The scaleable media server for streaming interactive media applications
Flash Media Server 2 (FMS2) offers the unique combination of traditional streaming media capabilities and a flexible development environment for creating and delivering innovative, interactive media applications to the broadest possible audience. This combination enables organizations to create and deliver a range of basic experiences such as Video on Demand, live web-event broadcasts, and MP3 streaming as well as rich media communication applications like video blogging, video messaging, and multimedia chat environments to let you reach your audiences the way you want.
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More Reach, Less Hassle
Reach the widest audience with the least effort.
Broadest Reach
Flash is the world’s most pervasive software platform, reaching over 98% of all connected desktops, and is distributed through Microsoft, Apple, Netscape, and AOL.
It Just Works
Flash offers consistent media experiences across operating systems and browsers, freeing up your development staff to work on great new experiences rather than creating fixes to work across platforms.
Lower Costs
Bypass the need to encode into different formats and develop multiple versions of your site to reach multiple platforms. Encode and develop once and deliver everywhere with FMS2.
Best Media Experiences
Create and deliver consistent and highly differentiated media experiences.
Seamless Integration
Seamlessly integrate media experiences in your website without having to pop up other windows or browsers for a clean, cohesive look.
Custom Player
Take control of the look and feel of your media player to conform to site design specifications and promote your brands. Build custom players with unique functionality to differentiate your experience and engage and retain your audiences. Showcase your video in a player that reflects your brand guidelines.
High-quality Video
Support for a new video codec offers superior video quality at smaller file sizes.
Instant On
A small, light-weight file format, protocol, and player coupled with a programmable buffer control on the server enable FMS2 streamed media to start instantly when the play button is selected.
Interactivity
Engage your audience with interactive content.
Advanced Seek
Enable your viewers to jump immediately to any part of the video regardless of the length of the video or whether it has been fully downloaded.
Video Hotspots
Embed clickable hotspots in the video to let your viewers display associated content or trigger alternative endings to the content.
Multiple Camera Angles
Let viewers choose from different points of view for deeply engaging, interactive experiences.