flash media server

Flash Media Server Family

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By Avi Tzurel

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Agenda

• Intro

• Media Servers

▫ Understanding what is a media server

▫ The role of a media server in the world of web 2.0

• Flash Media Server

▫ What is flash media server


▫ What is flash media server

� What types of media server we have

▫ Examples for products and websites using FMS

▫ Scaling options

▫ New features

▫ Questions…

Intro

• Online video is absolutely trending right now

• Many websites use video as a primary service

▫ You-tube

▫ MetaCafe

▫ Many more…


Intro

• 80% of online video is played using Flash technologies

• Cross platform

• Cross browser


Intro


What is a media server

• What is a media server

▫ Open socket server

▫ Persistent connection with client

▫ On that connection

� Stream audio

� Stream video


� Stream video

� Stream text / data

What is a media server

• The role of the media server in the web 2.0 world

▫ The ability to stream audio and video to the users with ease

▫ Record user camera and audio


▫ Chat’s

▫ E-Learning

▫ Music websites

Media server family


So…. Let’s dive inside

• Encode

• Protect

• Stream

• Playback


Encode

• Adobe media live encoder

• Used for encoding high quality video for

▫ Sport events

▫ Concerts

▫ Webcasting

▫ News


▫ News

▫ Educational Events

Features / Advantages

• Multiple bitrate encoding

▫ You can encode up to 3 streams in multiple bitrate

▫ Supported by Flash media server 3.5

• System Timecode

▫ Add system timecode to the video MetaData


▫ Add system timecode to the video MetaData

• Intuitive user interface

• Support for on2’s VP6 and H.264

Features / Advantages

• Support for Nellymoser and MP3

▫ You can also use MainConcept plugin and enjoy the support for AAC and HE-AAC


Adobe media live encoder


Who uses it?


Ustream – The process

• Learn more on how they did it…

▫ http://www.ustream.tv/higher-quality


Protect

• Adobe Flash Access

▫ Protected content management and delivery system

▫ Supports a wide range of business models

� Video On Demand

� Rental


� Rental

▫ You can deliver content through Flash Media Server or simply through progressive download over HTTP

Protect


Stream

• The flash media server family has 2 main products for streaming content to users

▫ Flash Media streaming server

▫ Flash Media Interactive Server


Stream

999$ 4500$


Stream

• Comparison of the 2▫ http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/compare/


Stream

• Versions history

▫ 1.0 released 9 July 2002

▫ 1.5 released 27 March 2003

▫ 2.0 released November 15 2005

� Renamed to FMS and versions not reset

� New coded On2’s VP6 in flash player 8 for the first


� New coded On2’s VP6 in flash player 8 for the first time

▫ 3.0 released 4 December 2007

▫ 3.5 released 13 January 2009

▫ 3.6 now in beta (closed beta)

Stream

• The competition

▫ RED5

� Less protocols

� No support for H.264

� No AMF3 support

� Relatively unreliable


� Relatively unreliable

▫ WOWza

� Less Protocols

� Java server side – not AS

Features

• Flash media streaming server

▫ Dynamic streaming

� Offer content to users based on their network ability, deliver top-quality content to high volume network users and lesser quality to others.


▫ Integrated HTTP

� When RTMP is not available you can use http

Features

• Plug and play functionality

▫ Install and play in minutes


package{import flash.net.NetConnection;

import flash.display.Sprite;import flash.text.TextField;import flash.events.NetStatusEvent;

public class FMS3Connect extends Sprite{

private var nc:NetConnection;private var rtmpNow:String;private var msg:String;private var connectText:TextField;private var posX:Number;

function FMS3Connect (){

nc=new NetConnection();nc.addEventListener (NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS,checkConnect);rtmpNow="rtmpe://192.168.0.11/connect";//rtmpNow="rtmpe:/connect";nc.connect (rtmpNow);


}private function checkConnect (event:NetStatusEvent):void{

connectText=new TextField();msg=event.info.code;connectText.width=250;connectText.text=msg;addChild (connectText);posX=connectText.stage.stageWidth;connectText.x=(posX/2)-((msg.length/2)*(6));connectText.y=175;

}}}

So… What can you do

• There’s almost no limit to what you can do with the Flash Media Server Family


Flash Media Server

• Create Games


Flash media server

• Create Games


Flash Media Server

• Rich video applications


Flash Media server

• Rich Audio websites


Flash Media Server

• Chat rooms


Flash Media Server

• Let’s watch some more…


Flash Media Server

• Movie #1

▫ Uses flash media server 3.6

▫ Remote object to show the mouse moves on the screen

▫ Video streaming

▫ Audio streaming


▫ Audio streaming

▫ Online chat

▫ Remote web-service consuming

Flash Media Server

• Movie #2

▫ Online music portal

▫ Streaming audio files

▫ Online video and audio signature for protection

▫ Limitations and security rules


Flash Media Server

• Movie #3

▫ Online E-learning system

▫ Remote object for mouse sharing

▫ Online drawing on canvas and on presentation

▫ User control by the admin

▫ Streaming of audio and video


▫ Streaming of audio and video

Flash media server

• Ustream

▫ Ustream website

� http://www.ustream.com

▫ Using flash media server for distributing data and video


Flash Media Server

• More cool features…

• Record video and audio from user’s camera


Flash Media Server

• More cool features…


Flash Media Server


More features…

• Plug-in architecture

▫ Integrate with other servers, services, architectures

• Mpeg4 recording

• AMF3 support

▫ Data sharing


▫ Data sharing

• Deliver video to mobile devices

▫ Encode video to flash lite 3

More features…

• Logging

• DVR

▫ Pause a live stream

▫ Seek back to another point

▫ Big brother Israel


Target Audiences

• Enterprise

• Government

• Education

• Broadcast and entertainment

• Social media

• Interactive advertising


• Interactive advertising

Enterprise

• Training

• Corporate communications

• Marketing

• Human resources briefs

• Quarterly updates

• Support


• Support

Government

• Town hall meetings

• Training

• eLearning

• Live events

• Press conferences

• Secure media players


• Secure media players

Education

• Journalism

• Remote guest speakers

• Course curriculums

• Live sporting events

• Student government communications

• Rights-managed video downloads



Broadcast and entertainment

• Live event broadcasts

• Streaming TV broadcasts


• In-stream viewer comments

• Dynamic playlists

• Branded desktop media players


• Branded desktop media players

Social Media

• Live text and webcam chat rooms

• Customer support

• User-generated video

• VoIP services

• Video rating and live commenting

• Multiplayer games


• Multiplayer games

Interactive advertising

• HD video banners

• Interactive hotspots

• Promotional games

• Dynamic ad insertion

• Product demos

• Branded rich Internet applications


• Branded rich Internet applications

High Volume?

• Flash media server supports amazingly high volumes of traffic.

• How many users do you have?


High Volume?

• Thousands?


High Volume?

• User reaches the “edge” server.

• The edge server functions as a proxy between the origin server and the client.

• The origin server’s role is to control


• The origin server’s role is to control Authentication and to host the files.

High Volume?

• Millions?


High Volume?

• User reaches a cluster or load balancer.

• This cluster can be a self healing cluster


High Volume?

• Monitor


3.6 features

• P2P Video

• P2P Audio


Questions…


Contact Us

• Yossi Cohen

▫ [email protected]

▫ 09-8850956, 0545313097

• Avi Tzurel




▫ 09-8850956, 054-5960553

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