Introducing Flash Media Server; Overview Of Flash Media Server; About The Flash Media Server Documentation - MACROMEDIA FLASH MEDIA SERVER 2-INSTALLING FLASH MEDIA SERVER 2 Manual

Introducing Flash Media
Server
Macromedia Flash Media Server 2 is a development framework and a deployment
environment for rich media applications. Developers can use Macromedia Flash and Flash
Media Server to write media applications, and then use Flash Media Server to deploy the
applications. Macromedia Flash Player is the end user's interface.

Overview of Flash Media Server

Flash Media Server provides you with streaming media capabilities and a powerful, flexible
development environment. This enables you to create and deliver a wide range of interactive
media applications. Use Flash Media Server to create traditional media delivery applications
such as video-on-demand, live web event broadcasts, or MP3 streaming. You can also design
communication applications like video blogging, video messaging, and multimedia chat
environments. Flash Media Server is part of Macromedia's complete solution for database
connectivity, directory systems, and presence services, and is the only server that can deliver
audio and video to the popular Flash Player.
About the Flash Media Server
documentation
The Flash Media Server documentation is designed to be used with the documentation for
Macromedia Flash, namely Using Flash and ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference Guide.
All Flash Media Server documents are available in PDF (viewable and printable with Adobe
Acrobat Reader) and as online help in the Flash Help panel.
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