P2P Multicast in new Flash Player 10.1
October 7th, 2009
Tip, READ about details of Multicast in FP 10.1:
Multicast Explained in Flash 10.1 P2P
As all of you probably registered - Adobe has announced new Flash Player 10.1 at Adobe MAX L.A. with tons of new features including new RTMFP possibilities.
Currently in Flash Player 10, we had RTMFP support for end-to-end P2P connections only, which is enough for 2 peer communication, but when you want to establish more complex connections (3 or more peers) - it just gets too complicated.
Flash Player 10.1 announced few important additions to the RTMFP protocol:
Groups and Multicast
Groups rapidly simplify the process of connecting peers together. You just define which group you want to join and don’t have to maintain particular connections between other peers. This is making your code so clean by using classes GroupSpecifier (define group), NetGroup (management and statistics) + new features in NetStream (multicast streaming). With end-to-end connections in FP 10.0 before you had to connect to each peer separately, which was quite difficult mechanism to maintain more than 2 peer communication. Now it’s so easy.
What’s more - security - you can control access to a group, which makes it really powerful - especially with defining your own architecture. Also every client can join few different groups at the same time.
Adobe Stratus - rendezvous service for P2P - is also behaving the same way as peer client, so we can predict that in the future FMS, you will be able to send video streams from non-P2P clients to P2P multicast group and connect two different worlds - clients on unicast (RTMP) and multicast (RTMFP) together. (This still needs clarification - I will post more on this in a future)
I am going to keep you updated - it’s seems like a little a step, but I think - that with Groups and Multicast, we are opening totally new era of realtime Flash apps!
See the Matthew Kaufman’s session (Project Lead of P2P in Flash Platform)
Facebook comments:
15 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. / TrackBack URL
great news for RTC apps - go Adobe!
Comment by Stefan Richter — October 7, 2009 @ 9:57 pm
P2P Multicast in current Flash Player 10!
http://blog.yoz.sk/2009/10/p2pmulticast/
Comment by Yoz — October 23, 2009 @ 2:09 pm
other features of flash player 10.1 a simplified list
Comment by Mark — November 19, 2009 @ 7:36 pm
other features of flash player 10.1 a simplified list
http://askmeflash.com/article/13/flash-player-10-1-released-what-s-new
Comment by Mark — November 19, 2009 @ 7:38 pm
Now, Flash Player 10.1 released. Now, Flash Player 10.1 released. Can you make a multi-user course? Thanks in advance :))
Good work..
Comment by Mark Black — November 24, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
[...] more about new Stratus here at Kevin’s blog. - Also check new Labs page about RTMFP Groups. - My article about Multicast in Flash Player 10.1 - Read about differences between Stratus and [...]
Pingback by Stratus 服务升级，完全支持RTFMP Groups以及P2P多播 — Flex the world — January 23, 2010 @ 3:25 pm
Hello!
xanax ,
Comment by xanax — January 27, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
Hello!
jeep accessories ,
Comment by jeep_accessories — February 3, 2010 @ 8:48 pm
Hello Tom, sorry my english is fail.I’m trying to send my streaming using multicast protocol with address 224.0.0.10, using p2p it works, but when set peerToPeerDisabled = true, it does not work. You can help me or send an example.
Thank you very much.
Comment by Ricardo Silva — March 23, 2010 @ 10:15 pm
peerToPeerDisabled is for IP Multicast - see http://www.flashrealtime.com/p2p-groupspecifier-explained-1/
Comment by tom — March 26, 2010 @ 12:06 pm
[...] Flash Player 10.1 libraries, for unlocking the crazy new P2P APIs in the next player : :: P2P group data messaging – take any node and configure it to be P2P, [...]
Pingback by The Trending Monster Word » Articles Entries Headlines News Posts » LCCS April Release : Feature Explosion! — April 20, 2010 @ 11:02 pm
Hi Tom,
Please can you please show how to use LAN Discovery offline with Stratus and how and how the create simple p2p offline without Stratus.
Comment by Olayode Ezekiel — April 26, 2010 @ 6:32 pm
In addition, in at least {29} 2 punches there were x-ray rebates glycosidic of next epiphyseal [i]drug hours positive testing tramadol ultram[/i] during librium with etretinate.
Comment by buy meridia — May 16, 2010 @ 4:18 pm
can we receive multiple videos and show all on stage at same time?
Comment by Rahul — August 17, 2010 @ 10:53 am
@Rahul - yes you can do that.
@Olayode - in the next article. stay tuned. You need to use: “rtmpf:” as a connection string.
Comment by tom — August 18, 2010 @ 2:25 am