One thing kept bugging us though; now that there’s all this great support in Flash for HTTP protocols, might it be possible to actually deliver Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol to Flash as well? This would, of course, have great benefits for our customers already using Unicorn Once for delivery to the myriad of devices (iPhone, iPad, Roku, Samsung, LG, etc) that already support HLS, since those HLS fragments would potentially have higher cache-ability in the CDN, and thus better performance. Well, it turns out it was indeed possible to deliver HLS to Flash, just as we had thought. We found a great project that had already been started, but apparently abandoned before more advanced features like dynamic stream switching had been added. We announced today that we have extended that project and will soon be releasing the updated version to the world as an open-source library called the Once More Project. The decision to entirely open source this software (our first contribution to the open source community) was made primarily because we think this kind of technology needs to proliferate throughout the entire industry. In keeping with the overall vision for Unicorn Once, we wanted to ensure that our clients have their choice about how they want to deliver their content on every device- and because we believe in open standards like HLS.
SEE apple-http-osmf project : http://code.google.com/p/apple-http-osmf
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