Video is huge! We have fallen in love with Youtube and countless other websites that offer us, a seemly endless amount of video for us to enjoy. For businesses and webmasters, video equates to cheap advertising, increases amount of traffic and the amount of time visitors spend on their websites. Video is one of the top content types and it transcends all devices.
If video is a big part of your website, mobile platform or you need the ability to seamlessly stream video to multiple devices, on demand.... you need a media server. A media server is a dedicated computer or a specialized software, to provide video on demand, various other digital media (meaning digital videos /movies, audio/music, and picture files). Software media servers are more practical than dedicated hardware servers (that still require some type of software). They require less maintenance and are cheaper to set up.
Here are a few things to consider when deciding on a software-based media server:
If video is a big part of your website, mobile platform or you need the ability to seamlessly stream video to multiple devices, on demand.... you need a media server. A media server is a dedicated computer or a specialized software, to provide video on demand, various other digital media (meaning digital videos /movies, audio/music, and picture files). Software media servers are more practical than dedicated hardware servers (that still require some type of software). They require less maintenance and are cheaper to set up.
Here are a few things to consider when deciding on a software-based media server:
- You want a reliable media server that can serve your video fast. People have little patience for a video that either takes too long to load or repeatedly pauses to buffer.
- You want a media server covers the broadest range of player technologies and screens, including Adobe Flash player, Microsoft Silverlight player, Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and QuickTime player,Android smartphones and tablets, a variety of Internet connected TVs, and IPTV/OTT set-top boxes.
- You want a media server that can handle many streaming protocols, including the Real-Time Messaging Protocol(RTMP), Flash HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS), Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), and MPEG2 Transport Streams (MPEG-TS).
- Your media server software should be able to do digital rights management and protect your streams.
- Your media server should also be flexible enough for you to be able to integrate it into your specific application
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