Comparison table
Feature | Flash Media Server(FMIS 4) | Wowza Media | Red5 |
| Protocols supported | RTMP RTMPT RTMPS RTMPE RTMPTE | RTMP RTMPT RTMPS RTMPE RTMPTE | RTMP RTMPT RTMPS RTMPE RTMPTE |
| Developer edition | 10 Connections (Free) | 10 Connections (Free) | Free |
| Pricing | $4500 | $995 | 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 | Windows Debian/Ubuntu Mac OSX WAR Gentoo |
| Audio / Video Streaming (live and on-demand) | FLV H.264FLV MP3 AAC, LC-AAC, HE-AAC Speex | FLV H.264FLV 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) | Flash (RTMP) iPhone (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 |
| Action Method Format 3 (AMF3) | AMF3 | AMF3 | AMF |
| Server Side | AS2 | Java | Java |
