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Best Flash Media Server Alternatives for Video Sharing Sites

mirrorking — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:54:32 +0000

Most of medium and small video sharing sites only need a server side application that can help to stream live content using Flash and encode FLV. In that case, affording powerful Adobe Flash Media Server is not necessary, not to mention it is not that affordable.

So it comes with lots of similar questions, just like “is there any cheap alternative to Flash Media Server?”

There always be.

First, let’s talk about the well-known Flash Media Server alternatives Red5, Mammoth and Wowza.

Although many users complain that Red5 is not easy to setup, very hard to use and do not offer any helpful tutorial, it is still a top choice for free alternative.

Red5 is an open source Flash server that is written in Java and supports:

• streaming audio/video (FLV, MP3, F4V, MP4, AAC, M4A)
• recording client streams (FLV only)
• shared objects
• live stream publishing (Sorenson, VP6, H.264, MP3, AAC and more)

It has installers for OSX and Windows. Also, it can be downloaded as a zip file to be used in any OS.

Learning from Red5 code, Mammoth is also an open source Flash streaming server that is built with C++ and can run on Windows and *nix OSs. It can stream all Flash codecs like H.263, H.264, mp3, vp6, speex, nellymoser, etc.

By using FFmpeg it has has container support for most formats: mov, flv, mkv, mp3 and more. The server is still in alpha phase but very promising.

As for Wowza Media Server, it is a high-performance media server that takes H.264 content to any screen – the desktop, mobile and the living room – for unified streaming to all popular media platforms. The single license costs $995.

There still some other choices, like the new Flash media server alternative: Sothink Video Encoder Engine for Adobe Flash.

In fact, Sothink Video Encoder Engine for Adobe Flash is not that new to Flash media server. It is a stable product that has been experienced for years and used by many companies and schools. The Windows version and Linux version both have been upgraded to 3.0, and it even developed visual web management for users that do not like commend-line to build their video streaming sites easier.

Unlike the solutions mentioned above, it cannot find the familiar professional technique words on the official webpage of the Sothink Flash media server. It seems like that this program does not need users to know much about the code, the server, and any other tough details. And it truly does so.

Offering server-side Flash encoder and video sharing scripts, visual web control installation and management, free open source and guide for ASP (.Net), PHP Video Script, this Flash media server alternative is designed as highly effective video sharing server side software for all webmasters and video companies. It can batch upload, edit and convert almost all popular formats of Video to FLV (also support H.264/AVC HD) on Windows servers and Linux servers. It not only shortens installation time, but also simplifies the difficulties and complexities to develop YouTube Clone Websites.

For those people or companies that have video streaming requirements, want to broadcast live streams, need to allow clients to securely view their videos online, want to embed and protect high-quality streaming video, and more. Pricing at only &600, Sothink Video Encoder Engine for Adobe Flash definitely can be a good choice.

Tip: If you only would like to build a video sharing site focusing on iPhone/iPod Touch users and even wish to have a specified client app to invite more iOS traffic into your video content, you may also get to know Sothink Mobile Video Delivery Solution, an efficient and comprehensive solution for you to deliver abundant videos to mobiles and smartphones.

What Do You Need In Building Your Own YouTube Clone Site?

mirrorking — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:56:28 +0000

Nowadays more and more people plan to have a video sharing site like YouTube for personal or business purpose. Well, actually it is not that difficult to build a YouTube Clone site.

Aiming to help video sharing site builders easily and quickly own a site like YouTube, Yahoo Video, MSN Video, etc, recently SourceTec Software have brought a helpful and professional website: Youtube-clone.com, which is specially designed for people willing to start a YouTube clone site.

Youtube-clone.com offers rich resources and information, like YouTube clone console recommended, video sharing script and guides, to be the perfect console of YouTube clone. What do you need in building your own YouTube clone site? The answer and solution are both could be found in Youtube-clone.com.

It Provides a Complete Video Processing & Hosting Solution:

Youtube-clone.com provides a professional video procession and hosting solution both for Windows and Linux systems.

The strongly recommended solution can be called as Video Encoder Engine for Adobe Flash. It is developed with powerful features necessary for an online video community:

Totally be able to help you easily start video sharing site with ASP.net, ASP and PHP script
Create thumbnail image for the converted video
Support adding watermarks, logos and copyright images
Fully customizable

It Provides Live Demo & Full Source Script:

Youtube-clone.com also provides a few live demos to show you what your video sharing site could be like. And the full source code of live demo sites are provided to help you to build your own Flash video hosting site.

Besides the free code of live demo sites, there are still some other script resources, which are also totally free. Together with the Youtube clone program, it provides full video sharing scripts like ASP, ASP.net and PHP and more programming languages, SDK documents and guides.

