Some Adobe Media Server questions

Hello,
I need to setup Adobe Media server for my production environment and I have some questions.I need to have online media library (video on demand) available for end users as clips embedded in my site. My questions are:
- What kind of source files are supported (source format, video/audio codec etc).
- I also need dynamic video quality (user internet connection quality sholud be detected and video quality adjusted automatically). In addition, video should be transcoded and user should be able to choose video quality (and resolution) by hand. FlowPlayer is preffered player to be embedded to my site and it should be set up as client for adobe media server. What is the best way to implement this scenario? I can't find any step by step guide how to setup this (including dynamic quality adjustment). Any help
- Live streams. The same as vod. I assume I will need Flash Media Encoder to encode stream from input source, so client will need to setup bitrate and other parameters? How to setup dynamic quality for clients - will server transcode stream again? How to setup this? I can't find any guide step by step, can you help me?
- Video chat. How can I setup this using Adobe Media Server? Is this possible to make video chat via Adobe Media Server using flash applications like FSChat?

Hi
- What kind of source files are supported (source format, video/audio codec etc).
Full list is available here:
Adobe Media Server 5.0.7 * Supported clients, encoders, codecs, and file formats
- I also need dynamic video quality (user internet connection quality sholud be detected and video quality adjusted automatically). In addition, video should be transcoded and user should be able to choose video quality (and resolution) by hand. FlowPlayer is preffered player to be embedded to my site and it should be set up as client for adobe media server. What is the best way to implement this scenario? I can't find any step by step guide how to setup this (including dynamic quality adjustment). Any help
Guidelines on multi bitrate streaming should help:
Adobe Media Server 5.0.7 * Configure HTTP Dynamic Streaming and HTTP Live Streaming
- Live streams. The same as vod. I assume I will need Flash Media Encoder to encode stream from input source, so client will need to setup bitrate and other parameters? How to setup dynamic quality for clients - will server transcode stream again? How to setup this? I can't find any guide step by step, can you help me?
Guidelines on multi bitrate streaming should help:
Adobe Media Server 5.0.7 * Configure HTTP Dynamic Streaming and HTTP Live Streaming
- Video chat. How can I setup this using Adobe Media Server? Is this possible to make video chat via Adobe Media Server using flash applications like FSChat?
This is possible but will require some coding skills, an exampe can be found here.
Creating a video sharing web application using Flex, Flash Media Server, and Flash Media Encoding Server | Adobe Develo…
I am sure there are more examples to be found online.
Alternately you could try Adobe Connect if you want an out of the box solution ready to go. Also available as a pay as you go hosted solution:
Web conferencing software - Conference services | Adobe Connect 9
Hope this is of help.
Conor

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well i have a question and until today i didn't find an exact answer even with google and in forums.
in the adobe media server comparison ( http://www.adobe.com/products/adobe-media-server-family/buying-guide-comparison.html ) it is said that adobe media server 5 extended has a limit of 15000 RTMFP P2P INTRODUCTIONS.
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++ You would like to stream (broadcast, multicast or live unicast) to a client machine on the same or different subnet.
++ You would like to host all your sample VOD's on the server for the clients to access them.
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