Only one word: dynamic streaming. Now it's a reality with Flash Media Server 3.5 announced today at MAX by Adobe.
From the Adobe web site: Dynamic streaming will help solve this problem as bandwidth
becomes restricted or is made available. The technology does this because of
the new APIs available with Adobe Flash Player 10 and Flash Media Server 3.5. ActionScript
written for Flash Player or Adobe AIR 1.5 can instruct Flash Media Server 3.5
to send a lower quality stream and switch the streams without interrupting the
audio or video flow. The user is never the wiser. When bandwidth increases,
Flash Player can request for a higher quality stream and once again deliver without
disruption.
Other great new features are:
Digital video recording (DVR) feature that allows you to record your favorite shows when they air, or pause a live stream while you tend to something else. In either case, you can watch your program in its entirety or even go backwards to catch something you missed the first time through. The trend here is that video consumers are watching live media on their own time—and on their own terms.
And last but not least:
- A new Flash Video Player and ActionScript 3 classes
- Interactive full screen
- Stream-encrypted F4V files
- More ways to monitor and manage your deployment
- H.264 server-side archiving
- XMP metadata support
- Higher quality audio conferencing with new Speex codec support
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