Comparison of streaming media systems

This is a comparison of streaming media

Streaming media

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...

systems. A more complete list of streaming media systems is also available.

General

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of streaming media systems both audio and video. Please see the individual systems' linked articles for further information.

Name	Creator	First Public Release (yyyy-MM-dd)	Latest Stable Version (Release Date)	Cost (USD United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies.... )	license	Media	Media Player
VLC media player VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to...	VideoLAN VideoLAN VideoLAN is a project that develops software for playing video and other media formats across a local area network . It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client and VideoLAN Server , but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated into VLC, with the result...		1.1.10 (2011-06-16)	Free	GPL v2	Audio/Video	Any with appropriate protocol support.
PeerCast PeerCast PeerCast is an open source streaming media multicast tool. PeerCast uses peer-to-peer technology to minimize the necessary upload bandwidth for the original multicaster.The website of PeerCast appears to be abandoned since December 2007...	Giles		0.1217	Free	GPL	Audio/Video	{?}
Flash Media Server	Macromedia Macromedia Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that produced such products as Flash and Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia... /Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...	2002-07-9	4.0 (2010-09-13)	$4,500	proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Video	Flash Player
Wowza Media Server Wowza Media Server Wowza Media Server is unified server software developed by Wowza Media Systems. The server is used for streaming of live and on-demand video, audio, and RIAs over public and private IP networks to desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, mobile devices, IPTV set-top boxes, internet-connected TV...	Wowza Media Systems Wowza Media Systems Wowza Media Systems, Inc. is a media server software company headquartered in Evergreen, Colorado, USA. The company was founded in 2005 by two former Adobe Systems employees, David Stubenvoll and Charlie Good, to focus on creating media server software optimized for streaming of live and on-demand...	2007-02-17	3.0.3 (2011-10-25)	Free Developer license, $995 Perpetual, $55/mo Subscription, $5/day Subscription	proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Audio/Video/Data	Any with appropriate protocol support, including Flash players, Silverlight players, QuickTime players, VLC players, Safari (HTML5), iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, 3GPP (Android, Blackberry, Symbian, etc.), IPTV set-top boxes, game consoles (Wii, PS3 and other).
Evostream Media Server	Evostream	Pre-release	N/A	$500 - $2500	proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Audio/Video/Data	Any with appropriate protocol support, Flash, QuickTime, Silverlight, VLC, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, IPTV, game consoles, etc.
Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server , is the first open sourced RTP/RTSP streaming server. It was released March 16, 1999 and is a fully featured RTSP/RTP media streaming server capable of streaming a variety of media types including H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2 and 3GP.Developed by Apple, it is the open...	Apple Inc.	1999-03-16	6.0.3 (2007-05-10)	Free	APSL Apple Public Source License The Apple Public Source License is the open source and free software license under which Apple's Darwin operating system was released. A free software and open source license was voluntarily adopted to further involve the community from which much of Darwin originated.The first version of the Apple...	Audio/Video	Any with appropriate protocol support.
Flumotion Streaming Server Flumotion Flumotion Services, S.A. is a Spanish company based in Barcelona, which has developed a multiformat streaming media platform to publish audio and video content via the internet...	Flumotion Flumotion Flumotion Services, S.A. is a Spanish company based in Barcelona, which has developed a multiformat streaming media platform to publish audio and video content via the internet...	2004-11-30	0.9.1 (2011-09-08)	Free	GPL	Audio/Video	Any with appropriate protocol support.
Firefly Firefly Media Server Firefly Media Server is an open-source media server for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol and Digital Audio Access Protocol .-Features:Its features include:...	Ron Pedde		0.2.4.1 (2007-10-21)	Free	GPL	Audio	Any with appropriate protocol support.
FreeCast FreeCast FreeCast is a free software application which allows peer-to-peer streaming, sometimes called peercasting. It makes possible an audio or video stream broadcast to a large number of listeners from a simple DSL connection....	Alban Peignier	2004-09-14	2006-06-29	Free	GPL	Audio/Video	FreeCast client
