Comparison between the three flash servers Flash Media Server, Wowza and Red5

                            Java video streaming Servers

Briefing:Today I was evaluating the difference between Wowza , Flash Media server and Red5. So decided to write this comparison matrix . This comparison versus all of these three flash servers contain the main features that are uncommon with each other . I have not mentioned the features that are common to all of them . I have tried my best to put correct info but still if you find some thing missing or incorrect then just feel free to send me message using this form . I will keep on adding new points ...

Comparison table

Feature	Flash Media Server(FMIS 4.5)	Wowza Media Server 3	Red5
Protocols supported	RTMP RTMPT RTMPS RTMPE RTMPTE RTMFP	RTMP RTMPT RTMPS RTMPE RTMPTE	RTMP RTMPT RTMPS RTMPE RTMPTE
Developer edition	10 Connections (Free)	10 Connections (Free)	Free
Pricing	$4500	$995 (30 day Trial also available) Daily License (5$) Monthly License (55$)	Free(Open Source)
Supported Platforms	Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 with Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2008 Linux® Red Hat® 4 or 5.2 Runs as a 32-bit software on both 32- and 64-bit operating systems.	Windows Mac OS X Linux Solaris Unix 64-bit Support on all IPv6 Support	Windows Debian/Ubuntu Mac OSX WAR Gentoo
Audio / Video Streaming (live and on-demand)	FLV H.264 FLV MP3 AAC, LC-AAC, HE-AAC Speex	FLV H.264 FLV MP3 AAC, LC-AAC, HE-AAC Speex	(On Demmand) FLV MP3 F4V MP4 AAC M4A (Live) Sorenson VP6 h.264 Nelly Moser MP3 Speex AAC NSV
Multi Client/ Multi Protocol Streaming	Flash (RTMP / HTTP) iPhone/iPad (HTTP Streaming)	Flash (RTMP) iPhone/iPad (HTTP Streaming) Silverlight (Smooth Streaming) QucikTime/3GPP (RTSP/RTP) IPTV (MPEG-TS)	Flash (RTMP)
Recording	H.264/AAC to FLV container MPEG-4	H.264/AAC to FLV container H.264/AAC to MP4 (Quicktime) container	FLV Only
Inbound Live Encoder Support	RTMP (Flash & H.264/AAC)	RTMP (Flash & H.264/AAC) RTSP / RTP / MPEG-TS (H.264/AAC: unicast, multicast, TCP, UDP) ICY (MP3/AAC: SHOUTcast/ icecast)
Action Method Format 3 (AMF3)	AMF3(Uni-directional )	AMF3(Bi-directional )	AMF3
Server Side	AS2	Java	Java

Jar file to exe conversion tools?.

For window OS here i am listing all the tool for converting jar files to exe Executable.

These tools are also used for deployment purpose or setup maker.

1. Excelsior JET

http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jet.html

2. JSmooth

http://jsmooth.sourceforge.net/

3. Launch4j

http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/

4. Install4j

http://www.ej-technologies.com//products/install4j/overview.html

5. Exe4j

http://www.ej-technologies.com/products/exe4j/overview.html

6. IzPack

http://izpack.org/

7. JExecreater

http://www.ucware.com/jexec/index.htm

8. ExeJ

http://www.sureshotsoftware.com/exej/

9. Executer

http://mpowers.net/executor/

10. Jar2Exe

http://www.regexlab.com/en/jar2exe/

11. Advace Installer

http://www.advancedinstaller.com/

12. JExePack

http://www.duckware.com/jexepack/index.html

13. Xenoage

http://www.xenoage.com/jestart.html

14. NativeJ

http://www.dobysoft.com/products/nativej/

 15. JNC

 http://jnc.mtsystems.ch/

 

How to execute your jar file by double clicking on it ?

Any jar package for executing will need a file named MANIFEST.MF which located in META-INF directory in that package. In that file you can tell VM where to find main method of your program to start execution.netbeans by default will generate an executable jar file (I mean JVM executable package and not binary exe file!) when you build your project as Desktop Application.If  you copy only that jar file out side of build directory then this application will not work then the error like could not find main class the program will exit.we can make our normal jar files as executable jars just by add proper manifest file with main class some thing like below.

   Suppose if  you are working with DB application you can specify database driver jar in manifest class-path attribute.


 

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.x.x 

Created-By: 1.x.x (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Class-Path: mysql-connector-java-5.0.6-bin.jar    
X-COMMENT: Main-Class will be added automatically by build 

Main-Class: path.to.main.class