Media Server (read-only)

Hi Guys and Gals, Is it possible with FMS to simulate a live stream using an OD file. i.e. Can you start an OD file streaming at a specific point (say 10am), then when someone tries to connect to it (say 10:20am), it plays as if they missed the first 20 minutes. An ideal situation would be without using the FM Encoder and not passing in parameters to the file. tia, T

Hello! Have installed FMS 2.0 on windows. I now want to load some flv files that I want to stream via rtmp:// How do I go about doing this? Where should I place the flv files? What would my path in rtmp://path be? I want to embed the video in a html page and stream as rtmp. Thanks!!

I work for a broadcasting company and we do live telecast of various events, mostly related to professional sports. We currently have a Windows Media Encoder 9 setup with Windows Media Server, etc. I have a custom written application that archives all of our broadcasts. This was accomplished with the M$ media SDKs. Archival means we record each one of our daily live feeds for review and archival purposes (game footage for coaches, stuff like that). We are currently looking at h.264 capable setups, or something equivalent. We have been playing around with Adobe's encoders, media server, and all that. We are impressed with the quality. Switching to this right now has some logistical complications, mostly related to an operational requirement based on our current business model. Simply switching to h.264 overnight isn't going to be possible; we will need to prepare. So, with that in mind, I have a question relative to SDKs and Flash. My current application (the archiver) can archive up

Hello, I am currently developping a program for my company, using flash media server. I managed to get most basics by myself, but there is a problem I don' know how to take care off. In the application we are developping, there are two different swf files : one for admins, and one for users. Those two swf connect to the same instance of the program. The idea is that the admin is the master of a 30-people video chat room (a "room" corresponding to an instance). The behavior we would like to reach is the following : - When a user connects throught the "admin" swf, it should create a new room (=instance) moderated by this user. - When a user connects throught the "user" swf, it should connect as user to the room (=instance) with the least people in it. I don't really know I should code this, I thought some solutions already, but all of them have problems and are not really satisfying (such as connecting succescively to all rooms). I was wondering how I could get information about the

Hello, I would please like to know the following: 1) Can FMS be used for progressive downloading? 2) Is limelight Networks just like flash media server in terms that you save the data on their server not yours? 3) is FMS (in theory) the same as windows server? Tanks for you time and contribution! =D

Hello, I'm currently developing live broadcasting with chat application with FMS and FME. And I will have 100Mbps full pipe with a brand new Dell edge server and I came up with one question. I will allow users to see the video at 500Kbps for each user. And my server's pipe is 100Mbps. Let's say that the server handles 1000 users at same time, then do I need 500Mbps of pipe? Is this right calculation or it can handles more than 200 users with 100Mbps (Provide 500Kbps each user)? Please someone advise. Thank you.

Hi, I am trying to calculate the number of users, for a one to many, video on demand application. I have 300 videos on the server. 80000Mb (Bandwidth) = No. of users * 400kbs (encoded video) Therefore: No. of users = 200. If this is correct, does this mean that only 200 users can view the same one video simultaneously ? Or is it that only 200 users can view my videos (all different videos) at any one time and no more users can watch a video ? For example, can say 300 users, view the 300 videos, each viewing a different video but all at the same time ? Or say can 600 users view the 300 videos, of which, 2 users each, view the same video simultaneously? Thanks, Paul

As title. What will come out if the actual required bandwidth did exceed the setBandwidth limit? Drop frame or what? Please advise and thx.

I installed the sample applications from the FMS webpage and they work fine when I access them through my web browser on the local machine. But I can't seem to connect to the applications correctly when I use a different computer and reference the server by IP. I can access the swf file just fine, but I dont seem to be able to connect to the server. For instance the guestbook application has a Connected or "Not connected" icon in the corner and it always says "Not Connected". Or if I try the survey application, not surveys are populated in the drop down menu. LIke i said though everything works from when im on my local machine. does anyone know what the problem could be?

I am evaluating your Flash Media Server When a client connects and view the video files, the client can download and store in the client hard disk. Please tell me how to stop the client to download/store the video files?

JSP, Servlet or J2EE?

