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jsawyer1996
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September 12, 2011
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A couple questions before we buy

  • September 12, 2011
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We have done several weeks of testing with WOWZA

media server for a customer.  We went that directions because we could use ir do deliver live streams to IOS devices.  Now we can do the same thing with Flash media server 4.5 and have a couple questions.

1) our data center only provides 100Mb connections.  With wowza were going to run it on 3 virtual servers with there own dedicated 100Mb connections in a origin/edge configuration.  How can this be addressed in FMS?

2) Can we record the live streams for VOD playback with FMS or do we need another version?

3) If we can record, will the server append to the file if they loose connection and connect again in the middle of a live stream?

4) Is there a trial version of FMS?

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    Anonymous
    September 12, 2011

    1. You'd install FMS on each of the virtual servers, configure your edges accordingly, and bind each to a unique IP address. I'd confirm this against the new licensing model for FMS 4.5, but I'm fairly certain you'll need to license each FMS separately (one license per VM)

    2. You'll need interactive server or enterprise server. Streaming server doesn't support recording.

    3. Depending on your application and client configuration, it is possible to append to the existing recording.

    4. The developer version of FMS is free, and behaves the same as interactive server (connection limits are imposed, but otherwise the dev version is the same as the interactive version). See the product page for download details.

    *Edit*

    Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure how you'd set up an edge configuration for IOS delivery. There isn't a lot of info in the docs as of yet, but FMS is using apache to deliver, so I would assume you'd need to copy the .ts files across the 3 hosts or configure the 3 apache installations to point to the same storage locations.

    Maybe someone from adobe will chime in here on the best workflow for that (if there is a built in workflow for that... you might need to packetize on each edge separately)

    Also, the download link for the developer edition seems to still be pointing to FMS 4.0 . C'mon Adobe people... help us out here.

    Nikhil_Kalyan
    Nikhil_Kalyan
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    September 18, 2011

    Hi all,

    I hope the download section problem for FMS 4.5 is resolved by now

    The legacy edge-origin configuration is for RTMP and not for the HTTP delivery that is needed of iOS. Since its on HTTP, we expect to rely on web server caching infrastructure for various locations.

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