Akamai has released a set of classes that let you do some interesting and useful things that are required when building a video player. The classes are capable of doing all of the following, and are released under an open source license.
- Connecting to Akamai (and other services) through firewalls and proxy servers
- Measure bandwidth
- Double buffering
- Play protected, live and encrypted streams
- Handling cue points
- Read playlists in Media RSS format
You can read the full post about this HERE