Adobe to open flash platform messaging protocol

RTMP is the latest advancement of the Open Screen Project, an industry-wide initiative to enable the delivery of multi-screen experiences built on a runtime environment for Web browsing and standalone applications across personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics.

The specification is expected to be posted on the Adobe Developer Connection in the first half of 2009.

“With the RTMP specification, developers and companies will be able to provide users with optimised audio, video and data streaming, no matter what kind of device the user is on or where the content is coming from,” said Kevin Lynch CTO Adobe.

“Our ongoing commitment to openness is accelerating adoption of the Flash Platform by developers and resulting in a new generation of Web applications, content and video experiences that run reliably across operating systems and devices.”

Developers and companies will have free and open access to the documented RTMP specification to help enable delivery of video, audio and data in the open AMF, SWF, FLV and F4V formats compatible with Adobe Flash Player.

To benefit customers who want to protect their content, the open RTMP specification will not include Adobe’s RTMP measures, nor will the licence that accompanies the specification allow developers to circumvent such measures.

However, developers will be free to use their own technological measures to secure content.

The RTMP specification does not provide any requirement or restrictions on a developer’s own measures to secure content.

The Open Screen Project is an initiative with 20 major industry partners who are working together to provide a runtime environment for Web browsing and standalone applications.

This consistent runtime environment will remove barriers to publishing Web content and applications across desktops, mobile phones, televisions, and other consumer electronics.