List of RTMP software

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List of software that implements the Real-Time Messaging Protocol, primarily known from Adobe Flash.

RTMP live video encoder software

• Adobe Media Flash Live Encoder
• FFmpeg
• Nimble Streamer Transcoder
• Open Broadcaster Software
• XSplit Broadcaster
• Wirecast
• Wowza Transcoder, a module part of the Wowza Streaming Engine

RTMP server software

The primary motivation for RTMP was to be a protocol for playing Flash video (Adobe Flash Player) maintaining persistent connections and allows low-latency communication, but in July 2017, Adobe announced that it would end support for Flash Player at the end of 2020, ^[1] and continued to encourage the use of open HTML5 standards in place of Flash.

Due to this, RTMP streaming support is declining rapidly, but it is still very useful for broadcasting live, because of its low-latency. The broadcaster ingests the stream through a RTMP server which then encodes and sends the resultant stream to a HLS ^[2] (HTTP Live Streaming) URL.  The stream can then be viewed on a number of players and devices including desktops,smartphones and social media sites.

Some full implementation RTMP servers are:

• Adobe Flash Media Server ^[3]
• FreeSWITCH RTMP media streaming available with mod_rtmp and allow interconnecting with other VoIP protocols (SIP, H.323), etc.
• Nginx with nginx-rtmp-module
• Nimble Streamer has RTMP streaming, publishing and re-publishing ^[4]
• Helix Universal Server can support RTMP, RTMPT and RTMPS streaming for live and on-demand content. (Discontinued in 2014)
• Red5 Media Server is a Java open source project.
• OvenMediaEngine is an open source project that receives RTMP and transmits it with low latency.
• Unreal Media Server supports live RTMP streaming, in real-time and buffered modes ^[5]
• Wowza Streaming Engine has full support for RTMP streaming for live streams and VOD ^[6]
• WebORB Integration Server (RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS messaging and media streaming available for .NET and Java Enterprise, Community and Cloud editions)
• Flashphoner Web Call Server – a multi-protocol server (including SIP, RTMP and other)

Client software

Application	Platform	Description
Adobe Flash Player (web browser plug-in)	Windows, OS X, ChromeOS, Linux	The most widely adopted RTMP client, which supports playback of audio and video streamed from RTMP servers.
Gnash (web browser plug-in/media player)	Windows, Linux	An open source replacement for the Flash Player, intends to support RTMP streaming for Linux. [7]
VLC media player	Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android	As of version 2.1+ Has partial support for playing RTMP streams (not RTMPE).
MPC-HC	Windows	As of version 1.7.8+ Can open rtmp streams if started from command prompt with the URL as argument, or with entering the URL into the "Open File..." dialog.
Kodi	Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS (jailbroken), Android	Has partial support for playing RTMP streams (not RTMPE).

References

1. "Adobe will finally kill Flash in 2020". 25 July 2017.
2. "RTMP vs HLS".
3. "Tutorial: stream live media (RTMP)".
4. "RTMP streaming capabilities of Nimble Streamer - Softvelum". wmspanel.com. Retrieved 2021-07-30. Nimble Streamer supports RTMP over SSL (RTMPS) to perform secure transmission in all supported modes
5. "Unreal Media Server". umediaserver.net. Retrieved 2021-07-30. Unreal Media Server supports ingesting live streams from wide range of live software and hardware encoders that send streams over WebRTC, RTMP, RTSP (...)
6. "Use RTMP to distribute live streams". www.wowza.com. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
7. "Linux Funding" . Retrieved 1 January 2010.