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April 15, 2009
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Basic questions on VOD

  • April 15, 2009
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Hi Everybody,

I have a continuous video of a finish line of a race, let’s said a 1.5hrs video, also I have a device that provides me the exact time when the athlete crosses the finish line. I want to make a web page where the participants of the event are able to watch its own video (this is a segment of the whole video).

I have been reading about Flash Media Interactive Server, Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Encoding Server and do not have idea of which version will I need. Also I read about the NetStream.play() method, but I want to know how it will work. Suppose that I want to show a segment that begins 360 seconds from the beginning. And the clip should last 1 minute.

Thanks in advance

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    Anonymous
    April 20, 2009

    If you just want to stream a video to many client video players, you can use Flash Media Streaming Server.

    You'd put your video in the {root}/applications/vod/media folder on the server.

    You would pass values to the name, start, len, and reset parameters of the NetStream.play() method:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/net/NetStream.html#play()

    name is the name of the video. start is the time at which play starts, len is how long to play the video.  reset determines whether to build a playlist or just play a single video.

    The name param would always be the same, you would pass a value for "start" based on the runner clicking the play button (for your example, it would be 360), len would be 60, and reset would be 1 (or true).

    HTH,

    Jody

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