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Hi, There are three video sources.1- educational videos on the system that can be played on demand. (VOD local)2- streaming videos available on different websites that can be played on demand (VOD remote)3- IPTV live streaming videos   videos from three sources have to be played within single flash player that we need to design.   For the two VOD types, we have to provide the pause and play functionality.For IPTV, pause and play is not required, However, channel switching time is critically important here. The user should get the program behavior as close to TV experience as possible. This means channel switching should be fast. To provide this, buffering of video is required for multiple channels.   Please provide some tips on how is this possible in Flash Media Streaming Server 4.0 and if there is a cheaper solution available to do this on.   Thankyou,

Hello Everyone,I have an application where it records stream from my webcam, stores it in fms 3.5 application folder.Recording is fine, I am using camera.setMode() method to set the width and height properties for the recording.for eg: cam.setMode(388,284,15,false);But when we check for the recorded video i am getting the widht and height as 352 , 264. even after changing the faovare boolean to false.Can any one help me how i should set the camera so that the recorded video is of same size which i have given.Thanks in Advance,Lavanya.

We need different parameters to play live/playback:  // play live from server  //ns.play("test",-1,-1,true);  //playback  //ns.play("test",0);So how to wrap it all up so that it'll automatically detect whether the stream to play is alive,and use the proper parameters ?

I'm trying to record an audio/video program and the resulting .flv is in the wrong directory.  It always ends up in application/live.  I copied the sample application to application/eTutor and have the following code: private var rtmpPath:String = "rtmp://x.x.x.x/eTutor"; private var rtmpSession:String = "0_738_0_9_6_6_2012_8_00_00_AM";...   nc2.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS,onFMSNetStatus);   nc2.client = this;   nc2.connect(rtmpPath2 + "/" + rtmpSession);...   case "NetConnection.Connect.Success":    ns2 = new NetStream(nc2);    ns2.client = this;    ns2.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS,onFMSNetStatus);    ns2.attachAudio(mic);    ns2.attachCamera(cam);    ns2.publish("LS" + hostCallCount.toString(),"record");The .flv always ends up in application/live... why?sr

I have a fms 3.5 server that stalls when playing content regularly. After restarting through the admin console streams play again. Any help is appreciated.

Can you access the FMS Start Screen to verify installation remotely? We have a new FMS 3.5.4 installation set up by our IS team, but cannot remote directly into the box to verify the installation per the installation guide. Is there a URL that can be used to access the FMS Start Screen if FMS was installed with Apache?Thanks!

Hi everyone,I am just investigating requirements for a new project and wanted to ask a few questions about FMS if you'd be so kind. The site i'm building will (amongst other things) stream video that has been uploaded (predominantly by the site admin, but also potentially by users) and i need a solution for this. Additionally (ideally) the site will do live broadcasts every now and then that users can watch. As a result my questions are:- Presumably we will need to add some encoding software onto the site to convert various file formats into FLV so FMS can play them (as it doesn't include any conversion functionality)?- We would be using a relatively powerful dedicated server, is it generally suggested that you install FMS on a totally different server or can it run on your main server (as long as you aren't serving ridiculous amounts of video simultaneously).-Am i right in saying that if we use FMS then it won't work on the iphone or the ipad because of the lack of flash support? Is t

I want to get information about :How many FMS connections are there in total?How many connections to a specific stream are there in total?How many online FMS user are there ?Anyone knows?

Hi,I am trying to make clients to connect FMS4 server over RTMFP for my video conferencing application.It is basically a client-server media relay application in which clients with webcam/mic connect the server and the server relays video/audio data to other clients. This application is working perfectly with FMS 3.0 but it was RTMP rather than RTMFP - I simply replaced 'RTMP' with 'RTMFP' in netConnetion and tried to test in Flash Media Development Server 4.0, but it is failed to make a connection from a client - it was working after replacing it back with 'RTMP' of course.I believe server-client media relay is possibe using RTMFP in FMS4 because Adobe said:"Although RTMFP is often used for peer-assisted networking applications, you can use RTMFP in unicast, broadcast, and multi-point publishing applications as well. Simply replace the RTMP protocol in the NetConnection.connect() call with the RTMFP protocol:" inhttp://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/devguide/WSa4cb07693d1238845

Hello guys. I'm using the RTMFP protocol to publish and play video and audio, but i'm with a little problem. I installed the FMS 4 Development Server in a Windows Server machine located in our local network and it works perfectly. In order to deploy our application, we have a remote server with a fresh install of the Ubuntu 10.04 Server, and the FMS 4 installed in this server. In other server we have the Java and Flex application, which will be used in the client browser.The problem is that when trying to change the NetConnection url to the remote FMS server, which is the Ubuntu server, the netconnection can't connect to it. When changing to the RTMP protocol it connects, but with the RTMFP don't. I can't find any information in the log files or anything else.Does anyone can help me?Regards.

