Flash player 10 released

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

From Adobe’s site

“News
Download Adobe Flash Player 10 today for a fresh look at the web”

Yes, finally flash player 10 was released. Now it’s just a question of time to add new features of flash player 10 (UDP, speex, p2p) to our technology and service. God job Adobe!

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Flashphone AIR version released. The World’s first SIP softphone based on Adobe AIR technology.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Many Flashphone users (about 75000 now) like our browser-based SIP softphone as zero downloads and installations are required. But if you are using flashphone to receive incoming calls it’s not always convenient, that it’s browser-based and for the people, who likes our service, we created AIR version of Flashphone. Now you can install it in few click with Adobe AIR runtime (if it’s not installed yet) and get real SIP softphone which works in the same way like browser-based one, but you can minimize it to system tray and be sure that you are online and ready to receive calls. Sure there are lot of things to improve in this version, so we are expecting feedback from our users. Here is Install badge: 

P.S. Forgot to mention - SIP providers accounts are to be added via web interface yet  

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FMS trial download is unavailable on Adobe’s site till 1 of July. Waiting for the new version?

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

We know that flash player 10 is on it’s way to release with it’s fantastic features, but some of them can be tested only with new FMS, which will support cool things like new UDP-based RTMFP protocol and provide support for p2p  connections between flash players. Now trial downloads section of Adobe’s site is unavailable and it will be available only at 1st of July… Let’s hope it will be new version of FMS ;)

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Vote for Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) support for Flash player 10 on Adobe jira site

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

As we’ve already written flash player doesn’t support AEC now and even in flash player 10 beta we couldn’t find AEC support. That means that we have to use headset to remove echo problem, but if Adobe implements AEC for flash player we’ll be able to use flash real-time audio communications with loudspeakers. AEC is a very big advantage for VoIP services based on flash technology. Let’s vote for AEC support in Flash Player 10 release version! To vote use the next link: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-273 , but first you have to register on Adobe’s jira website, using the following link: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/Signup!default.jspa

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Flash player 10 beta is available for downloading. What Adobe offers to us.

Friday, May 16th, 2008

You can download flash player 10 beta using this link. We will have a lof of new features, but let’s check features related to realtime communications support:
Dynamic Streaming — Always show the best video possible with streams that can automatically adjust to changing network conditions. By changing bitrates, you can keep your user engaged and avoid start-and-stop video. Dynamic streaming provides the best possible experience to the video consumer based on their bandwidth environment. Video streams over RTMP from intended future releases of Flash Media Server can dynamically change bitrate as network conditions change. Quality of Service metrics, exposed via ActionScript and providing real-time network or CPU information, allow developers to take control of the video playback and adjust the streaming experience accordingly. This feature is part of Flash Player 10 but will only be available with intended future releases of Flash Media Server.

RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol) — RTMFP provides a UDP-based secure network transport alternative to RTMP-over-TCP. To take advantage of the feature you will need to establish a net connection via future releases of Flash Media Server or other Adobe server products. UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is an efficient and standardized Internet protocol for delivering media assets because of its support for lossy delivery, improving performance of real time communication. RTMFP is always encrypted which helps protect media delivery. This technology is a result of Adobe’s acquisition of Amicima, Inc. in 2006. If you are interested in being part of the private prerelease for RTMFP, please send an email to fmsprerelease@adobe.com with your contact details.

Speex Audio Codec — The new, higher fidelity Speex voice codec offers an alternative to Nellymoser for audio that delivers the lowest-latency audio experience possible. When RTMP or RTMFP is used with future releases of Flash Media Server, live and unbuffered Speex transmissions will take advantage of RTMFP’s partial-reliability feature to reduce network latency.

Flash player 10 will help us to provide better user experience for VoIP services. We will upgrade Flashphone as soon as it will be possible.

P.S. Forgot to mention that flash player 10 would support  P2P connections between players. Nice!

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