Media Server (read-only)

Hello I am using flash 8.0 and I want to improve video quality at receiving side. Sending side action script code is : sending.fla:-- var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); nc.connect("rtmp:/server path/application1"); //we are using influxis server mycam = Camera.get(); mycam.setQuality(0, 80); mycam.setMode(320, 240, 30); send_video.smoothing = true; //send_video is video object send_video.attachVideo(mycam); var out_netstream:NetStream = new NetStream(nc); out_netstream.attachVideo(mycam); out_netstream.publish("livevideofile", "record"); and recieving side code is : recieving.fla:-- var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection(); nc.connect("rtmp:/server path/application1"); var in_netstream = new NetStream(nc); rcv_video._width=640; // rce_video is video object rcv_video._height=480; rcv_video.smoothing = true; in_netstream.play("livevideofile"); rcv_video.attachVideo(in_netstream); receiving video seems to be pixellised. So any body has experience of streaming video at

I am haveing trouble being able to view my .flv files once I get them on the web. I am using Flash Pro 8's FLVPlayback and have no problems with the video when I have the files contentPath located on my computer. I have placed the .flv along with the .swf for it on my webserver. From there I have changed the contentPath for the videos to the http address the .flvs are located. So the website .swf works fine but the videos don't show. Note: When I have the contentPath of the .flv files on my computer, flash can find them. When I change the content path the URL location it says that it cannot find them. Why is this? Is this the problem? Am I missing something when uploading the files or with a script I should be using? I just got Flash Pro 8 and don't know much about the video side. Done research on this and it seems like I am doing things right. Any help or iinformation will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much. Luke

Hi, I want to test my sample FMS application on my website, is there any free FMS hosting available to test? please suggest. Thanks and Regards, Dhana../

Hi, I need to get the most popular videos hosted on the FMS. How can I get that. Also I want to get at any time the stats for the viewer ship for all the videos being played from FMS at a time. Also if possible the cumulative bandwidth for all the users connected to a particular video. I know there are Server side management APIs like getNetStreamStats/getRecordedStreams(it gives the name of the video file and client no) and the getUserstats to get the bytes. But if I have 5000 session at all times and I need these stats every one minute how can I get these stats. Thanks in Advance.

Hello, I'm trying to create file with an .avi in a flash file. I did (in Flash Prof. 😎 File, Import, Import video. Selected .avi file on my hard drive and Progressive download from a web server, endoded with Flash 8 - Medium Quality (400kbps), choose skin, then finish video import. I published, then upload to my server the .avi, .swf, and htm files. When I view, I don't see anything (in test movie as well). I think I am leaving out a big step. Please help. Here is the file: http://www.ewebsites.ws/model-01.html Thanks in advance. MonaE

Right now I have a chat application built using FMS. My SSAS is logging in and tracking connected users. The client has now requested for there to be an indicator on their webpage informing viewers how many people are currently logged into the chat. Basically I just need to make a little widget that makes a single call to the application and get a return value, the old fashioned request/response way -- essentially like remoting. I could always just connect and then disconnect as soon as I get a response, but I'd like to know if there's a better way of doing this. Thanks.

Which video codec does the FMS2.0.4 use when recording a live video? Is it ‘Spark codec’ by Sorenson or VP6 codec by On2?

Can anybody help me with setting up FMS on a remote server that runs linux?

Good Afternoon, I am currently using FMS to run a web application is on server 2.2.2.1 and Flash Media Server is 2.2.2.4. Now I can either install the web app on the same server as FMS or vice versa. The problem is what if that is not an option, How do I get FMS to communicate with my web server to successfully run the application.

Hi, I am currently creating a chat solution that is only consisting of private chats, there is no need for a lobby, the clients should connect to the server, pass on the id of the person they want to connect to, and a SSAS should pass on the messages to the right client. Am not sure how to resolve this, I think a remotly dshared object might do the trick, but would ask for a short hint in which diredtion I should continue to find an answer cheers

I'm trying to make a lobby that initializes other FMS applications. Here's the situation: Media Server Side -onAppStart()- 1) Read an XML file from a remote server 2) Parse out application URLs (i.e. <applicationURL>rtmp://localhost/application_name/room_number</applicationURL> 3) Attempt to connect to the URL on the server side (nc.connect(applicationURL)) 4) If this returns NetConnection.Connect.Success, add to the shared object ROOMS_SO.setProperty(room_number, applicationURL) - this is happening in nc.onStatus() Client Side -ROOMS_SO.onSync()- 1) dataGrid_mc.removeAll(); 2) for(i in list) {dataGrid_mc.addItem(list );} The Problem: This works fine when users connect and disconnect, but as soon as more than one user is connected, the ROOMS_SO.onSync() method is called over-and-over-and-over... which means my dataGrid_mc object is being refreshed infinitely. The only way I can stop it is to disconnect all users but one. Any thoughts? I have a users_so object updating

The problem that we encountered is that when we play live streams from flash media server , the flash player process in task manager start getting bigger .. so after 1/2 h .. it already reaches 2GB memory ... thats kind of frustrating. The live stream that comes to the client is composed on the server on many stream .. when one flv file is done ...another begin..when the last one is done..the first one begins , so the client sees a live endless stream . The application is here http://www.mycinemasite.com , its an online cinema. We need this problem solved asap , so if anyone can help it would be great. Thanks in advance , Adrian

I need to set up application directory in NAS or Network Shared Folder. How can I do that ? In the fms.ini file. VHOST.APPSDIR = z:\myapps => z:\ is shared folder then, Application directory does not exist : z:\myapps please, I want to fix the problem.. bye.

my code is simple : application.onAppStart =function (){ trace("onAppStart") } I don't understand when it trace, it did it for a few times and now it doesn't. any idea? thanks

I seem to be having trouble with what should be simple remote AS calls. Nothing I've tried has worked and I've followed the models provided in the Adobe documentation. My server script consists of this: application.onConnect (client, other params) { ... client.FunctionName = function () { trace ("This should be working"); } ... } My client side is this: ncObject.call("FunctionName",null); Anyone else had similar problems or see something dumb I'm missing?

