Social Media tools
To stay above the fray, online social media applications today need to engage and connect users in fresh and innovative ways. The Adobe® Flash® Media Server family of software with social media tools, provides the rich toolset — and broad reach — needed to create loyal and active online communities. Site members want to be able to easily and quickly share voice, video, and information without the barrier of additional software downloads; Flash Media provides this seamless integration along with high-quality media streaming, protected delivery, robust scalability, and new avenues for content monetization.
Use cases:
- Live text and webcam chat rooms
- Customer support
- User-generated video
- VoIP services
- Video rating and live commenting
- Multiplayer games
ADOBE FLASH MEDIA SERVER FAMILY FEATURES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
Viewing experience
- Bandwidth efficiency — Use only the bandwidth required to transfer the media the consumer is viewing.
- High-quality H.264 video and HE-AAC audio streaming — Reduce your delivery costs by leveraging existing encoded content with support for industry-standard codecs.
- Ubiquitous Flash Player — Reach the widest audiences consistently across platforms, browsers, and devices.
- High-performance runtime — Take advantage of faster Flash Player performance for rendering and video playback, delivering a more responsive interactive experience.
- Reliable delivery protocols — Help ensure uninterrupted media playback with automatic rollover to HTTP delivery.
- Dynamic Streaming — Deliver live or on-demand video at the best quality as network conditions change.
Content protection
- Security and content protection — Manage access to content and protect rights-managed media.
- Media monetization — Dynamically insert ads in streams and prevent skipping or removal.
Interactivity
- Rich interactive features — Enrich the viewer experience with integrated chat, webcam access, SWF overlays, contextually appropriate advertisements, bugs, and VoIP features.
- Speech Search — Use this innovative feature that turns spoken dialogue into timecode-accurate metadata, enabling searchable video content and contextual advertising.
Development and deployment
- Streamlined production workflow — Work seamlessly across the entire Adobe Creative Suite® 4 family suite of software.
- Easy implementation — Get started right away with out-of-the-box deployment.
- Fast media player development — Leverage the Open Source Media Framework to rapidly deploy full-featured media players with built-in Quality of Service, tracking, and Dynamic Streaming functionality.
- Accurate logging — Implement efficient logging, tracking, and analytics to enable reliable monetization of media.
FLASH MEDIA SERVER PRODUCTS
TOOLS AND RESOURCES
- Partners
- Developer Center
- Flash Media Server User Group
- Support
- Flash Media Developer Server download
Product updates
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