Flashforward 2007: Fun with Flash Media Server - Part 1

In this talk Lisa Larson-Kelly talks about Flash Media Server.

It communicates using RTMP which opens a two-way socket, which you can use to send video, audio [streams] and data [remote shared objects].

There are client side media classes (e.g. Camera, microphone, SharedObject, ect) and we can use ActionScript 1, 2 or 3. There are more on the server side (in ActionScript 1) including the ability to write to files on the server, the ability to deal with data.


It looks interesting for more complex applications. I suppose we'd need to ask whether it is worth learning to use Flash in this sort of detail for the amount of work we would do in it.