Flash H.264 support and new pricing/availability for Flash Media Server 3

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Still no standards...

support from ether of these 2 wieners. I think if these guys want to break into big
time media distribution they need to "actually" support a standard format and allow
streaming from non-proprietary streaming servers. It is perplexing why Adobe
would support a standards based format like H264 and then cover it with
proprietary special sauce. Why bother?

Big content providers are unlikely give it up to one company's control. Microsoft
has been trying it for years and hasn't really gotten anywhere significant.
Hollywood loves standard formats cause there ain't no devil like the devil you know
and they can be pretty sure that they won't get bent over halfway to town with
MPEG 4 (H264).

Funny...MS supports RTSP but not H264 and Adobe support H264 but not RTSP. By
the way, where is VC-1 gaining traction exactly? As far as I can see H264 adoption
eclipse both of these where it counts. Adobe isn't supporting H264 in a significant
way and is unusable for us at least. We have 1800 ISO standard streaming servers across the province capable of streaming H264. Can we use the new Flash player to
play content from them? No!

Can you imagine the cost just for the privilege of using Flash player! Plus the User
Experience with the video playback is a not great yet...audio sync issues, no video
scrubbing and other quirkiness.

Flash has awesome player penetration and they are trying to leverage that of
course, but what market are they aiming at? Telcos are never going to use
FMS...even at the reduced $1000 a pop, it's still way too expensive. Darwin
Streaming Server is free with unlimited streams. And open source, so they can
custom build it into their CDN. Same with movie producers and distributors. MS
and Adobe aren't likely to get anywhere beyond webpage video, which is where
they are now. Adobe might as well have stayed with On2 video.

The only reason we would like Flash to play H264 is because sometimes we would
like to play our streamed content in a pretty Flash interface. But you know what, we
are finding that we can do really amazing things with Web 2.0 techniques, with far
more advantages.

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