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Comparison table

Feature	Flash Media Server(FMIS 4.5)	Wowza Media Server 3	Red5
Protocols supported	RTMP RTMPT RTMPS RTMPE RTMPTE RTMFP	RTMP RTMPT RTMPS RTMPE RTMPTE	RTMP RTMPT RTMPS RTMPE RTMPTE
Developer edition	10 Connections (Free)	10 Connections (Free)	Free
Pricing	$4500	$995 (30 day Trial also available) Daily License (5$) Monthly License (55$)	Free(Open Source)
Supported Platforms	Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 with Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2008 Linux® Red Hat® 4 or 5.2 Runs as a 32-bit software on both 32- and 64-bit operating systems.	Windows Mac OS X Linux Solaris Unix 64-bit Support on all IPv6 Support	Windows Debian/Ubuntu Mac OSX WAR Gentoo
Audio / Video Streaming (live and on-demand)	FLV H.264 FLV MP3 AAC, LC-AAC, HE-AAC Speex	FLV H.264 FLV MP3 AAC, LC-AAC, HE-AAC Speex	(On Demmand) FLV MP3 F4V MP4 AAC M4A (Live) Sorenson VP6 h.264 Nelly Moser MP3 Speex AAC NSV
Multi Client/ Multi Protocol Streaming	Flash (RTMP / HTTP) iPhone/iPad (HTTP Streaming)	Flash (RTMP) iPhone/iPad (HTTP Streaming) Silverlight (Smooth Streaming) QucikTime/3GPP (RTSP/RTP) IPTV (MPEG-TS)	Flash (RTMP)
Recording	H.264/AAC to FLV container MPEG-4	H.264/AAC to FLV container H.264/AAC to MP4 (Quicktime) container	FLV Only
Inbound Live Encoder Support	RTMP (Flash & H.264/AAC)	RTMP (Flash & H.264/AAC) RTSP / RTP / MPEG-TS (H.264/AAC: unicast, multicast, TCP, UDP) ICY (MP3/AAC: SHOUTcast/ icecast)
Action Method Format 3 (AMF3)	AMF3(Uni-directional )	AMF3(Bi-directional )	AMF3
Server Side	AS2	Java	Java