Adobe Platform Will Stream Videos To Apple’s iPad

Adobe Systems' Flash Media Server platform is poised to embrace new HTML5 capabilities that will enable content publishers to stream protected video to more mobile devices, including Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. To make this happen, Adobe will add support for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) -- a technology developed by Apple as part of the company's QuickTime X and iOS software.

Demonstrated last week at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Adobe's HLS-enabled Flash Media Server (FMS) promises to deliver a compatible MPEG2 transport stream to mobile devices lacking Adobe Flash support, which is welcome news, observed Al Hilwa, director of applications program development at IDC. Read more...