A playlist is a list of streams to play in a sequence. The server handles the list of streams as a continuous stream and provides buffering, so that the viewer experiences no interruption when the stream changes.

You can define a playlist in your client-side code. To do so, call NetStream.play() and specify stream names as parameters to the NetStream.play() method. The play() method is described in detail in the ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference and the ActionScript 2.0 Client Language Reference Addendum.

Because you call play() from a NetStream object, and a NetStream object is associated with a NetConnection object, all streams in a playlist originate from the same server.