Features and Roadmap

 

Completed features as of Sprint 9 (released 2/4/10)

OSMF 1.0 is in development and currently includes the features below. For more on the newest features, see the blog post on the sprint 9 release.

Links to feature specs are included here to provide insight into the original design intent, but the specs don't get updated to reflect refactorings and API changes. For the most up-to-date guidance on how to use OSMF, see the Developer Documentation.

We continue to make progress on our lockdown of APIs, and we expect the lockdown to be largely complete in the next release at the end of sprint 10. Details of API changes in sprint 9 are included in the release notes. For more information on overall status of the API lockdown effort, please see the API Lockdown Status wiki page.

Packages

• Source code
• SWC library
• New: Compiled SWF "OSMF Player"

Framework Foundation

• MediaElement and Traits abstractions
• Media Loader (1, 2) and URL Parser
• Metadata infrastructure (1, 2, 3)
• Plug-in support (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) with dynamic (remote URL) and static (compiled in) loading
• Error Handling for developers
• Logging Framework
• Buffer Management

Video Delivery

• RTMP Streaming via Flash Media Server
• Dynamic Streaming (multi-bitrate) via Flash Media Server 3.5
• HTTP Progressive Download
• HTTP Streaming with Flash Player 10.1
• VOD and Live
• DRM Support (1, 2) via Flash Access 2.0
• Loader for F4M (Flash Media Manifest) files, which specify MBR, DRM, and other metadata
• Data Transfer trait to show download progress in compositions
• Subclips to incorporate RTMP stream sub-segments in compositions
• Preassigned durations (1, 2) to specify content length before loading

Rich Experiences

• MediaElement implementations: video, image, audio, SWF
• Composition API: serial and parallel hierarchies and nested structures, trait and metadata aggregation
• MediaPlayer wrapper for playback of media including compositions
• UI wrappers (1, 2)
• Layout APIs for media regions inside the player and in external HTML (via ExternalInterface)
• Metadata-driven experiences and dynamic playlists (enables ads and recommendations)
• Cue Points (embedded and external)
• New: Chrome Library

Plug-ins (ads, tracking, playlists, CDNs)

• Akamai CDN connection plug-in
• GlanceGuide/Nielsen sample app showing tracking plug-in integration
• VAST & MAST advertising plug-in libraries
• Captioning plug-in
• New: SMIL parser

Still under development for 1.0

• API lockdown
• Player size optimizations
• HTTP streaming (Project Zeri)
• DVR (FMS 3.5)
• MRSS/ATOM syndication library
• Any final changes in response to customer feedback

Sprint 10 release planned for early March
Release Candidate planned for April
Ship planned for May

Planned for a future release after 1.0

• Configuration API for chrome, plug-ins, layout
• QoS data (Flash 10 QoS APIs)
• Client context data API
• Visual component for Flash Authoring
• Wrapper for Flex