General Setup
View and configure your RealServer's basic settings: Ports; Logging (including Client GUID management); HTTP Delivery; IP Binding; MIME Types; Mount Points; Connection Control; ISP Hosting; and User/Group ID (UNIX platforms only).
Broadcasting
Set your encoder options. Set up live archiving and configure your Server for live broadcasting.
Splitting
Set up your Splitting control list and sources. Push or pull splitting allows more people to see your content, with better quality.
Multicasting
Configure multicasting. Multicasting is a bandwidth-conserving method of sending a single live stream to only those clients who request the data. Multicasting conserves bandwidth. In contrast, regular unicasting transmission sends a stream to each player who requests it.
Cache
Configure media caching. Caching enables live content to be viewed with better quality of service by more people, while conserving bandwidth. By default, all local content on a RealServer is cached.
Security
RealServer security features let you control access to your content in different ways: by restricting specific IP addresses, or by requiring a password. RealServer user authentication commerce can be used for commercial applications such as rigorous tracking of user demographics, pay-per-view events, music distribution, distance learning, premium content subscription, programmed music videos, karaoke, and restricted executive briefings.
Advertising
The optional Advertising Application is a powerful RealServer feature that delivers targeted rich-media advertising within the RealPlayer, and gives you the ability to generate additional revenue by streaming targeted ads in conjunction with your streaming media content.
View Source
The View Source feature allows users of RealPlayer (7.0 and above) to view the source code for SMIL presentations or information about media clips. Users can explore how to create their own SMIL files, and content creators can troubleshoot their SMIL files. The content browsing feature displays a Web-based list of all on-demand content that your Server can stream.