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michael_prescott
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January 23, 2008
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Flash Media Interactive Server 3

  • January 23, 2008
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Perhaps pricing doesn't prohibit large media companies, but it sure prohibits most developers and small businesses. I'm not interested in trying to compete with the big television networks or Youtube by delivering streaming video, so the $995 Flash Media Streaming Server 3 for video isn't a solution. However, I would LOVE to use Adobe products for my multi-user applications, but Flash Media Interactive Server 3 at $4500 insures that only VERY large budget companies... scratch that... very large budget projects can justify using it. SURELY, a version for small business, low-priced products and services can be released? Or, maybe the pricing is mixed up and the video streaming version is supposed to be $4500 while the version for "delivering interactive social media applications" should be $995?
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    Anonymous
    January 27, 2008
    Yeah, when I saw there were two versions, I started to get excited. The names "Flash Media Server Interactive" and "Flash Media Server Streaming" were confusing, so I went straight to the comparison page:

    http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/compare/

    But remained pretty confused:
    - No mention of connections between the different versions (apparently it is unlimited for both FMSI and FMSS, and the typical 10 for FMSDev)
    - No mention of server side abilities, ie SSAS, RSO
    - AMF3 is only for FMIS? What am I missing that FMSS would be called FMS3 and not have AMF3? Doesn't that make it FMS2?

    So I headed over to flashcomguru.com to see what he had to say:

    "The server now ships in two editions, the Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3 (FMSS) is ideal if all you want to do is serve up live or on demand video while the Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3 (FMIS) gives you access to all features including video recording, server side Shared Objects and more."

    That's disappointing... FMSS is, like you, exactly the opposite of what I wanted. I want the interactive abilities, the ability to easily and reliably push synchronized data to connected clients, and easily write server side application controllers (ie Server Side ActionScript). It looks like that is exactly what FMSS doesn't give you, and FMIS is still prohibitively priced.

    Back to Red5 and XMLSocket servers...
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