Helix DNA Server	RealNetworks RealNetworks RealNetworks, Inc. is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The company is the creator of RealAudio, a compressed audio format; RealVideo, a compressed video format; RealPlayer, a media player; RealDownloader, a download...	2003-01-22	11.1 (2006-06-10)	Free	RCSL RealNetworks Community Source License The RealNetworks Community Source License is a software license. Developers pick this license when they do not want to open source their resultant Helix DNA-based application. RCSL has a free R&D license and commercial terms for distribution.... /RPSL RealNetworks Public Source License The RealNetworks Public Source License is a software licence. It has been approved as a free software licence by both Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative , but it is incompatible with the GPL and the Debian Free Software Guidelines.The RPSL is used by the Helix project.-External...	Audio/Video	Any with appropriate protocol support.
Helix Universal Server Helix Universal Server The Helix Universal Streaming Server is developed by RealNetworks and originates from the very first streaming media server originally developed by Progressive Networks in 1994...	RealNetworks RealNetworks RealNetworks, Inc. is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The company is the creator of RealAudio, a compressed audio format; RealVideo, a compressed video format; RealPlayer, a media player; RealDownloader, a download...	1994-01-01	14.0 (2010-04-14)	Free for 12 months (Basic) and $1,000-$10,000	proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Audio/Video	Any with appropriate protocol support (PC & Mobile devices).
Windows Media Services Windows Media Services Windows Media Services is a streaming media server from Microsoft that allows an administrator to generate streaming media . Only Windows Media, JPEG, and MP3 formats are supported...	Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...			Free	proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Video	Windows Media Player
Broadwave	NCH Software NCH Software NCH Software is a software development company founded in 1993 in Canberra, Australia. The Denver office was started in April 2008 due to the large U.S. customer base...	2006-07-21	1.01	Free (Personal), $136 (Commercial)	proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Audio	Any with appropriate protocol support.
Icecast Icecast Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source...	Xiph.Org Foundation Xiph.Org Foundation Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit organizationthat produces free multimedia formats and software tools. It focuses on the Ogg family of formats, the most successful of which has been Vorbis, an open and freely licensed audio format and codec designed to compete with the patented MP3 and AAC...	1998-12	2.3.2 (2008-06-02)	Free	GPL	Audio/Video	Any with appropriate protocol support.
Red5	http://www.red5.org/	2005-10	0.9.1 (2010-02-21)	Free	LGPL	Audio/Video	Flash
SHOUTcast SHOUTcast SHOUTcast is cross-platform proprietary software for streaming media over the Internet. The software, developed by Nullsoft , allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling the creation of Internet radio "stations"...	Nullsoft Nullsoft Nullsoft, Inc. is a software house founded in Sedona, Arizona in 1997 by Justin Frankel. Its most known products include the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media server. In recent years, their open source installer system, NSIS, has also risen in popularity as a widely used...	1998-12	1.9.8 (2007-02-28)	Free	proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Audio	Any with appropriate protocol support.
Unreal Media Server	Unreal Streaming Technologies	2003-11	8.0 (2011-04-25)	Free, Commercial	proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Audio/Video	Flash, Windows Media, UMedia players
CasparCG	SVT http://www.casparcg.com/	2008-04-10	2.0 (2011-06-23)	Free	GPL v3	Audio/Video/Images	FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... , Flash Player, Windows Media, QuickTime, MPEG, FreeImage
Feng Feng Feng is a Chinese surname. It is reported as the 31st most common Chinese last name in 2006. The character itself, is made up of the character for "Horse" with an ice radical consisting of two strokes to the left that is meant to suggest speed or galloping.- Historical roots :The surname descended...	http://lscube.org/feng/	2007-05-31	2009-10-14	Free	GPL	Audio/Video	Any with appropriate protocol support.
Mammoth Server	http://mammothserver.org/	?	? (development seems stalled before beta release)	Free	LGPL	Audio/Video	Flash
EZserver	EZhometech Inc.	2004-01-07	6.0.2.25 (2011-11-28)	Free Edition	proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Audio/Video/Data	Any with appropriate protocol support, including VLC players, iPhone/iPad, etc, IPTV set-top boxes.

