Geek.blog » bandwidth http://blog.728media.com Advanced Flash and Actionscript 3 by Andrew Christensen Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:30:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Flash Media Server Bandwidth Checking http://blog.728media.com/2008/07/16/flash-media-server-bandwidth-checking/ http://blog.728media.com/2008/07/16/flash-media-server-bandwidth-checking/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:35:20 +0000 Andrew Christensen http://blog.728media.com/2008/07/16/flash-media-server-bandwidth-checking/ Recently I found out that Flash Media Server has it’s own built-in bandwidth checker. A bandwidth check comes in handy when you want to stream a different quality of video to the user depending on their connection speed instead of forcing them to download a higher quality than they can handle.

I could write up an example for how to use this new functionality, but it would turn out just like the one Adobe wrote up in the FMS documentation.

Flash Media Server Bandwidth Checking

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A very important part of streaming any type of media is the bandwidth. You want to stream the best quality possible, but keep the stream constant. This can be a very tricky thing since all your users will most likely not be at the same connection speeds. Adobe has a great article on the math behind calculating different kinds of bandwidth for one-to-many (video on demand) setups and many-to-many (video conference) setups.

[ via Adobe FMS Dev Center ]

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