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Comparison Wowza vs FMS vs Red5
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2/11/2009 4:56:34 AM
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Topic: Comparison between the three flash servers Flash Media Server, Wowza and Red5
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
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 3.5) |
Wowza Media Server 2 |
Red5 |
Protocols supported |
RTMP |
RTMP |
RTMP |
| Developer edition | 10 Connections (Free) | 10 Connections (Free) | Free |
| Pricing | $4500 | $995 | 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 |
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) |
Flash (RTMP) iPhone (HTTP Streaming) Silverlight (Smooth Streaming) QucikTime/3GPP (RTSP/RTP) IPTV (MPEG-TS) |
Flash (RTMP) |
| Recording |
H.264/AAC to FLV container |
H.264/AAC to FLV container H.264/AAC to MP4 (Quicktime) container |
FLV Only |
| Action Method Format 3 (AMF3) | AMF3 | AMF3 | AMF |
| Server Side | AS2 | Java | Java |