Hi there... We're attempting to integrate an A/V private message app (see it at http://www.flashcoms.com/products/site_mail/overview/) into our existing site. It's our first foray into FMS apps. Here's the problem: Recording video with no audio is fine. If you record video with audio, it hangs for a few seconds once the audio kicks in. What I mean by that is this: if you record a 20-second video, but don't start talking until 7 seconds into it, it will pause for about 5 seconds upon playback right at the mark where you start talking (in this example case, at 7 seconds into file). I've checked the flv's on the server and downloaded them to my local machine, and the pause is still there when I playback locally, meaning the problem is created when the file is being recorded. Anyone experience this before? Problem with FMS or the app itself? I don't have any other FMS apps installed - if someone could point me to a very simple webcam record/playback app I could easily install that wo

Hi, I have a few problems. Up to now we have gotten away with FLV files being progressively viewed through a webpage, since the traffic was low in the beginning. Now we have issues with buffering and delays so I'm trying out Flash Media Server 2. All I want to be able to do is place premade FLV files into the applications folder of Flash Media Server, crank up Dreamweaver CS3 create a basic page for the moment and connect to the file and stream it. I have started creating the MySQL and PHP database system for better admin in the future, but I just want to see 1 file stream successfully in a basic webpage for the moment. Using Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0 Dreamweaver looks for instance names which I'm not sure about. Is there a a step by step tutorial I can use to achieve this please? all the tutorials I have found seem to be for streaming live video, but I'm not interested in this. One tutorial mentions placing the main asc file into the applications folder also, but with m

I just got my FMS installed and have the encoder taking the stream, can see the stream through the admin panel, but I can not figure out how to view the video stream live. Do I need to define somewhere what the stream is so I can view it live or is there something I am missing?

Hi! I'm considering buying Macromedia Flash Media Server 2. This software would be a large investment for me, so I'd really appreciate any answers or advice that anyone could provide. I just have a couple questions: 1) Can FMS2 be installed on the same server that runs my Web sites? I have a Linux server that runs a few sites, and it would be ideal to run this software and the sites on the same server. I'm also wondering what port it would run on? I've used RealNetworks' Helix Server, which requires you to run it on a separate server because of port issues. I want to use Flash instead. 2) Does this software also come with a Flash video player that would work with my sites? I want to be able to stream .flv videos from my Web sites and have a Flash player launch whenever a user selects one of my videos (kind of like how RealPlayer launches when you click a RM file). This way, the player wouldn't always be embedded in the page. Is that possible? I'm worried about the player failing to l

Hello I'd like to make a voice chat software that can record all audio streams in one flv file. Is it possible with FMS 2? Thank you for the answers: Peter

i am a flex beginner, try to use flex 2.0 to develop flv player, but it seem i cannot work. pls help me see what error inside the code. --------------------------------------------------------------------VideoExample.as------------------------------------------------------------ package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.events.*; import flash.media.Video; import flash.net.NetConnection; import flash.net.NetStream; public class VideoExample extends Sprite { private var videoURL:String = "a.flv"; private var connection:NetConnection; private var stream:NetStream; NetConnection.defaultObjectEncoding = flash.net.ObjectEncoding.AMF0; // public function VideoExample() { trace("videoExample"); connection = new NetConnection(); connection.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatusHandler); connection.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, securityErrorHandler); connection.connect('rtmp://localhost/sample_room/_definst_'); trace("connec

Not sure where to start here, but am trying to set up virtual directories on Linux. I have successfully installed and run FMS on CentOS 4.5 x86_64 (which is essentially RedHat 4.5), but I can't connect to any flv files. I'm running FMS as user fms with permissions set to allow read/write access for the virtual directory which is at /var/fms but no connect. The server will connect to the application instance and check bandwidth but that's all. It hangs at that point. Any insights, friends?

