Video Streaming Server

Show what you have with visual and sound

Traditionally, to present video on the Web, one would have to prepare a single video a number of times in order to please a wide audience, and go to great lengths to explain how to play the video. With Flash Video, your video just plays directly from your Web page!

Flash Player is an embedded plugin 98% compatibility of all internet browsers. It is a preferred method in today's streaming industry because there is no need for 3rd party player download such as Real Player WMP or Quicktime.

With the Flash Video Format (FLV), your video reaches the widest audience possible, because everyone visiting your site can play it without plug-ins, pop-up media players or complex explanations. The Flash Video Format (FLV) is a new video format that takes the hassles out of preparing and presenting video for the Web. It is a format that is designed for web playback, offering high rates of compression.

ReadySpace Flash Video Server uses a new technique called progressive download for delivering video in Flash. Video is being played before download of the video file completes. This is unlike traditional download-and-play methods of video delivery where the file needs to be downloaded fully before it plays.

The Real Benefit of the Flash Video format

From a user's point of view, you don't have to force clients to use software they don't like. I don't know about you, but I don't like it when I am forced to use Real Player--hey, I prefer QuickTime. Then there are those who prefer Windows Media and can't stand using QuickTime or Real Player. The reason for this issue is that none of the aforementioned video players has 100% market coverage... or can be customized for logos, branding, shape, or colors.

This is where Flash has a huge advantage. The Flash plugin is pretty much "standard issue" on all systems, platforms and browsers--nearly 99% of Internet users already have the Flash plugin. The latest release of the Flash plugin offers some advanced video functionality, which Flash Video Server takes advantage of.

Therefore, when presenting video, you do not have to ask the client "which type of video do you want to use?"--you simply present the video... No questions asked. If their existing Flash plugin needs to be updated, no problem; updating the plugin is a seamless process that is not complicated, and takes about 3 minutes.

This is also the same technology being used on such websites as Yahoo! videos, Google video and YouTube as the preferred method of video playback.

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