Flash Media Encoder, new software from Adobe on Labs

Well, this is pretty good news I would say. Adobe has finally put out a standalone application that will stream vp6 flash video to Flash Media Server for your viewers. Not only that, you can record the video at the same time you are streaming it, which is always handy.

The application is called Flash Media Encoder, very aptly named I think, and it's free right now and will always be free if you have a valid license installed with your Flash Media Server install.

The bonus of this is that you can finally send video up by VP6 instead of the sorenson codec that the flash player has. We'll probably never see VP6 support for live streams in the flash player so this is going to be very nice to have.

It's in beta but it still works for the purposes. Details are here.

Posted by Graeme at January 20, 2007 03:21 AM