Video applications for Adobe® Flash® Media Interactive Server can be video on demand or live video applications. Video on demand applications stream recorded video from the server, such as television shows, commercials, or user-created video stored on the server. An organization may have a large archive of videos or be producing new videos regularly. The videos can be short clips (0-30 seconds), long clips (30 seconds to 5 minutes), or very long clips (5 minutes to hours long).

Live video applications stream live video from the server to users, or from one user to the server and then on to other users. Live video is typically used for live events, such as corporate meetings, education, sports events, and concerts, or delivered continually, for example, by a television or radio station. You can use Adobe Flash Media Encoder, available from Adobe.com, to encode and stream live video.

• Connecting to the server
• Managing connections
• Recorded streams
• Handling errors
• Playlists
• Multiple bit rate switching
• Detecting bandwidth
• Detecting stream length
• Buffering streams dynamically