Media Server (read-only)

Hello,We are planning an implementation that would be setup as automatic failover in the event of a disaster. We only have two physical servers (Windows 2008 R2 based). What is everyone's suggestion? I read a lot about origin-only cluster and origin-edge clusters. It seems like origin-only cluster would work best for this type of fail over but I'm not sure. We would most likely use Microsoft network load balancer built-in on Windows 2008 R2. We have the option of using remote storage but could also do local storage. The types of streaming would be videos loaded to the server (not live). Let me know any suggestions to achive an automatic failover with two physical systems

Hello,i am currently playing around with a flash media server trial in combination with the flowplayer.All in all i am testing the performance and general functionality for the company i work for.Anyways, i am trying to search a way to check the bandwidth of a client ( server sided ) and redirecting him to the right video stream.Sure this could be done by the backend flash application, but its out intention to perform this check server sided.I've searched for some time now without any resonable results. Most seem to check the bandwidth through their flash application ( Actionscript )what i try to avoid.Any help is appreciated,Frank

Is there some FMS-specific reason why a sendAndLoad function in SSAS couldn't connect to a site on an IP address? Are there any configurations that would need to be set to allow/deny this type of connection? We have a server instance that can only connect to sites hosted on fully qualified domains.

Hi,I have a application which will record the user voice using flash media server 3.5. My application and flash media servers are in two different servers. I am using sun java webserver to serve my website, is there any plugin or way to communicate the fms via webserver? can i you reverse proxy plugin to proxy the request from flash client to fms server via sun webserver? like below example?<Object name="flash">#ObjectType fn="check-passthrough" type="magnus-internal/passthrough"Service fn="service-passthrough" servers="http://<fms server ip>:1935"</Object>Another question is, why do we need apache installed along with fms what is the purpose of apache? can i just install the fms standalone listining on 1935 and use reverse proxy plugin to proxy the request from client to fms server?One more, when i do rtmpt, the client will directly hit the http://fms:80? orThanks

How to save the file .

Hey guys.I'm having really strange situation here and tought maybe u can give some tip, where to search.im recording stream on server side with simple function: var l_s = Stream.get(someNameHere); l_s.onStatus = function(info){         trace("RECORDING STREAM ON STATUS: ") for (var i in info ) trace ("    "+i+": "+info); trace(">>>>>"); }; if (l_s) { var l_success = l_s.record("record"); l_s.play(p_info.path, -1, -1);}now its the strange part:for some reasone stream is being recorded for some random time like 1MB, other 5MB other 12, etc and then suddenly without any onStatus information (which is traced) it stops recording. Live stream is being published normally, but recording suddenly stops without triggering onStatus event.would appreciate any help

Are there any major FMS or general Actionscript devs in general that specialize in Architecture and ServerSide code that blog / tweet?I  know John Nack blogs, but he's a photoshop guy.

How to retrieve fms bandwidth into flex?

Hi    I am using the EdgeCast Flash Media Server to play streaming video. In my office most of the time I am getting the message NetConnection.Connect.Close and video stop working but same time I can play the other streaming video like mtv.com jaman and other Flash media server files I can play on their site. When I am not able to play video due to NetConnection.Connect.Close, at the same time my friends can play video from outside my office premises and reigion.This problem I am facing in begining of the video as well as in the middle of the video also.Our office Network administrator has not found even a single problem in network so not able to diagnos the problem.It would be better if you can send me the reason why NetConnection.Connect.Close happening in the middle of the video along with your suggession.I am using the single parameter in NetConnection.Connect("Conn Url");Please suggess me what I have to do.Thanks & regardsSunil Kumar

I am making a video chat application. when i start the application it running fine but after some time like 30-45 it creating some problem,like i have a volume controller in it , after some time when i use that volume controller for setting volume it is not doing changes in volume.But at initial stage all the functioanlity worked fine.

This Adobe article on server side data injection says you can inject commands into your live data stream:http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/metadata_video_streaming_03.htmlThis works.  I do it. If I archive that live stream, and play it back later, will the embedded commands play again too? My thought is I'd like to do the following:1.  Have a live event where viewers see slide show advances and screen layout changes2.  Later have the archive play back like the original viewing, with slide show advances and screen layout changes.Would require I archive at FMS.  But I'm streaming h.264 from a hardware encoder and most articles on FMS recording seem to want me to create special publishing code.  Any thoughts on how to make all of this happen?Thanks

can any one help me with the flex code to stream video files(from webcam) to flash media server ?

Hi,I have FLV files streaming fine from the media folder in the applications folder.I want to split up the videos into folders to make them more manageable.If I create another folder in the applications folder at the same level as the media folder and put a video in there the video does not play.What do I need to do?cheers

I have successfully been able to write some client-side ActionScript that allows me to record my webcam and mic data to my FMS server.  The .flv files get saved to a directory under the applications directory.  However, I need to process those flv files for a web application and would like those .flv files to be saved to the web app's directory (outside of the FMS application directory).  I have tried changing the <Streams> tag in the Application.xml file that I placed in the FMS application directory, but that simply did not work.My goal is simple:  to save the recorded stream data outside of the FMS application's directory.  I have been going crazy trying to do this, but would like to know any pointers that any of you experts have.  Can this be done?  If not, how can I execute a server side PHP script after the stream is done recording.  I know about using the exec() function in PHP, but am unsure as to how to execute that script via clie

Hi,   I learned from some previous post that the default encoding format used when you publish the camera from a Flash player is Soreson. I'm wondering whether it is possible to select to use other codec such as VP2 or H.264? Thanks.Weikai.

