“New version of Flash Media Server offers expanded, dynamic protocol support, including HTTP Live Streaming to iDevices, as well as DRM enhancements.
What’s a broadcaster to do? While mobile video delivery grabs headlines, the number of actual users for mobile broadcast content is just a tiny fraction of those viewing content on a desktop or laptop machine. For that larger installed base of customers, mature delivery solutions like RTMP allow features that HTTP delivery solutions could only dream of. At least until now.
Today, Adobe announced the release of Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5, hoping to bridge the gap between mobile/HTTP delivery and the feature set of RTMP that most broadcasters rely on. Almost a year to the day after the company announced its first HTTP Dynamic Streaming solution, FMS 4.5 provides significant enhancements, plus the ability to send content to Apple iPad/iPhone/iPod touch devices via HTTP Live Streaming (a.k.a. HLS).”