Hi All, I need help on the following topic of FMS 2.0. On FMS Server I want to trap the duplicate logging, Logoff Old One and accept New Instance. The scenario is like this, if a user logged in with the name “ wins” on FMS Application from his Office, after some time he came to his home and want to logging again. I want to disconnect or logoff the instance of application which is logged in from his Office and allow him to logging from his home. Actually I want to implement the functionality like Yahoo messenger. Yahoo messenger gives the facility to login from another system and logoff the previous instance. So, tell me what I have to do to achieve this. Thanks

We have our own FMS and I have just installed the FME on a workstation. FME reads video perfect but when I try to connect to the server it won't accept my username and password. Where do I set this? I have installed the add-in for FMS and also upgraded to the latest 2.0.7 release. I'm green to the Flash Media Services so this may come as a dumb question. Please help!

Hello, I have custom made flash video player, witch pays (.flv)s. I want to make something like trial of flash video clip. I have flash video clip (.flv) with time length of 30 sec. I want to buffer only to 10 sec. and whe 10th sec. is reatch to stop. So in my buffer memory will have only 1/3 of this (.flv). Is it possible to make? How? P.S. sorry for my English isn't very good.

My company uses broadcasts which include both streams (coming from different users and sometimes displayed together), animations amd images mixed together on the flash player. You can think of it as kind of flash presentation mixed with web meeting. We would like to record the broadcast into a single video file (flv, quicktime, etc.) and streaming this file on demand from our FMS. I am looking for a way to record what the broadcastig viewer sees when he looks at the boradcast.

Hi *, we are seriously considering to purchase FMS for a customer application, but we need to know if it is possible to stream in broadcast FLV videos that are stored on the server (building a playlist). Reading about the FMS features i found a lot of examples of _live_ video streaming, handled by using a "camera" object etc. (you surely know better than me what i'm talking about). But i didn't find any example of broadcast streaming of a flv video file _not_ live. Has anybody already done this with FMS? Thanks!

FMS is installed. I have my .flv file under my directory for the application. Trying to use the FLVPlayback in Flash 8 to call it using rtmp://myserver/myapp/_definst_/myvideo.flv. Publish and it just brings up a blank screen. never plays. I know the .flv file works ok. I can see it connecting to the FMS so I know that is working ok. My application does use UC/LC combination and i read something that says it might be a problem. Any help??? I have the main.asc file from the Flash8 components sample (although that does say it is for the old 1.5 server).

Hello. Here is described how to use different codecs for different clients (Sorenson Spark for Flash Player 7- and On2 VP6 for Flash Player 8+). http://livedocs.adobe.com/fms/2/docs/00000081.html But as I can see, it is only suitable for recorded .flv files. Is there any possibilities to customize stream delivery or live streams? Can FMS2 transcode streams on the fly? Thank you.

Hi, we are evaluating the use of Flash Media Server for "remote learning" application. Video quality and delay are of course crucial. We are testing the use of the ON2 Flix Live package for VP6 streaming with standard Flash player (as viewer). The video quality looks good until you start to scale the video... the original video size is 352x288 (with streaming bitrate of about 128Kbps). The minute I scale the video window to around 600x490 the video quality become really bad.. (anti-aliasing issues..) I try to scale the video in 2 ways: either enlarge the size specified in the HTML without changing the video window size in the SWF file. Or change also the size of the video window in the SWF file.. both result with poor scaling quality.. The same PC shows great video scaling with other proprietary video applications.. so its now an issue with this PC configuration. I am looking for ways to improve this video scaling issue... Please advice. Regards, Ziv.

We're running a stream of a collection of videos that my company has produced on our site. With Windows Media Services, it allows us to do what's called a "Simulated Live Broadcast" where we give it a list of video files, and it plays them in order (like a playlist). The real benefit with it is that the video files are "always playing" even when no one is connected to the server, sort of like on television. So, if I logon at 10:00, i see the beginning of video 1, and if you logon at 10:05, you will be seeing the same video that i am seeing, just 5 minutes into it. Sorry for the longwinded description, just think of it as a television station that is constantly broadcasting content. Anyway, we want to move over to FMS, and we were wondering if FMS would support something like this? Thanks in advance for your help! -Ian

I have setup my server using default values. I use the free developer editon. I'm have tried sample applications from de adobe site(broadcaster and sample_videoconferance) and I keep getting: NetConnection.Connect.Rejected in de fm2_console i keep seeing things like: conneted:0 , connects: 5 , disconnection 5: -I have no (windows)firewall - I created empty directies in de application folder with the correced names -used localhost, LAN adress, 127.0.0.1 , rtmp,rtmpt all nothing. Red5 works fine btw ( i don't have it running right now)