live events in the world such as Obama's Presidential Inauguration, the World Cup and the Royal Wedding, and with Flash Media Server 4.5, HTTP streaming will help ... [ read the full article ]
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Quote: it will provide the streaming video in the MPEG-2 format through HLS.
LoL...really? MPEG-2? Why don't they just send out a laserdisk? I am not a big fan of limiting a device to HTML5 with no Flash, but if you are going to market to a device like that, use HTML5...using MPEG-2 just makes Adobe look bad because iOS users think, "This looks like crap and a 2 minute clip just used up all my data for the month...Flash sucks"
Quote: it will provide the streaming video in the MPEG-2 format through HLS.
LoL...really? MPEG-2? Why don't they just send out a laserdisk? I am not a big fan of limiting a device to HTML5 with no Flash, but if you are going to market to a device like that, use HTML5...using MPEG-2 just makes Adobe look bad because iOS users think, "This looks like crap and a 2 minute clip just used up all my data for the month...Flash sucks"
Sorry, that's actually a bit misleading. I didn't mean they encode it to an MPEG-2 video file and send it, it's how the content is wrapped. Of course, the media server software will still send an AVC/H.264 video stream to an iOS device, it just can't do so in the FSF container because iOS doesn't support it.
The reference to MPEG-2 is actually avoided completely in the press information, though its reported by most media (ZDNet, Newsfactor etc.) but ye I'll change that so it doesn't make people think Adobe software is going to convert a 1080pH.264 video stream to MPEG-2 video and try send it to their iPhone ;-)
