Adobe Media Server 5 Professional / Features

Control your media publishing workflows, add redundancy, control access and protection, manage QoS, access advanced video player features, and leverage cloud services by operating your own media origin for both Adobe® Flash® Player and iOS HTTP streaming.

Enjoy support for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), the format for iOS, inside the Safari browser and within apps, including Adobe AIR® for iOS. HLS support includes adaptive bitrate for both live video and video on demand (VOD).

Stream with HDS using the F4F format, based on industry-standard MPEG-4 and supported by Flash Player. F4F support includes adaptive bitrate for both live video and VOD and also supports content protection with Adobe Access software.

Maximize server resources with full 64-bit support that enables more memory cache, better network performance, less disruption, and faster stream starts.

Enable adaptive bitrate streaming on your media player with adaptive bitrate manifest support. F4M and M3u8 set manifests describe bitrates and file sources for the player. Requires Open Source Media Framework 1.6 for Flash Player compatible or iOS devices.

Dynamically segment and encrypt content with the Adobe Access DRM policy for HLS on iOS. Apply sophisticated business rules and policies to support premium video experiences for live, linear, and on-demand video.

Easily encrypt your live or on-demand media so you can deliver HD video and full adaptive bitrate to any Flash Player compatible device. RTMPe is used by major global broadcasters today to protect valuable media content.

Control access to your content using server/player tokens. Flash Media Server can process tokens against separate web services to grant or deny access.

Protect unauthorized video players from playing your video, saving bandwidth costs and protecting your monetization efforts. Use your SWF video player or a new SWF hashing tool to create unique encryption keys for RTMP, RTMFP, and HTTP delivery.

Control access to domains and IP addresses to protect your live or on-demand video streams or communications.

Securely access deep performance metrics, change configurations, and set alarms through customized interfaces supporting web services or within custom Flash Player interfaces, giving you advanced control and integration.

Enable secure video, audio, and data message transport to and from Flash Player compatible devices. The multiway RTMP protocol can be encrypted as well as tunneled over HTTP.

Simplify the delivery and security of your live enterprise events and communication. With the RTMP protocol, multicast and P2P streaming to Flash Player is always encrypted.

Help ensure your video stream will remain playing while managing your storage disks thanks to disk management for live HTTP streaming. You can safely deliver rich, live experiences with rolling DVR windows, time shifting, and instant replay.

Select the right bitrate to start streams quickly, improving the user experience and adaptive bitrate performance.

Automatically provide video players with new or alternate locations if content is missing using built-in redirection in RTMP similar to HTTP 302 redirection.

Get the tools you need to track and generate reports on content delivery, server performance, and access using W3C-compliant ASCII logs.

Increase QoS by taking advantage of differentiated services for RTMP. Administrators can prioritize RTMP network traffic, reducing disruption caused by other network activity.

Help ensure that the viewer experience is not affected when connections are disrupted by continuing to play back from the buffer while the player reestablishes the connection.

Enable adaptive bitrate streaming on your media player with adaptive bitrate manifest support. F4M and M3u8 set manifests describe bitrates and file sources for the player. Requires Open Source Media Framework 1.6 for Flash Player compatible or iOS devices.

Replicate live video more efficiently within your enterprise network by consuming, recording, and republishing multicast streams to additional multicast networks, downgrading to unicast, HTTP Dynamic Streaming, or HLS for iOS.

Monitor the performance of your entire server cluster from a single interface, allowing you to manage the server and perform operations easily on servers, streams, sessions, and clients.

Enjoy support for full adaptive bitrate live and on-demand video to millions of smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs running operating systems such as Android™, QNX/BlackBerry®, and iOS.

Give your audience responsive interactive access to your video stream with high-performance seek, fast forward, slow motion, frame step, and rewind, efficiently using a client buffer to optimize server performance.

Stream your video to Flash Player compatible and iOS devices without reencoding. Leverage device acceleration to maximize battery life and improve quality.

Spend more time with live video events and give the viewer control over your live stream with pause and seek backwards, instant replay, or play from start with robust server DVR support for RTMP, HTTP Dynamic Streaming, and HLS for iOS.

Let viewers navigate video quickly with responsive seeking direct from the Flash Player buffer, which also reduces server load and increases performance and capacity.

Experience full adaptive bitrate streaming with fast, high-quality switching over RTMP to avoid any stuttering or delays caused by CPU performance or bandwidth limitations.

Create new social and game apps with higher quality video and voice communication that can be used across multiple devices that support Flash Player or Adobe AIR, including Android, iOS, and most web browsers and SIP-enabled devices.

Increase capacity and improve fault tolerance for P2P communication and multicast by distributing the P2P introductions across multiple servers that are working together.

Increase the capacity and fault tolerance of your social or enterprise video and voice apps with new server chaining technology that lets operators distribute peer introductions across multiple servers.

Maintain persistent server connections using RTMFP when changing networks, such as 3G to Wi-Fi, between different wireless networks, or from wired connections to wireless connections.

Use advanced access controls to extend the server for custom authentication, monitoring, and media location mapping required for robust deployment into your content delivery network.

Thanks to a server-side programing architecture, develop custom streaming and communication services that integrate within your network, consume or control external services, create server-side playlists, or archive media to disk.

Develop multiplayer games; softphone, voice, and video chat apps; and other large data-driven applications securely within your business while significantly reducing costs through the RTMFP protocol.

Create new social and game apps with higher quality video and voice communication that can be used across multiple devices that support Flash Player or Adobe AIR, including Android, iOS, and most web browsers and SIP-enabled devices.