Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming

The release of the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2 runtimes introduces support for HTTP Dynamic Streaming for on-demand and live video streaming online. This new delivery method enables on-demand and live adaptive bitrate video streaming of standards-based MP4 media over regular HTTP connections. This capability gives content creators, developers, and publishers more choice in high-quality media delivery while maintaining the reach of the Adobe Flash Platform.

While the Real Time Message Protocol (RTMP) remains the protocol of choice for lowest latency, fastest start, dynamic buffering, and stream encryption, HTTP Dynamic Streaming enables leveraging of existing caching infrastructures (for example, content delivery networks, ISPs, office caching, home networking), and provides tools for integrating content preparation into existing encoding workflows. In addition, robust and flexible content protection is available with Adobe Flash Access 2 software.

Both on-demand and live delivery are supported with HTTP Dynamic Streaming. The content preparation workflow for each is slightly different. On-demand content is prepared through a simple post-encoding step that produces MP4 fragment files along with a manifest file.

You can download VOD File Packager from Adobe web-site. Live stream delivery requires real-time fragmenting and packaging server that will package and protect a live RTMP stream from virtually any live encoder supporting RTMP today, including the free Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder.