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  • Helix Universal Media Server Specifications

    The Helix Universal Media Server works with any mobile network and supports the broadest set of formats, codecs and protocols.

    Technical Specifications

    Formats Codecs Protocols
    • 3GPP
    • 3GPP2
    • FLV, F4V*
    • MPEG-4
    • Windows Media
    • QuickTime
    • RealAudio® and RealVideo®
    • MP3
    • SMIL
    • And more
    • H.263
    • H.264
    • AAC
    • AAC Plus (HE-AAC)
    • AMR-NB
    • AMR-WB
    • Various Flash codecs in FLV*
    • VC1
    • And more
    • RTSP
    • RTP
    • RBS (Helix-to-Helix)
    • RDT (Helix-to-Helix)
    • HTTP*
    • HTTP cloaking*
    • HTTP streaming to iPhone*
    • HTTP progressive download*
    • RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPS*
    • MMS (Windows Media)
    • MS-WMSP*

    *Not supported in Helix Proxy.

    System Requirements

    Operating Systems Hardware Requirements
    • Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit
    • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server 5 64-bit/32-bit**
    • Oracle® Solaris 10 64-bit***
    • 3.2GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor
      (dual Intel Xeon or faster recommended)
    • SPARC Tx Series or better
    • 32-bit operating systems: 2GB of RAM (4GB)
    • 64-bit operating systems: 4GB of RAM (8GB)
    • 1 GB Ethernet card recommended

    **Note: Clones of RHEL 5.x are not officially supported.
    *** Solaris on x86 is not supported.