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Alternative to FMS now available as public beta

The Wowza Media Server is a commercial alternative to Adobe's Flash Media Server from a company of two ex-Adobe employees and is now available as a public beta.

Signup and download here: Wowza Media Systems :: Welcome.

Identify CS3 Icons here...

wheel-o'-icons, originally uploaded by сdнarriѕoη.

I'm with Peter on this one, i think the new icons are a tad confusing. Help out identifying the new icons on Flickr.  Lots of comments on John Nack's blog as well.

AS3 port of the Dual-treshold buffering strategy

I had a need for an AS3 version of the Dual-treshold buffering strategy by Fabio Sonnati so i rewrote it. Download and have fun :)

Link: Download BufferedNetStream Class.

If you have 5 minutes, help us make Fabchannel.com even better

You like music? You enjoy going to concerts? We need you! We're running a survey right now  and we 'd like to have your opinion. If you want to know what kind of stuff we're building with AS3 and FMS ( screenshots included ) please give us 5 minutes of your time so we can make Fabchannel better :) 

UPDATE: I updated the link to the survey, it should work now :)

Link: Fabchannel Survey.

ON2 Flix Engine SDK Pricing for the next Youtube startup...

This is the first mention of the Flix Engine SDK price ( serverside encoding of videofiles to VP6 FLV files with PHP, Java, Python and Perl for Linux and a whole set of other languages on Windows through COM interop ) that i see publicly available online. You want to work on the next Youtube? It'll cost you EURO 3750 for the software...follow the links, especially Flashhosting (dutch) for more information.

Link: FlashHosting (dutch).
Link: On2 Flix Engine SDK for Flash 8 - On2 Technologies.