Flash Media Interactive Server

The Flash Media Interactive Server (FMIS) connects high-quality video streaming with a high level of user-interaction. The environment is very flexible and enables the use of rich media communication features such as video blogging and messaging, as well as real-time audio/visual communication. Multi-user flash applications including virtual classrooms, chatrooms and conferences, video email and guestbooks can also be used.

The Flash Media Interactive Server utilizes a propietary protocol (RTMP) and specific ports. Our Porttester can be used to check, if the necessary ports are open.

Our FMIS offers the following features:

Access control: The FMIS has a plug-in which automatically verifies and authenticates the user before delivering the stream. This prevents unauthorized access and also allows paying-tools to be installed.

Dynamic buffering: Buffering ensures the fastest possible start of the video which actually depends on the duration, bitrate and connection speed of the user. The dynamic buffer provides the fastest and best start of the video regardless of the individual user connection.

No user-cache: Audio/visual content streamed by FMIS is not available in the cache afterward.  

Firewall and proxy traversal: Various port and protocol combinations are tested to bypass firewalls and use ports not specifically made for video-streams but for websites.

Live-streaming and recording: Capture and live-streaming from all sources are automatically detected through USB. Each video can be streamed in real-time and recorded on the server.

Multi-user communication: This is the implementation of innovative video communication applications such as rich media chat rooms, video blogging and messaging, and multi-player games. For the data synchronization of multiple users, multi-user streaming and remote technology is utilized.

Unrevealed URLs and media file locations: The location of data can often be revealed by URLs referring to the source. In this way, many media players allow the user to locate the streamed clip. Flash keeps external media data locations in binary coded format in SWF, excluding the possibility that the user gets the data and server location of the delivered video.

XML object: XML is a server-related gateway which enables software engineers to read and write XML data and streams. This is especially important with on-demand-projects so that meta-data of the files can be read.