Hi All,I am using SMIL file for managing f4v files:<smil>    <head>        <meta base="rtmp:/vod/" />    </head>    <body> <switch>  <video src="mp4:intro_300.f4v" system-bitrate="300000"/>  <video src="mp4:intro_500.f4v" system-bitrate="500000"/>  <video src="mp4:intro_700.f4v" system-bitrate="700000"/>  <video src="mp4:intro_1000.f4v" system-bitrate="1000000"/>  <video src="mp4:intro_1500.f4v" system-bitrate="1500000"/>        </switch>    </body></smil>It works fine, as long as I keep all f4v files under vod/media/ default folder. I need to organize somehow a structure of my media as it is over 400 files. How can i do this? I tried:1) creating directories under vod, i.e. vod/test1 with  <meta base="rtmp:/vod/test1/" /> and placing f4v fi

How do I restart FMS under unix? I tried./fmsmgr server restartbut it returnsServer:restart command:Server service restart not found. Exiting.If i type ./fmsmgr serverit returnsServer:fms command:NPTL 2.5Usage: ./server {start|stop|restart}so, the syntax is right, but it cannot find restart command. What am I missing here?Thanks!

Hi All,I need to change the default location of VOD media files from /opt/adobe/fms/applications/vod/media.what I did:1. Created a dir test under default "media" dir2. Placed my f4v files inside "test" dir3. Modified applications.xml as follows:<Application><StreamManager><VirtualDirectory>      <!-- Specifies application specific virtual directory mapping for recorded streams.   --><Streams>/;${VOD_COMMON_DIR}</Streams><Streams>/;${VOD_DIR}</Streams><Streams>/;<FMS Installed Directory>\applications\vod\media\test</Streams></VirtualDirectory>4. Used the following smil file<smil>    <head>        <meta base="rtmp:/vod/" />    </head>    <body> <switch>  <video src="mp4:file_1_300.f4v" system-bitrate="300000"/>  <video src="mp4:file_1_500.f4v" system

Hi All,I need to edit application.xml to change VOD media location. I have the following files:./opt/adobe/fms/conf/_defaultRoot_/_defaultVHost_/Application.xml./opt/adobe/fms/applications/vod/Application.xml./opt/adobe/fms/applications/live/Application.xml./opt/adobe/fms/samples/applications/vod/Application.xml./opt/adobe/fms/samples/applications/live/Application.xmlWhich one should I edit? The 1st or 2nd?Thanks

I see FMS has the ability to record live streams.  I've done it and it works nicely.Ideally I'd like people to watch my event live AND archive it while they watch.  Is that possible?

Totally stumped!I have an application that was running at influxis, no problem. The server side script performs an XML sendAndLoad, and then calls the client based upon the xml response.But then i installed my main.asc file into a different dev environment and the xml.sendAndLoad request totally fails. Using onHTTPStatus, I discovered that the error type is <100, with an error code of 0. According to Adobe, a 0 indicates that things were fine.I then implemented the onData method as shown in the adobe docs, and 'src' is coming back as undefined.The network engineer has confirmed that there are no network/firewall issues that would impact FMS talking to our application server, so FMS and the app server are free and clear to communicate with each other. Is there some sort of other setting that needs to happen to allow FMS to send and receive data? Is there something else I'm missing here?m.onData = function(src) { trace(">> " + this.httpStatusType + ": " + this.httpStatus); if

I have a basic video on demand app running on Flash Media Interactive 3.5.  I've noticed that in our flowplayer page, in order to view the contents I have to set the netconnectionurl to be the address to the app, and then the file name url needs to contain the rest of the path.For Example:NetConnectionURL: rtmp://myserver.edu/appname/Url: path/to/file/many/folders/deep/video.mp4However - I have accessed the same file from a different server using the following:NetConnectionURL: rtmp://myserver.edu/appname/path/to/file/many/folders/deep/Url: video.mp4Does anyone know what type of VOD application or settings need to be configure to allow the later example to work?

I have an actionscript for Flash to record a webcam stream and copy it locally to my Flash Media Server. No big deal there. It is exactly what I need. Now here is the problem. recordBTN is a movie clip  in my library that controls the start and the stop of the recording. It's just one movieclip. On frame 1 there is a label marked startRec (Hence the code in the actionscript below). When you click startRec it begins recording the stream and the movie clip goes to frame 10 marked stopRec (Again, hence the code in the actionscript). The movie doesn't stop recording automatically however. The button just changes the text from Start Recording to Stop Recording. Here's the question. What EXACTLY do I do to add a countdown timer so people can see how much time they have left and have this recording stop automatically once the countdown clock reaches 0 in case they don't hit the stop recording? Below is the actionscript. The correct winner will get an iPad. Not really. But you will get a

Hello new hereI need help to set up vod media server for my website..Could you please help me?Thank You

ok, so i set FMS running fine. I have even enabled TCP port forward, not that i need it localy.the thing is, from other machines the FMS wont answer. FME is going rmtp://192.168.1.100/live/livestreamFMS is in 192.168.1.100 (same machine)if i go from another lan machine, it simply wont connect.. nor does Access.log relates to anything trying to connect to it. (from other machine, from same machine everything goes smooth)