Unreal Media Server

What is Unreal Media Server?

Unreal Media Server is a robust software streaming server that offers a rich selection of live and on-demand streaming capabilities. It supports a variety of streaming protocols to deliver content to a wide range of devices, including Flash Player, Silverlight, Windows Media Player, Unreal Media Player, mobile devices, and Set-Top boxes

Highlights

• Supports multiple streaming protocols: UMS (proprietary, DirectShow-based, codec-independent), RTMP, RTMPT, MS-WMSP, MS Smooth, Apple HTTP Live Streaming, and MPEG2-TS
• Enables adaptive bitrate streaming through RTMP and HLS protocols
• Provides time-shifted playback functionality for Flash Player and Unreal Media Player
• Streams any multimedia file format encoded with any codec, including but not limited to MP4, ASF, AVI, MKV, MPEG, WMV, FLV, OGG, MP3, 3GP, and MOV
• Offers unicast "on-demand" and multicast "live" streaming modes, as well as playlist functionality
• Designed for high performance, utilizing efficient mechanisms in Windows OS such as multithreading and asynchronous socket I/O, to deliver streams to thousands of concurrent viewers with minimal impact on system resources