ADOBE MEDIA SERVER

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Why 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.

  • LIVE STREAMING VIDEO

    AMS provides the premier video server technology to help users successfully design, deliver, and measure their live video streaming activities.

  • EDUCATION & TRAINING APPS

    Government and global organizations can create live and on-demand content to facilitate education, learning, and information sharing.

  • CORPORATE EVENTS

    Global organizations in fin services, medical, tech, retail, manufacturing, and more use AMS to broadcast live events, CEO town halls, seminars, and tradeshows.

  • ENTERTAINMENT BROADCASTING

    Combining the AMS server technology with numerous global CDN partners allows organizations to rapidly scale and deliver low latency video to users worldwide.

  • INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

    AMS and RTMP provide IOT developers with a proven platform to simplify video management: from surveillance cameras, HODs, dash cams, drones, and more.

ADOBE MEDIA SERVER 5.0.17 IS AVAILABLE IN THREE VERSIONS:

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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.

Robust Media Origin Services

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 broadcast streaming.

HTTP Streaming for Web and Mobile

  • Deliver high-quality live and on-demand video to devices and HTML5-enabled browsers that supports HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) video format with full adaptive bitrate can be used without disruption.  
  • FLV over HTTP for short-form videos
  • HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) using the F4F format, based on industry-standard MPEG-4, supported by Flash Player and Adobe AIR. F4F supports content protection with Adobe Access software.

One Encode for Multiple Devices

Publish faster, reduce storage costs, and save time by publishing video once, and then letting Adobe Media Server 5 optimize your media for HTTP delivery with full adaptive bitrate support.

On-demand Packaging for HTTP

Deliver video for HTTP streaming 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 with or without Flash Player installed.

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Adobe Media Server 5 Standard Features

Playback Experience

HD Video Streaming

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

Fast Bitrate Switching

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.

Live Streaming with DVR and Time Shifting

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.

Server Logging

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

Video Streaming

On-demand packaging for HTTP

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.

HLS file format for iOS, with adaptive bitrate support

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).

Audio extraction for HTTP

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.

Stream reconnection

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.

Robust media origin services

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.

HTTP origin services

Stream your media to all devices from a high-performance, built-in HTTP server built on Apache.

Server redirection

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

Content Protection

Token Authentication

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.

Player Binding with SWF File Verification

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.

Access Control Lists

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

Secure Administration API

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

Secure RTMP Protocol

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.

Server Management

Advanced Disk Management for 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.

Multiprotocol Manifest Generator Tools

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.

64-bit Performance

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

Server Logging

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

Network Prioritization QoS

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

Administration Tools

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.

Extensible Plug-in Architecture (Only Available In AMS5 Professional)

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.

Programmable Configuration (Only Available In AMS5 Professional)

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.

Server Redirection

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

Secure Administration API

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

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Exclusive AMS 5 Professional Features

[AMS PROFESSIONAL includes all the features of AMS STANDARD PLUS these unique features listed below.]

Video Streaming

Edge Caching for RTMP

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.

Server Management

Extensible Plug-in Architecture

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.

Programmable Configuration

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.

Communication

Scalable P2P Introduction Services for Flash Player

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.

Peer-assisted Networking (P2P)

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.

High-quality Audio and Video Capture

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.

Support for SIP-enabled Devices

Integrate devices and conferencing technologies with a unified communication application using new SIP gateway services. Connect people to conference rooms, mobile phones, or other SIP-enabled communication services using Flash Player or Adobe AIR® apps.

Scalable P2P Introduction Services for Flash Player

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.

Application-level Multicast

Reduce delivery costs and infrastructure for massive-scale live media delivery over internal and public networks using P2P technology built into Flash Player.

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Exclusive AMS 5 Extended Features

[AMS EXTENDED includes all the features of AMS STANDARD and AMS PROFESSIONAL PLUS these unique feature listed below.]

Communication

Application-level Multicast

Reduce delivery costs and infrastructure for massive-scale live media delivery over internal and public networks using P2P technology built into Flash Player.

Real-time Encryption for Multicast and P2P

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

Scalable P2P Introduction Services for Flash Player

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.

Peer-assisted Networking (P2P)

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.

Content Protection

Studio-grade DRM Packaging

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).