Operating system support

Name	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...	Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...	BSD Unix	Solaris	Other Unix Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
PeerCast PeerCast PeerCast is an open source streaming media multicast tool. PeerCast uses peer-to-peer technology to minimize the necessary upload bandwidth for the original multicaster.The website of PeerCast appears to be abandoned since December 2007...
Firefly Firefly Media Server Firefly Media Server is an open-source media server for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol and Digital Audio Access Protocol .-Features:Its features include:...
Flash Media Server
Wowza Media Server Wowza Media Server Wowza Media Server is unified server software developed by Wowza Media Systems. The server is used for streaming of live and on-demand video, audio, and RIAs over public and private IP networks to desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, mobile devices, IPTV set-top boxes, internet-connected TV...
Evostream Media Server
Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server , is the first open sourced RTP/RTSP streaming server. It was released March 16, 1999 and is a fully featured RTSP/RTP media streaming server capable of streaming a variety of media types including H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2 and 3GP.Developed by Apple, it is the open...
Flumotion Streaming Server Flumotion Flumotion Services, S.A. is a Spanish company based in Barcelona, which has developed a multiformat streaming media platform to publish audio and video content via the internet...
FreeCast FreeCast FreeCast is a free software application which allows peer-to-peer streaming, sometimes called peercasting. It makes possible an audio or video stream broadcast to a large number of listeners from a simple DSL connection....
Helix DNA Server
Helix Universal Server Helix Universal Server The Helix Universal Streaming Server is developed by RealNetworks and originates from the very first streaming media server originally developed by Progressive Networks in 1994...
Windows Media Services
Broadwave
Icecast Icecast Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source...
Red5
SHOUTcast SHOUTcast SHOUTcast is cross-platform proprietary software for streaming media over the Internet. The software, developed by Nullsoft , allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling the creation of Internet radio "stations"...
Unreal Media Server
CasparCG
EZserver
Name	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...	Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...	BSD Unix	Solaris	Other Unix Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....

Container format support

Information about what container format

Container format

A container or wrapper format is a meta-file format whose specification describes how different data elements and metadata coexist in a computer file....

s are supported.

Name Name A name is a word or term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. A personal name identifies a specific unique and identifiable individual person, and may or may not include a middle name...	AVI Audio Video Interleave Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback...	ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media...	QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...	Ogg Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex...	OGM	Matroska Matroska The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows...	MP4 MPEG-4 Part 14 MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most commonly used to store digital video and digital audio streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images...	MPEG transport stream	FLV FLV Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player versions 6–11. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are two different video file formats known as Flash Video: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files...
PeerCast PeerCast PeerCast is an open source streaming media multicast tool. PeerCast uses peer-to-peer technology to minimize the necessary upload bandwidth for the original multicaster.The website of PeerCast appears to be abandoned since December 2007...
Firefly Firefly Media Server Firefly Media Server is an open-source media server for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol and Digital Audio Access Protocol .-Features:Its features include:...
Flash Media Server
Wowza Media Server Wowza Media Server Wowza Media Server is unified server software developed by Wowza Media Systems. The server is used for streaming of live and on-demand video, audio, and RIAs over public and private IP networks to desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, mobile devices, IPTV set-top boxes, internet-connected TV...
Evostream Media Server
Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server , is the first open sourced RTP/RTSP streaming server. It was released March 16, 1999 and is a fully featured RTSP/RTP media streaming server capable of streaming a variety of media types including H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2 and 3GP.Developed by Apple, it is the open...
Flumotion Streaming Server Flumotion Flumotion Services, S.A. is a Spanish company based in Barcelona, which has developed a multiformat streaming media platform to publish audio and video content via the internet...
FreeCast FreeCast FreeCast is a free software application which allows peer-to-peer streaming, sometimes called peercasting. It makes possible an audio or video stream broadcast to a large number of listeners from a simple DSL connection....
Helix DNA Server
Helix Universal Server Helix Universal Server The Helix Universal Streaming Server is developed by RealNetworks and originates from the very first streaming media server originally developed by Progressive Networks in 1994...
Windows Media Services
Broadwave
Icecast Icecast Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source...
Red5
SHOUTcast SHOUTcast SHOUTcast is cross-platform proprietary software for streaming media over the Internet. The software, developed by Nullsoft , allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling the creation of Internet radio "stations"...
Unreal Media Server
CasparCG
EZserver

Protocol support

Information about which internet protocol

Internet Protocol

The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...

s are supported for broadcasting streaming media

Streaming media

content.

