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A streaming media server developed by RealNetworks

A streaming media server developed by RealNetworks

The latest generation of Helix Universal Media Server (Version 15) now supports a wide variety of streaming media delivery transports including MPEG-DASH (Standards based HTTP streaming) RTMP (flash), RTSP (standard), HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Microsoft Silverlight and HTTP Progressive Download enabling mobile phone OS (Android, Blackberry, iOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile) and PC OS media client (Flash Media Player, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player) delivery.

Helix Universal Media Server delivers multiple streaming media codecs including H.264, MPEG-4, Flash Media, RealMedia, QuickTime, Windows Media and a wide range of audio codecs including AAC/AAC+, MP4, MP3, WAV, RealAudio.

Helix Universal Media Sever ingests a wide variety of encoder formats including RTP, MPEG2-TS, RTMP (Flash) and Windows Media Push/Pull MMS.

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How to record a video directly on Helix Server from my Android device?

I am new to server side development. I want to work on an application and I need to record a video on Helix Server from my Android device through my application. I have installed the Helix Server on a Windows Server PC. In the Android application, I…
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How can I stream cross-platform video without using RealServer (Helix) and Real Player?

For years we've been using RealNetworks' Helix server to serve streaming video courses. It has been a pretty reliable solution up until now. As of late, our support calls due to RealPlayer issues has gone from 2 or 3 a week (mostly PEBKAC or…
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Helix stream rtmp and hls from one folder

Is it possible to stream using rtmp to flash clients and hls to IOS devices at the same time while using one folder and one source file ?
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Helix Server - Unable to see segmented files in IPhone folder during stream

I've configured my Helix Server as per the documentation: http://helixforum.realnetworks.com/he... I am attempting to view a stream on a BlackBerry 9900. My video files are in the content/Iphone-src directory. When I attempt to load a stream on my…
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How to stream Audio from Helix Server?

How does Helix Server work with android application? In android developers site i found that we can assign the url to MediaPlayer to stream the audio/video. But there is no specification about buffer size.. do i need to do any more coding on server…
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