About Flash Media Streaming
OnyxServers flash streaming web hosting plans allow you to:
- Incorporate video on demand technology.
- Broadcast a live feed.
- Stream MP3 audio on your web site.
- Offer rich media communication applications like video blogging, video messaging and multimedia chat environments.
Flash is quickly becoming the video format of choice with a 95% increase in streamed video market share in 2006. Flash is the world.s most pervasive software platform, reaching over 98% of all connected desktops on the web and distributed with all major browsers. 
Flash player is the most common media player installed on PC computers
Advantages - Video playback starts sooner than it does using other methods of incorporating video.
- Bandwidth detection to deliver video or audio content based on the user's available bandwidth.
- Streaming uses less of the client's memory and disk space, because the clients don't need to download the entire file.
- Network resources are used more efficiently, because only the parts of the video that are viewed are sent to the client.
- Delivery of media is more secure, because media does not get saved to the client's cache when streamed.
- Streaming lets you deliver live video and audio presentations, or capture video from a web cam or digital video camera.
- Flash Communication Server enables multiway and multiuser streaming for video chat, video messaging, and video conferencing applications.
- By programmatically controlling video and audio streams (using server-side scripting), you can create server-side play lists, synchronized streams, and more intelligent delivery options based on the client's connection speed.
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