Requirements to use HDFVR on your website

1. A website (obviously!)

Any shared hosting account or vps/dedicated server will do as long as it supports asp or php.

2. A media server, you have 2 options:

• OPTION1: Your Own Media Server: a dedicated or VPS server with one of these media servers installed:
  • Red5 0.8 or 1.0 RC1 (free, 0.9.x is not supported as it's got recording broken)
  • FMS 2 or later (commercial, free Developer edition available)
  • Wowza 1.7 or later (commercial, free Developer edition available)

  We can install Red5/FMIS/Wowza for you, just purchase the Pro Media Server Installation Service from the BUY PAGE.
  
  hostv.com provides VPS and dedicated servers with Red5 pre-installed!
  

• OPTION2: Media Server Hosting. Influxis.com and uvault.com both offer FMS hosting for as low as $10/month (and you don't even have to move your website! cool huh?).

3. Your website users will need Flash Player 11.1 or later.

Build 496 of HDFVR introduced h.264 video recording, which meant that users will need Flash Player 11.1 or above to run HDFVR.

According to statistics released by Adobe Flash Player is already installed on 97-99% of the computers connected to the Internet.

 

 

What is a media server?

Just as web servers (Apache is a web server) serve static HTML pages and images, media servers (like FMS, Red5 and Wowza) can record and deliver video/audio content to Flash Player applications (like HDFVR).

About FMIS

The first media server was done by Adobe and it was called Flash Communication Server. It is now called Flash Media Interactive Server and it costs around $4500 to buy in the US (we know! It's a lot!). It has good documentation and there are a lot of articles and books explaining all things FMIS.

About Red5

Red5 is an open source and free alternative to FMIS developed in Java.

About Wowza

Wowza is a commercial alternative (also developed in Java) to FMIS that costs about $995, comes with great documentation, a forum and good support.