It Provides Powerful Video to FLV Console:

Once you decided to build a YouTube clone site and attract visitors with plenty of videos and movies, you may just hand the core video sharing task to Video Encoder Engine, which can convert all popular formats of video to FLV for sharing on your Youtube clone site. And besides its amazing ability of encoding video to H.264/AVC encoded FLV and HD video (High Definition) with quality, there are more reasons for it being the best choice of video to FLV console:

Powerful video to FLV solution
Faster conversion speed
Support batch conversion and command line console mode
Full control over the converted Flash Video: video quality, frame rate, size, duration and other parameters
Many other editing functions
Flexible, powerful & reliable

You may also through the live demos in Youtube-clone.com experience the video to FLV conversion with the video Encoder Engine for Adobe Flash. And you will find the progress is definitely easily and quickly.

It Provides Life-time Customer Support:

The full source code of live demo sites in Youtube-clone.com are provided for free. Together with the Youtube clone program, it provides full video sharing scripts like ASP, ASP.net and PHP and more programming languages, SDK documents and guides.

Also, for you to grasp the professional video sharing script, Youtube-clone.com offers various tutorials. For example:

How to use Video Encoder Engine for Adobe Flash (Windows Version)?

How to Set up Video Codecs on Linux Server (PHP)?

What’s more, there is a dedicated support team to help make your site a success.

Overall, Youtube-clone.com is a best guide leading you in the video sharing world. Welcome to Youtube-clone.com and you will find what you exactly need in building your own YouTube Clone site.

Tip: If you would like to build a video sharing site focusing on iPhone/iPod Touch users and even wish to have a specified client app to invite more iOS traffic into your video content, you may get to know Sothink Mobile Video Delivery Solution, an efficient and comprehensive solution for you to deliver abundant videos to mobiles and smartphones.

Comparison of Video Converter, Video Encoder for Adobe Flash and FLV Converter

Brenda — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:35:16 +0000

Recently, Some Flash encoder and video converter users are a bit confused about the functionality of Video Converter, Video Encoder for Adobe Flash and FLV Converter. And now, I will take this chance to make it clear by using the chat below.

Comparison Chart:

Function Comparison	Video Converter	Video Encoder for Adobe Flash	FLV Converter
	$29.00 Order \| Free download	$45.00 Order \| Free download	$19.95 Order \| Free download
Basic function	ConvertÂ between almost all popular video formats	Convert video to Flash (SWF and FLV)	Convert Flash video (FLV) toÂ other video formats
Input formats	AVI, MPEG, WMV, iPod (MP4), PSP (MP4), 3GP (3GPP/3GPP2), DAT, ASF, ASX, MOV, DV, RM, MKV,and RMVB, etc. MoreÂ formats >>	AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MPG, MPE, MP4, ASF, ASX, DAT, RM, RMVB, 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, DV, QT, DAT (VCD), and VOB (DVD), etc.	FLV/F4V/HD FLV
Output formats	AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, iPod/iPhone (MP4), PSP (MP4), Zune, or 3GP (3GPP/3GPP2), etc.	SWF/FLV	AVI, MPEG, iPod/iPhone (MP4), PSP (MP4), 3GP video, etc.
Video to FLV	No	Yes	No
Video to SWF	No	Yes	No
FLV to Video	No	No	Yes
Video to Video	Yes	No	No
Batch conversion	Yes	No	No
Offer free FLV player	No	Yes	Yes
Support preview	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fast Speed, Excellent Picture Quality	Yes	Yes	Yes
Simple, Clear and User-Friendly	Yes	Yes	Yes
video cropping and trimming	Yes	Yes	Yes
Adjust volume	Yes	Yes	Yes

So you can see the above three toolsÂ truly have something in common, that is they are fast in speed, excellent in picture quality and easy to use, but they are totally different tool suiting different user’s requirements.

Video Converter is a video converting application. It can fast convert videosÂ between multiple formats, for example, psp, 3gp, mkv, mp4, etc. It’s for usual users to convert videos among various formats. It can be psp converter, mkv converter, 3gp converter, and so on.

FLV Converter is a professional FLV video converter. It converts FLV/F4V/HD FLV into various other video formats. It’s for regular visitors of some video sites, such as YouTube. They can download videos from these video sites and save to portable devices to enjoy offline.

And Video Encoder for Adobe Flash, also called Video to Flash Converter or Flash Video Converter before, is to convert your video to flash files (SWF and FLV) with excellent performance, and speed up your video hosting and sharing business over the Internet. Commons can use it to convert home videos to flash video files to share with friends and family over the internet. Webmasters can publish video to the web in FLV format, with no pause on different bandwidth network. And Businessmen can convert important video content like conference video into widely-supported Flash video for easy backup and playback, insert it into other files like DOC, HTML etc and play it anytime anywhere.

May this will help you a lot in finding the tool you really need!

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Here comes Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash 2.4

Brenda — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:23:44 +0000

Video to Flash Converter gives you full control over the converting process, free to customize different video, audio settings and output files; provides advanced video editing functions, like video cropping and trimming; generates thumbnail image; offers various playback skins; and automatically creates an adapted Flash Video player (SWF) and HTML page to play the outputting Flash Video files progressively. Just try Video to Flash Converter now!