ADOBE MEDIA SERVER
ADOBE MEDIA SERVER
Adobe® Media Server 5 software lets you reach a broad video audience on iOS, Android, and web connected devices. New on-demand and live HTTP delivery simplifies your publishing workflow and gets you started quickly. Adobe Media Server utilizes several formats including HLS and the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) for video ingest and playback.
Adobe invented RTMP in 2002 and at one point 90% of all video on the web utilized RTMP. Today RTMP remains a key format and cornerstone of web live video delivered used by companies including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and others. The Adobe Media Server has, and continues to be, the premier RTMP video server available for global consumers, corporations, universities, and governments.
AMS provides the premier video server technology to help users successfully design, deliver, and measure their live video streaming activities.
Government and global organizations can create live and on-demand content to facilitate education, learning, and information sharing.
Global organizations in fin services, medical, tech, retail, manufacturing, and more use AMS to broadcast live events, CEO town halls, seminars, and tradeshows.
Combining the AMS server technology with numerous global CDN partners allows organizations to rapidly scale and deliver low latency video to users worldwide.
AMS and RTMP provide IOT developers with a proven platform to simplify video management: from surveillance cameras, HODs, dash cams, drones, and more.
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Adobe Media Server 5 Standard software lets you stream audio and video across Web, mobile and other connected devices. On-demand and live HTTP delivery gets you started quickly and simplifies your publishing workflow.
Adobe Media Server 5 Standard software lets you stream audio and video reach a broad video audience across Web, mobile and other connected devices. on Adobe Flash® Player compatible and iOS devices. New on-demand and live HTTP delivery simplifies your publishing workflow and gets you started quickly and simplifies your publishing workflow.
Deliver high-definition video up to 1080p, with bitrates from 700 Kbps up to and beyond 6Mbps, using either H264 or VP6 video codecs, or AAC and MP3 audio codecs
Experience full adaptive bitrate streaming with fast, high-quality switching on desktop, iOS, and Andriod to avoid any stuttering or delays caused by CPU performance or bandwidth limitations.
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.
Get the tools you need to track and generate reports on content delivery, server performance, and access using W3C-compliant ASCII logs.
Deliver video using HTTP and iOS devices without preparing the assets ahead of time. On-demand packaging makes publishing easier by requiring one set of video files to deliver to multiple devices.
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).
Deliver an audio-only stream for mobile devices on wireless networks to prevent rebuffering and meet Apple App Store requirements for audio-only bitrate as part of a multibitrate set.
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.
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.
Stream your media to all devices from a high-performance, built-in HTTP server built on Apache.
Automatically provide video players with new or alternate locations if content is missing using built-in redirection in RTMP similar to HTTP 302 redirection.
Control access to your content using server and player tokens. Adobe Media Server can process tokens against separate web services to grant or deny access.
Protect unauthorized video players from playing your video in Flash Player or AIR application, 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 compatible devices and applications. The multiway RTMP protocol can be encrypted as well as tunneled over HTTP.
Keep your video stream 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.
Generate manifest files more easily and with fewer errors with new tools that eliminate the need to manually create F4M and M3u8 files for live and VOD delivery to a variety of devices.
Maximize server resources with full 64-bit support that enables more memory cache, better network performance, less disruption, and faster stream starts.
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.
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.
Adobe Media Server 5 Professional includes all the features of Standard but additionally allows you to add custom code/apps to both the server and the user applications. This code and apps could be used to synchronize chat windows between server and client, deliver Q&A questions to an audience during live speaker broadcast, or even enable commerce or betting in real time during a sporting event.
AMS Professional uses the unique time synchronization capabilities of RTMP to easily time sync data from apps with the video and audio channels, keeping all data and media content aligned for live broadcast or future playback.
[AMS PROFESSIONAL includes all the features of AMS STANDARD PLUS these unique features listed below.]
Maximize your network using RTMP caching to reduce the load on your origin server and improve the quality of service for your end users. Edge caching is an easy-to-use feature that expands the RTMP capacity of your server deployment.
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 programming 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.
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.
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.
Adobe Media Server 5 Extended software includes all the features of Professional but is designed to let you serve more viewers with scalable high-quality voice and video capabilities in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime that can reach a universe of SIP-enabled devices. Add massive scale with P2P capacity for your social application or enterprise broadcasts.
[AMS EXTENDED includes all the features of AMS STANDARD and AMS PROFESSIONAL PLUS these unique feature listed below.]
Reduce delivery costs and infrastructure for massive-scale live media delivery over internal and public networks using P2P technology built into Flash Player.
Simplify the delivery and security of your live enterprise events and communication. With RTMPE, multicast and P2P streaming to Flash Player is always encrypted.
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.
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.
Package content for a single digital rights management (DRM) workflow that targets the desktop, connected TVs, tablets, and smartphones, including iOS and Android platforms, when you include Adobe Access 4 software (available separately).