Name Name A name is a word or term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. A personal name identifies a specific unique and identifiable individual person, and may or may not include a middle name...	HTTP	RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol The Real Time Streaming Protocol is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points...	MMS Microsoft Media Services Microsoft Media Server is the name of Microsoft's proprietary network streaming protocol used to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services . MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP...	RTP Real-time Transport Protocol The Real-time Transport Protocol defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over IP networks. RTP is used extensively in communication and entertainment systems that involve streaming media, such as telephony, video teleconference applications, television services and...	RTCP	UDP User Datagram Protocol The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, in this case referred to as datagrams, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring...	TCP Transmission Control Protocol The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP...	RTMP Real Time Messaging Protocol Real Time Messaging Protocol was initially a proprietary protocol developed by Macromedia for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a Flash player and a server...	MPEG-TS	Real Data Transport
PeerCast PeerCast PeerCast is an open source streaming media multicast tool. PeerCast uses peer-to-peer technology to minimize the necessary upload bandwidth for the original multicaster.The website of PeerCast appears to be abandoned since December 2007...
Firefly Firefly Media Server Firefly Media Server is an open-source media server for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol and Digital Audio Access Protocol .-Features:Its features include:...
Flash Media Server
Wowza Media Server Wowza Media Server Wowza Media Server is unified server software developed by Wowza Media Systems. The server is used for streaming of live and on-demand video, audio, and RIAs over public and private IP networks to desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, mobile devices, IPTV set-top boxes, internet-connected TV...	(Apple HLS, Silverlight Smooth Streaming, Adobe Dynamic Streaming)							(RTMP, RTMPE, RTMPTE, RTMPT, RTMPS)
Evostream Media Server
Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server , is the first open sourced RTP/RTSP streaming server. It was released March 16, 1999 and is a fully featured RTSP/RTP media streaming server capable of streaming a variety of media types including H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2 and 3GP.Developed by Apple, it is the open...
Flumotion Streaming Server Flumotion Flumotion Services, S.A. is a Spanish company based in Barcelona, which has developed a multiformat streaming media platform to publish audio and video content via the internet...
FreeCast FreeCast FreeCast is a free software application which allows peer-to-peer streaming, sometimes called peercasting. It makes possible an audio or video stream broadcast to a large number of listeners from a simple DSL connection....
Helix DNA Server
Helix Universal Server Helix Universal Server The Helix Universal Streaming Server is developed by RealNetworks and originates from the very first streaming media server originally developed by Progressive Networks in 1994...
Windows Media Services Windows Media Services Windows Media Services is a streaming media server from Microsoft that allows an administrator to generate streaming media . Only Windows Media, JPEG, and MP3 formats are supported...	(WM-HTTP, plain download&play HTTP via IIS)	(WM-RTSP)		(WM-RTSP)		(MMSU, MMS-MCAST, MSBD and WM-RTSP)	(MMST, WM-HTTP and HTTP)
Broadwave
Icecast Icecast Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source...
Red5
SHOUTcast SHOUTcast SHOUTcast is cross-platform proprietary software for streaming media over the Internet. The software, developed by Nullsoft , allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling the creation of Internet radio "stations"...
Unreal Media Server
EZserver
Name Name A name is a word or term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. A personal name identifies a specific unique and identifiable individual person, and may or may not include a middle name...	HTTP	RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol The Real Time Streaming Protocol is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points...	MMS Microsoft Media Services Microsoft Media Server is the name of Microsoft's proprietary network streaming protocol used to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services . MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP...	RTP Real-time Transport Protocol The Real-time Transport Protocol defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over IP networks. RTP is used extensively in communication and entertainment systems that involve streaming media, such as telephony, video teleconference applications, television services and...	RTCP	UDP User Datagram Protocol The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, in this case referred to as datagrams, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring...	TCP Transmission Control Protocol The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP...	RTMP Real Time Messaging Protocol Real Time Messaging Protocol was initially a proprietary protocol developed by Macromedia for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a Flash player and a server...	MPEG-TS	Real Data Transport

General

Operating system support

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See also