A newbie Flash application streaming question...

FMS keeps logs for each application instance. Look in your FMS install dir>logs directory You'll see a directory for each vhost (or just the default vhost if you haven't added any). In the vhost directory, look in the applications directory. You'll find logs for each application there.

There's also an access log in .flv format in the FMS install dir>applications>admin>streams>_definst_ directory. I've never used the .flv log for anything, so I don't have any pointers there.

I prefer to do my own stats tracking using AMFPHP and a database. Part of the reason for that is because I spend a lot of time working with FCS 1.5, which has very little to offer in the way of logs.

1. How will I "publish" SWF module containing video using FVS2?

The video does not go inside the swf. The swf communicates with the FMS and
receives a fully seekable stream which is a FLV file.

See also http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_download.html

2. Is it required to build a Flash application for the use with FVS2 (in
terms
of bitrate, audience, etc.)? Do I need to talk to the vendor who's
developing
it?
A Flash movie is required for the FMS server.

The bitrate as such is done when you encode the digital movie file to the
FLV file format. Flash 8 has a decent encoder and there are more robust
third party encoders. See
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_live.html

3. Is there any good reference or study material (tutorial(s), books, etc.)
out there regarding this?
http://flashcomguru.com/console/index.cfm
Although written for FCS, this is still the staple to have if you need to
develop in FMS.
http://www.flash-communications.net/

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Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
"Iluzia" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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Hi Folks,

I work for the organization with the Windows Media Server in place, which I
administer. I was hoping there would be some level of similarity in terms of
workflow between Windows Media and Flash Video 2 servers, but after
installing
FVS2 I learned that it's a much more complex tool...

Here is my situation: My organization's external vendor is going to deliver
an
interactive Flash module containing a video clip. Total running time of the
clip is about 20 minutes, so the SWF file is quite big. A group email with a
link to the intranet web page containing this module is going to be sent out
to
the audience of about 300 people. It's obvious that this content has to be
streamed instead of pushed and here comes my headache... Being in the
windows
media world, I'd create a clip with certain bitrate, publish it on the
server,
set the limits in terms of viewers or bandwidth, or use multicast for
unlimited
audience and that's it...

What am I suppose to do in case of Flash? I browsed through the thick
manual
supplied with FVS2, but didn't find answers to the following questions:

1. How will I "publish" SWF module containing video using FVS2?
2. Is it required to build a Flash application for the use with FVS2 (in
terms
of bitrate, audience, etc.)? Do I need to talk to the vendor who's
developing
it?
3. Is there any good reference or study material (tutorial(s), books, etc.)
out there regarding this?

I know my question is quite broad but I'm looking for something to start
working with...

I'm quite a strong user of Flash including ActionScript so I'm not afraid
of
going deeper to the technical level...

Thanks a lot in advance

Brani