I'm looking into streaming of prerecorded h.264 videos of HTTP. I'm running into too many firewall problems using RTMP.
Are people picking up on the new Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming approach? http://www.adobe.com/products/httpdynamicstreaming/
Anybody with positive experiences using Akamai HD? http://wwwns.akamai.com/hdnetwork/demo/flash/zeri/index.html
Or is the older HTTP Pseudo Streaming still the way to go? http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/12534/video-delivery-http-pseudo-streaming
I found it striking that none of the online encoding services I looked at support the F4F and FMF Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming formats.
http://www.encoding.com http://heywatch.com/page/home http://zencoder.com http://www.pandastream.com
Ideal would actually be an OSMF plugin that supports Apple's m3u8 HTTP Streaming approach, because no special server components are required and it would be compatible with iphone and android 3. But that plugin doesn't appear to exist yet and I have too many time/budget constraints in the project to write such a plugin myself.