This is my first attempt at working with FMS and RSO's so please bear with me! If someone could walk me through the basic steps of creating a RSO, adding a property to it and then reading that property back would be a huge first step! Using the following AS I appear to have some progress, but get "undefined" when I try to read back the property... myRtmpString is the actual connection string for my server in the code... var my_nc = new NetConnection(); my_nc.connect("rtmp://myRtmpString"); var myRemote_so = SharedObject.getRemote("userList", my_nc.uri, false); myRemote_so.connect.success(my_nc); my_nc.onStatus = function(info){ trace(info.code+" : "+info.level+" - "+info.description); } myRemote_so.setProperty("userName" , "Jeff"); userName = myRemote_so.getProperty("userName"); trace(userName); This is what I get in the output window... undefined NetConnection.Connect.Success : status - Connection succeeded. As always any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance j

is it possible for FMS to transcode from WMV on the fly? probably not by itself, but could it work with another app/server to do this? is the only option to batch transcode all existing WMV assets?

how can i have the flash media server create application instances automatically without requiring an admin connection from outside the server. as far as i understand it i can only use the admin classes from a client and all i can think of is some dirty solution using shell scripting... maybe i am just misunderstanding something here? thanks in advance for any help on this. anton

Hi, We've just bought a FMS and I've installed it on a machine running Win Server 2003 SP1. The name of the server is advancedmedia. FMS is located in D:\Flash_Media_Server2. I've updated the server to the latest version. In the application folder I've created subfolder myapp and have copied main.asc file from folder Adobe/Adobe Flash CS3/Samples/ComponentAS2/FLVPlayback/. In the subfolder myapp I've created a subfolder Stream and in it a new subfolder _definst_. I've copied a FLV called test.flv file in the subfolder _definst_. In Flash CS3 I've created a new fla file and have dragged and dropped a FLVPlayback component.. Publish setting: Flahs Player 9; ActionScript 3.0. I've set up FLVPlayback Parmeter source to: rtmp://advancedmedia/myapp/test.flv I'm getting error message: Failed to load FLV: rtmp://advancedmedia/myapp/test.flv I've found somewhere in docs that param called isLive must be set to TRUE but in the component inspector this parameter doesn't exist. I've tried to u

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am new to Flash, and I'm new to Flash Media Server. I am trying to get FMS to look at a virtual directory. I have set up this simple Application.XML file: <Application> <!-- This section contains information about configuring the script engine. --> <JSEngine> <FileObject> <VirtualDirectory>/mi05;c:\temp\</VirtualDirectory> </FileObject> </JSEngine> </Application> I have this code in the .ASC file: application.onConnect = function(user) { application.acceptConnection(user); Client.prototype.songPlay = function(songsNow, v2) { this.songStream = Stream.get("songs"); this.songStream.play("mp3:song4", 0); trace("Playing MI01"); }; Client.prototype.stopPlay = function() { this.songStream.play(false); trace("All play has stopped."); }; }; I have song4.mp3 in C:\temp. I know the code is working because I'm getting the trace messages in FMS. However, I'm not hearing anything. Wha

I had coded my SWF player to return a different error message in the event where the connection is closed or rejected (making use of the NetConnection.Connection.Closed and NetConnection.Connection.Rejected messages). As I had some problem with rejecting the users (users complaining of unabled to connect), I commented out the application.rejectConnection() portion in the onConnect method in the main.asc of my FMS. In other words, the FMS will never ever reject any connections. However, I still see the error message on my SWF file from time to time which will only appear when the connection is rejected. Any suggestion how this could happen? Thus, I was wondering if Connection.Closed error messages are a base class or something in the AS syntax.

Hello Adobe FMS dev team :) Who i must contact in the Adobe FMS dev team to indicates a whish list of all new features and fix bug i want in the next version of FMS ? For the moment for example my feature requests for FMS3 are : http://groups.google.com/group/vegasos/browse_thread/thread/45bad8e9be51d40a 1 - Use a Javascript 1.7 or 1.8 core Engine with E4X, Generator, Iterator, etc. 2 - class mapping with no anonymous class for the moment we can use class mapping only with anonyme function, i would like register a class with a namespace : {{{ namespace = {} ; namespace.myConstructor = function() { } application.registerClass( "myConstructor" , namespace.myConstructor ) ; }}} For the moment FMS send the error message : Sending error message: Error registering class: line name mismatch (myConstructor, anonymous): name mismatch (myConstructor, anonymous). 3 - class mapping with complexe ids to register the class : {{{ function MyConstructor() { } application.registerC