Examining Robust HLS and HDS Video Playback with Adobe Media Server 5

Adobe Media Server 5, a core component of Adobe’s Project Primetime, helps premium content publishers deliver HD quality video across platforms, including iOS and Android devices, to the largest possible audience with a streamlined workflow. We’re revolutionizing media delivery with support for consistent, protected streaming across any Internet-connect device — tablets, smartphones, connected TVs, and desktops.

With our video solutions like Adobe Media Server 5, we’re focused on enabling an optimal online video playback experience where the consumer gets what they want – when and how they want it. Related to this topic, we’ve published a technical article for video content publishers around HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). The article examines today’s video playback architecture and server-side challenges, including back-end redundancy issues such as live-ness, where a packager advertises a stale view of live, and dropout, where a packager has gaps in its fragment list. We also provide users with a step-by-step guide to writing a basic varnish configuration script to configure a Varnish proxy for the failover solution. (Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator, occasionally referred to as a HTTP accelerator or a reverse HTTP proxy, that will significantly enhance your web performance).

Check out the article and let us know what you think!

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Adobe Flash Platform Advances thePlatform’s Delivery of Online Video

Adobe and thePlatform (an independent subsidiary of Comcast) recently announced a partnership to provide media companies with advanced solutions to protect their videos and manage assets globally across PCs, mobile devices and TVs using Adobe Flash Platform technologies. thePlatform decided to use the Flash Platform because it met their customers’ needs for secure, cost-efficient and high-quality video distribution.

As a leading online video management and publishing company, thePlatform delivers millions of videos per day with the Flash Platform powering its mpx video management system. Most of thePlatform’s customers and partners deliver video content using Adobe Flash Player. Check out why and learn more about thePlatform’s story here.

thePlatform’s mpx video management system, powered by the Adobe Flash Platform

Geo restrictions on media are so 2001!

I know I ranted about this topic before… But this just keeps bugging me. Here’s a question for you: When a large percentage of web users know how to circumvent geo restrictions on media files, what’s the point of even having geo restrictions?
I understand that copyrights need to be negotiated in every single country and [...]