Thursday, April 26, 2012

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


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