I posted this over in the Flex forums and haven't gotten a peep in two days...  I'm trying to connect to an FMS server with a Flex application.  I can throw the rtmp URL straight in as the source for a VideoPlayer and it will work, but can't figure out how to get it to work with a NetStream.  The pure Flash Video element works as in the FMS Flash demos, but is extremely laggy and lacks all the nice functionality of the built VideoPlayer.Is there any documentation on working with FMS with Flex?  We're at a point where we need to decide quickly if FMS will do what we need to do or if we should purse other technologies.Thanks

HI, i had installed  a FMS4 developper  in server on my centOs. I can connect to my FMS with client with RTMP, but with RTMFP, FMS don't reply. I looked at FMS log and i saw edge.00.log:2010-09-30      13:11:53        4984    (e)2631504      RTMFP could not start on edge process for _defaultRoot__edge1. Famille d'adresses non supportée par le protocole  -

Is the developer or trial edition of FMS 3.5.x available anywhere? I've searched on the main Adobe site with no luck, and need it to install a new instance of FMS.Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi,I managed to make working a FMS 3.5.1 On  CentOS 5.5, but installing 3.5.2 or 3.5.3 don't work. I can't see any  logs nor error messages.Playing videos using the Adobe Sample Video Player works on 3.5.1 but don' with the newer versions.I installed the different versions in exactly the same way.Thanks for help

I've installed Flash Media Server 4 (I tried on i686 and x86 with CentOS)also have uploaded applications to /opt/adove/fms/applications/testhere what I see in log files:Connection rejected by server. Reason : [ Server.Reject ] : (_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application (test/_definst_) is not a valid signed application; loading access denied.please somebody help

I want to change the logs files directory from:C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Flash Media Server 3.5/logsto:D:\fmsLogsPlease halp me to understand...in adobe in:Home / Flash Media Server  3.5 Configuration and Administration Guide / XML configuration files referenceit says:--------------------------------in Logger.xml in DirectorySpecifies the directory where the log files are located.By default, the log files are located in the logs directory in the server installation directory.Example:<Directory>${LOGGER.LOGDIR}</Directory>------------------------------what this meens: ${LOGGER.LOGDIR} ?in order to change the logs files directory from:C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Flash Media Server 3.5/logsto:D:\fmsLogsdo i need to write this:<Directory>D:\fmsLogs</Directory>or what do i neet to write?it is totaly not understandable from this example...big thanks for any halpcheinan

I am planning to upgrade to FMIS v4.  Currently, I am using v2 and encoding separate files for each bit-rate (i.e. 100K. 400K, 700K).  Can I encode all audiences to one file like Windows Media Player,have FMIS stream that file, and have the local Flash Player detect the correct version and stream it?Michael

The Administration API exposes many methods that allow for monitoring and administration of Flash Media Server. Evidently, the Administration Console provided with Flash Media Server uses this API via RTMP. It must then be possible to receive the log messages that are created when server-side actionscript calls the trace method as these messages are received by the Administration Console. But I cannot find any reference to this in the Administration API documentation. How can I pick up these messages?For example, if you were to build your own administration console, as the documentation welcomes you to do, how would you replicate the "Live Log"?

Im doing live streaming directly from webcam like Ustream.TV. Im  using Flash Media Server 3.5, and I record cuepoints of broadcaster with  the method ns = new NetStream(); ns.send('functionName' , 'value'); I publish the content and record it in a .flv file. However when I  download this FLV file and extract the metadata with tools like  FLVTOOL2, or FLVMETA, the cuepoints that I recorded with ns.send()  method doesn`t show. I know they are there since when I play the FLV file in another client, I  can receive the calls for the 'functionName' in the exact time that I  call while recording. What I`m doing wrong? I would like to encode recorded video with Flash Media Encoder and  insert into it CuePoints that can call to the same function that I do  with live streaming. To do that, first I need to know how the CuePoints  are created and fixed into the FLV file that I record directly from  webcam. I need to know how they are st

Hi,       I am having fms servers running on 20 machines. I want to cluster them so I m doing edge-origin configuration. I want to have multiple Origin Servers. Can I cluster multiple Origin Servers?  Can someone advice or any pointers please.ThanksKarthik.

I have set up a simple web seminar application that broadcasts live and also records the stream for on-demand playback. I can record the audio-only stream and play it back without issues. However, I run in to problems when I try to use the NetStream.send() functionality in the recording. The playback just stops during the playback of the recorded FLV. Everything will work fine and then it just stops and cannot continue (I have to manually seek ahead for the playback to get going again). The farthest we have gotten is 30 minutes into the playback and then it stopped working. Has anyone else experienced this problem? [Code] mic.setRate(11); live_stream.publish("12345", "append"); live_stream.send("changeSlide", "10"); [Details] FMS 2.0.4 Audio only. No video 11 Khz audio rate I can record just the audio without using the NetStream.send() and the FLV plays back fine. The issue is when I try to record the send message events with the FLV. Are there any FLV inspectors available that woul

Hi Folks...I was running some sample code for a 2 way chat app. It was recomended that 2 cameras be used, well there is a built in camera in my laptop so I fixed up an external webcam as the 2nd cam. I have alreay published the two fla files as webpages. When I invoke both these html files, the video feed is only from the built in camera. How do I tell the system to use the external webcam for one of the html files? Hope someone can advise. Thanks.

Greetings all,In short I am trying to stream from file. By this I mean a solution where the user views the streaming video as something like "http://stream.somesite.com" and not "http://stream.somesite.com/vod/vmp4:video1(and then video2, and then video3)"The goal is to seamlessly update the playlist of files (remove/re-order/append) that is being streamed in the background so to the end-user it's just one continuous live stream. You could equate it to watching TV, actually.The reason I am asking is that software like Flash media Encoder can only play from live sources like capture cards, screen capture software, or webcameras, and then software like Flash Media Streaming Server 4.0 can only play from specific files directly. While you can stream from an XML playlist, I want all the viewers to be watching from the same point and not be able to prematurely change the video.This setup is best seen in popular site like Justin.tv and livestream. The key differences I am looking for is to s

Because of network latency,there will always be latency, how to know how many seconds the latency is with ActionScript?