Real-Time Media Flow Protocol: Difference between revisions

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Unlike RTMP, RTMFP also supports sending data directly from one Adobe Flash Player to another,

without going through a server. A server‐side connection will always be required to establish the initial connection between the end‐users and can be used to provide server‐side data execution or gateways into other systems. The user of a [[Adobe Flash Media Server|Flash Media Server]] will also be required to authorize network address lookup and [[NAT traversal]] services for the clients to prevent Flash Player from being used in an unmanaged way.

== Application-level multicast ==

Flash Player 10.0 allowed only one-to-one communication for P2P, but from 10.1 application-level multicast is allowed. Flash Player finds appropriate distribution route ([[overlay network]]), and can distribute to the group, which is connected by P2P.

==History==