Media Server (read-only)

Hello Friends, this is my first post.I would like to help on a  FMS servers.I am creating an application that will have  approximately 5000 users publishing and reading streams.My question  is which setup for my server?Regarding the RAM, HD, and processor.and  what the bandwidth for the average user?I intend to use a medium  quality webcam, and audio.Thanks in advance.I await answers.

We may be using Flash Media Server in an intranet only scenario.  All users will be watching the videos from Windows boxes.   Our users who are creating the videos want to track usage by user ID.  Does the server log the client's user ID? Is that what c-client-id is?  If c-client-id is used to store Windows user name do I need to turn on AD/windows authentication to get that info?  I see that IP address is stored, but it would be simpler if the user Id were in the log file.

Hi all, I need to be able to install the FlashMediaServer2.exe silently. As a result of googling, I found out that Adobe used "Inno Setup" from jrsoftware.org to create the installation file, and that by default /SILENT would be taken as parameter to start the unattended installation. However, I do not know and was unable to find out what command line switches/parameters to pass, in order to successfully run the installer. Trying the following command gives me a little MessageBox saying "You must enter admin user name": >FlashMediaServer2.exe /silent Does anybody know any link/information on this "silent installation" for FMS2?

Maybe I'm doing this wrong... In my:  "fms_install / applications / live" folder I've added the Application.xml code to allow debugging:Looks something like this:<Application> <AllowDebugDefault>true</AllowDebug Default> <AllowHTTPTunnel>true></AllowHTTPTunnel> <StreamManager> <VirtualDirectory>              <!-- Specifies application specific virtual directory mapping for streams.   --> <Streams>/;${LIVE_DIR}</Streams> </VirtualDirectory> </StreamManager> ...When I load up the FMS admin console though I can't preview the Live video streams.  Am I doing something wrong?( Live streams ARE working correctly.. this is just annoying me that I can't preview them through the admin console. )

Hi,We have a setup where we have one application that multiple clients use.  For each client we setup a seperate vHost on the server so that each client has a FMSCore and FMSEdge process running for their application.We currently monitor the processes to see if there are any problems with them on our production servers, but we would like to know if theres a way where we can link each process to a particular client so that if one goes down we are able to record the effect and notify that client.Thanks in advance!

Hey everybody, I hope you're having a wonderful day. My question is as follows:Right now I can view my live webcam feed from a client computer without any problems. What I need to do next is to view the client's webcam on the server. So its a bit like the common webcam chat room systems, with a difference of I only need use 2 computers; and I don't want to setup an additional media server to the client side (since it is the client side!). Any help would be much appreciated; thanks already for helping a newbie

I am recording video with fms and a webcam. For some reason the  NetStream.Buffer.Flush gets fired way before the end of the video. This  doesn't occur with other videos that I haven't recorded myself.Is  this a normal thing or am I missing something essential regarding the  recording?

Hi:I want to buy Flash Media Interactive Server, I'm from Chile and method paid Chile don't there is.How could buy it?Regards.

Hi,I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on a problem I've had for a number of days now.We have a flash based video player that uses flv's provided by FMS3.5 on the same web box (IIS) with a number of websites hosted on the same box.I'm getting a browser based SSL certificate exception on our production server, but only when the website/video player is viewed from outside the corporate firewall. (Usually it's the other way around)"A secure connection with this site cannot be verified..." and it gives the url of another site that's hosted on the same IIS box.If I view the swf in the flash player or from behind the corp firewall I get no error, however if I view it from outside I get the error. If I accept the SSL cert I still get a connectionError.I've tried adding a crossdomain policy file and even adding the path to that file to the server.xml config for FMS but still get the error/issue.I'm stumped - hoping someone here can shed some light on the problem.RegardsRR

Hello,I have tried to stream live video from webcam and it goes very well. Now I would like to know how to broadcast video that I've been stored in server and make it live (as what happened with the webcam) to client? I want the client to view the video at the same point as the other client does.. Can anyone help me how make this?

Hi,I am trying to understand the exact difference between progressive and streaming videos. Basically, I want something like youtube. When I run the sample videoplayer.html that comes with FMS (I edited the HTML to include the huge (1 hr) MP4 file that I have) , I see that the video is completely loaded and then only, the player starts playing it. I can see the progress in buffering the video. How to make it play as soon as it starts downloading (the user clicks play, of course) - like the way YouTube does? Are there any server side settings to make this happen?Please let me know.Thanks,Sankaranarayanan V

I'm sorry, but I wanna change the dimension of the built-in flash player that we get from installing the FMS.. can i do that?I need it to fit my web in the center, and on the left & right side there's bar for ads..anyway, I embed my web with the videoPlayer.swf I got from this folder:"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash Media Server 3.5\samples\videoPlayer\swfs"then I checked the source folder and i realized that it's builed with Flex, and I'm not proficient in Flex.After that I tried to decompile the .swf file using sothink swf decompiler and recompile it again, but it gives me error message in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional.Any idea guys?TIA,-shenli-

Hello All,I am new to Flash Media Server but I have fair knowledge on ActionScript & Flex.I am about to start a Video Chat/Conference application.This will be a web application at first.Depending on the success we may decide to make an AIR desktop version later.Now i would be highly thankful to anyone who has prior knowledge of building something like this and is willing to share his knowledge and experience.Any suggestion on this will be a real help for me.Can someone show me the right way?Thanks Pallab

