White House streaming live with Flash

Posted by on Mar 26, 2009 in flash video | 1 comment

Imagine you are the most powerful man on the planet. You want to organize a town hall meeting online so that anyone anywhere can view the meeting online without having to install anything new. Which technology would you choose? The answer is simple: Flash.

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Barack Obama just started an online town hall meeting where he will answer the questions people could submit and vote for online. I’m currently on a hotel network and it’s still streaming in nicely.

They are streaming this using Flash Media Server 3.5 (the latest version of FMS) which does dynamic streaming and even allows you to pause the live broadcast. Check it out on http://www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions/

Flash on!

1 Comment

  1. Willem
    March 26, 2009

    I must say it’s running really smooth at the moment. I can only imagine how much visitors they have watching this at the same time

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