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Adobe To Open Real-Time Messaging Protocol
synodinos writes "Adobe has
announced plans
to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol specification, which is
designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video, and data between
Adobe Flash Platform technologies. This move that has followed the opening of
the AMF spec has been
received with varying degrees of enthusiasm from the RIA community."
..."Abobe"?!
I wonder if the RIAA will be as enthusiastic too..
Please? Can someone fix the topic?
Bad Timothy!
As I walk through the valley of death I fear no one, for I am the meanest sonova bitch in the valley!
This is good news for the haXe community.
Nice try Adobe, but it didn't work. You know we're really waiting for you to open up Flash itself. Stop beating around the bush with these lesser technologies.
when have they developed anything with peformance in mind ??? I wish I could stab PDFs in thier proprietry format face!
Whew... By reading the topic alone, I thought someone "great! someone just reinvented IRC..."
I am convinced that I can always be convinced otherwise.
Do we really need another piece of Adobe-sponsored bloatware that's just an excuse to load down PCs with plugins that want to update every 30 goddamn seconds? Do we really need more hype about "OMG the A/V revolution!", with a piece of $700 SW to boot?
Posting AC because I'm @ work.
Abobe To Open Real-Time Massaging Protocol
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I'm not sure there's any point to this, since the Red5 guys have already documented and implemented the protocol. And Wowza has a fantastic implementation, even though it's not open source. If nothing else, I'd like to see "Abobe" explains the fucked-up connection handshaking. "Send me any ol' 1500 bytes! Ok great, you're connected!"
I think it's good that some companies, like Adobe, are realizing it makes good business sense to open up these protocols. However let's also be aware that Adobe is perfectly willing to tighten the screws further in other areas when they feel like THAT makes business sense. Anyone who (like me) uses any of their CS3 or CS4 products has dealt with this.
Actually, I should say the first install of CS3 or CS4 goes pretty well, and activation is painless. But if you've got it at home and at work - which is perfectly acceptable according to their EULA - then have a computer suddenly die, prepare to invest a lot of time in trying to get the licensing sorted out just so you can do your work.
So my (long-winded) point is: Good for Adobe, but let's not give them too much credit for this.
#DeleteChrome
I, for one, welcome many more opportunities to have Adobe products hang my system.
And I can't get updates fast enough. Once a day is not enough for me.
Sounds like the Flash spec is being pulled a bunch of directions. As long as the proper security measures in place, these new features should be okay. It seems Adobe is throwing a bunch of new ideas at Flash, hoping something will stick.
Which is kinda cool, because it could lead to new technologies. On the other hand, I'm not sure I want a "new experience" abruptly interfering with my web browsing sessions.
I just hope it's not completely random and there is some supreme oversight to these new directions. Queue pictures of masonic images like the Eye of Providence, etc.
Flash is good for videos. It is used for advertisements. Not sure I want to open up a dialog channel between me and marketdroids.
...embed a chat room in a PDF and talk to anyone who has a copy of the same PDF open.
Technoli
The bloat goes in before the name goes on.
"The ferrets, they're every where I tell you!"
How about "when have they developed something with security in mind"? Maybe I'm just bitter, but it seems like every week there's another handful of flash and acrobat exploits.
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Um, RTMP is not a chat protocol. It is a protocol for stateful connections with multiplexed streams for downloading large amounts of media with real-time responses and quality of service requirements. It is what the Flash Player uses to download audio and video from servers. See Wikipedia. Next time, look up the topic before spouting off.
Don't forget that 18 months ago Adobe purchase Antepo, which is (was) a Java based XMPP solutions for large scale enterprises.
Aspects of Anetpo's technology have been finding their way into various Adobe products, and facilitating collaboration.
Hopefully Adobe will add command-and-control to XMPP for audio and video streaming.
Note that Google Talk (which is also XMPP based) has alread added (and standardized some of) their related XMPP extensions.
And didn't they just steal and seal from RTSP?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rtsp
If "Abobe" wants to do something good, they should allow their terrible payware FMS to serve up RTSP.
quis custodiet ipsos custodes
still, RTP+SIP or H.323 should do everything this does, unless it's got some uber-feature that at least one of those two doesn't have. which i doubt.
I hate megavideo with their IP recording. I hate the ones that use RTMP and don't let me download the flv file. So now I need the freeware developers to update their firefox addons and freeware apps Greasemonkey scripts to support Adobe's or Abobe's (hahah) open specs on the RTMP. I know orbit says it supports RTMP, but megavideo is impossible without getting your IP add changed.
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Second cousin do President Odama.
Odama must have a lot of balls.
Spark is just another name for H.263; you can get the spec from ITU.
And the patent license from whom? It has to be royalty-free in order to be compatible with free software.
That's why "open Flash" is a scam. Adobe gives you the specs but not the patent licenses (since they don't own many of the patents anyway) and tells you that you're all set to write your own open source Flash player.