I'm trying to send metaData from client to FMS server when recording Webcam video and have implemented sending of metaData as stated on Adobe's help page at: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_Deving/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0773d56e-7ff6.htmlHowever when I play the recorded video  from FMS, my custom metaData properties trace "undefined". I can trace  default metaData properties such as duration or videocodecid  successfully, but not my custom properties such customProp, width or height. Here is part of my code that is related to the issue:   private function  ncNetStatus(event:NetStatusEvent):void {                    if  (event.info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success") {              ns = new NetStream(nc);           ns.client = this; 

I recently upgraded from FMS 2 - FMIS 3.5.  Over our internal network videos stream like a dream!  However, accessing them from outside our own network means that they take about 20 seconds to load, or sometimes just get a message saying the server isn't found.This wasn't a problem with the FMS2 and there have been no changes to firewall settings or anything like that since the old server was up and running without problems.  I have the new server set to use exaclty the same ports, but wonder if there are some other settings which could be causing this?Networking isn't really my area of expertise, and I have no idea where to start looking to improve things.  Can anyone offer some suggestions as to why this would be happening?  Would appreciate any help.  Thanks

I have upgraded from FMS2 > Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5I added both the seriel number for FMS3 and FMS2 during the installation process.  When I logged onto the admin panel there was no licence listed, and a link saying "to upgrade to unlimited connections now, click here".So, I checked the fms.ini and no seriel was there.  I put the seriel number in and restarted the server through the FMSadmin tool.  Still, no licence file was showing.I then added the licence file via the admin panel and got a dialogue saying "Seriel Key "blah" Sent To The Server for approval".  The seriel key now appears with a valid status of false.  And no further progress after that.   The documentation states that when you add the seriel key in this manner it should recognise it immediately.Can anyone suggest what I might have done wrong?  I have trebble checked the seriel number, and copied and pasted it to make sure it is exactly right.Help appreciated as we ha

In my .smil file, if I put this line it works:<video src="sample.flv" system-bitrate="150000"/>But if I put the following line it doesn't work:<video src="mp4:sample1_150kbps.f4v" system-bitrate="150000"/>Both video files are in the webroot\vod folder.I am using the sample dynamicStream.smil code, so my syntax should be right.Does anyone see what I am doing wrong?Thanks

Hi all,I want to make a web application with FMS, in which there will be a live webcam broadcast only(No web conference). I mean one webcam will broadcast only in page and people can be able to watch it when open that page.I now FMS is limit if we dont buy the product.What I want to find out, if I make this web site and when people start to enter page for watching, when the user limit reachs 10 what will happen?and If one of these users close the page (for example count decreases to 9) ,then does another client able to watch when open the page? After all the user or stream count will be max 10 anyway.I want to make this application as a plot(trial).Can I use FMS for this purpose without buying it?Thanks all...

hallo,iám streaming a pal signal over FMS, i can get it over a PC or Mac on a Flash Player.is there anybody who know a hardware ti get it out over SDI?

I know the engine is derived from Mozilla SpiderMonkey.I am using an object which properties are IP addresses, i mean literally, as in:object["123.456.789.012"]The object is a map of banned clients. The number of properties approaches several hundreds. I wonder if this is a strain on the engine in any way?The reason I use this is because property lookup is just about the fastest thing you can do, as opposed to say an array with indexes and ip addresses as values, which would be an O(n) operation when doing lookup.

Hello Friends                     Can Anybody guide me how to call a particular client from fms.Actually i m making a private chat application in which text messg send from one client to another specific client through FMS.So i m confused how gms recognize a particular clients.I am avoiding application .client[] array that contains all the connected users references.becoz it changes at the time of connection and disconnection of client from fms.So please guide me how to call a particular one from client.please help me out i m working on this from past 5 days but could not get any idea.Thanks And Regards   Vineet Osho

Hi,I'm reasonably certain I know the answer to this, but I just wanted to make sure, as if it were possible, my life would be much easier.I know the FMS is good for streaming things video to clients and for clients to publish videos from their attached camera. Is it possible for a client to publish something other than a stream from a connected camera, for example, the contents of my swf stage? Is it possible to draw something like a text overlay onto a published stream?Thanks.

Hi,on our staging platform I'm testing 3.5.3 instead of earlier 3.5.1. However, I've had a problem with fmsedge crashing straight on startup:Edge (10636) is no longer active.Edge (10636) _defaultRoot__edge1 experienced 1 failure!Edge (10644) started, arguments : -edgeports ":1935" -coreports "localhost:19350" -conf "/opt/adobe/fms35/conf/Server.xml" -adaptor "_defaultRoot_" -name "_defaultRoot__edge1".After some digging I found out that running as root (SERVER.PROCESS_UID=0) instead of my fms user, the problem went away. Further digging with some strace & the proper UID configured revealed this:dev /opt/adobe/fms35# env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:. strace ./fmsedge -edgeports ":1936" -coreports "localhost:19360" -conf "/opt/adobe/fms35/conf/Server.xml" -adaptor "_defaultRoot_" -name "_defaultRoot__edge1"...setuid32(511)                          

Hi there,     My app is having a rare behavior when I reject a connection from the server, I really dont understand why my AIR app get closed when I reject a connection from the server, I have in the client-side;     var netConnecttion:NetConnection = new NetConnection();          netConnecttion.client = this;          netConnecttion.connect("rtmp://server/myapp/", user.text, pass.text);When I run it, it normally connects to the server, in the server-side I Have;application.onConnect = function (clientObj, user, pass ) {     if (user == "root") {            application.acceptConnection(clientObj);        }            else {            &n

Hello!A client needs a Flash streaming software to best serve the following:750 Mb/s Internet bandwidthAverage 7 minutes video lengthAverage 1,100 video requests3,500 video requests at peak hours99,9% SLAWill Flash Media Server do the job or will I need something else?Thank you very much for any ideas.