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Anonymous
November 25, 2008
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Can Fash Media Server stream live IP video?

  • November 25, 2008
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Our system has about 100 live cameras (NTSC feed) coming into our data center. The NTSC feed is converted to IP using Axis Video Encoders. The Axis encoders pump out IP-based feeds in motion jpeg format. We want to move away from this format and towards streaming FLV so video will integrate into our Flash application better.

Will the latest version of the Flash Media Server software register these IP feeds and stream them in realtime, when requested from our application? We're trying to make a purchase decision and aren't sure if Adobe products will even be able to handle the IP feeds directly.

Thanks.

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    kchan666
    Participant
    July 18, 2009

    use axis video capture program to get the video then use adobe video encoder to send a video to FMS server, it work for me

    , but another problem is how to get the audio from axis ip cam , anyone know the soluction,

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    pbres
    Participant
    July 22, 2009

    hey kchan666 could you write here how you managed to configure FME and FMS ? i've got video stream from Axis cam in FME but when i'm clicking Start button there is no video transmission. In Encoding log there is no info about Video streaming.

    thanks, Pawel

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    ynotlim
    Participating Frequently
    October 23, 2009

    I heard it might be a problem with Flash Encoder 3.0, try 2.5.

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    zooboy
    Participant
    July 2, 2009

    Yes, you can, with the Axis Video Capture Driver, which makes the Axis camera appear as a connected device.  My FME 3 is freezing up when I hit Start, but it generally works.  I can see live video from the camera just fine in the input and output monitors, but the video is freezing when I try to stream to Ustream.

    http://www.axis.com/techsup/software/

    I am using the same driver with Windows Media Encoder as well.  It is working great.

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    Anonymous
    July 2, 2009

    That's really cool... I didn't know Axis had a driver for that.

    When FME isn't choking on it, how is the video performance and image quality? One woul think that there would be some latency introduced while the driver is decoding the video and FMS is re-encoding it, but it would be great to know for sure from someone who's using it.

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    Anonymous
    November 26, 2008
    No. FME is itself an encoder, and takes camera devices as an input source. If FME can see the mjpeg stream as a camera device (I suspect you'd need to develop a driver for that, but I'm not familiar with Axis so I'm not entirely sure what would be involved), then you could use FME as the publishing client.

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    Anonymous
    November 25, 2008
    No. The only way to connect to FMS and publish a stream is using an RTMP client. FMS also has no means of ingesting mjpeg data (or more to the point, no means of taking that mjpeg data and converting it into something the flashplayer can use), so it would need to be encoded to vp6, sorenson spark, or H.264 before being pushed up to FMS.
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    Anonymous
    November 25, 2008
    So, if the stream from the axis encoder was in H.264 format, then we could get multiple live streams encoded and pumped out in FLV format using FME/FMS?

    Thanks for the input.


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