Adobe Media Server 5 Extended
Fourteen33 | 5.0.11Linux/Unix, CentOS 6.8 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Very Difficult to Install
Instructions for using Putty to connect Adobe Media Server 5 was very difficult to achieve. Support on the Forum and product developer was not provided. I uninstalled and I'm trying Wowza Streaming Engine. I even went to YouTube to find video on how to install without success.
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no support for modern instance types (C3 and M3)
Adobe sent me an email on August 22 that says: "Adobe Media Server in Marketplace now supports: New Generation instances".
One month later, it's still not available.
confused by instance type reference
The Adobe pricing data uses m1 and m2 instances. The AWS reserved instance documentation shows neither of those. Confusing even to someone who has AWS instances running for years.
SSH login problem
For those who cannot login with SSH, try use the user amsadmin and see here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/adobemediaserver/amazonec2/WS6fc2df2b6d2ce24359910e2812c396a83eb-7fff.2.3.1.html
It is really frustrating in spending hours to find a way to login with ssh.
Out of date documentation, and unrefined product
A lot of effort put into this without the proper documentation to get it up and working for a simple live streaming. I got red5 working in couple of hours. AWS and AMS still not 100% done and its been a day.
very confusing configuration
Not able to access via SSH with root which is essential for our application. Also spent countless hours with Amazon support with to results on how to get this working.
Access the web admin interface also a problem because I don't know what user/pass to use. Neither Amazon support .
Not user friendly.
The scenario I wanted to support is serving video files from my server to AWS and stream them to the user from AWS.
One problem I encountered is that there is no one tutorial that covers all the necessary steps. It seems that I have to go through some of the steps from the live streaming tutorials and additional steps from the VOD tutorial.
Even if there was one tutorial to go through all the necessary steps, there are many of them, some pretty complicated and required knowledge and understanding in video streaming technology and terminology even in the middle stages that the platform can do for me (in order to configure them correctly).
I would prefer a product (or a stack of products) that require little to non configuration (have good defaults) and is accessible to a person with little knowledge of video streaming.