Introduction

Adobe® Flash® Media Server is a real-time media server that can deliver video on demand, live video, streaming music, video blogging, video messaging, multimedia chat environments, real-time datacasting, and multiuser gaming. Flash Media Server client applications run in Adobe® Flash® Player, Adobe® AIR™, and Adobe® Flash® Lite™ and work consistently across platforms and browsers.

There are three editions of Flash Media Server 3.5: Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server, Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server, and Adobe Flash Media Development Server.