Can Flash Media Server be used integrate video conferencing functionality into a 3rd party sites?

Question

I'm building a website that will allow 2 different users to meet in a secure, private video conference. Wondering if our develpoers can use the Flash Media Server to integrate this functionality into our site? Here are requirements that we need to support:

Scheduled video conferences:
* User1 and User2 click "start video session" link and are put into a video conference room
* If someone who is not the user1 or user2 clicks link, throw "You don't have access to this chat" error

Other requirements:
* Secure (3rd user can't hack into video conference and listen in etc)
* Our web-app can control who can enter a session, can track sessions and know duration/users who were in the session

Thanks!!

Anonymous · Answer

On your requirement of having your web app manage access, your developers will need to program some supporting classes on the FMS side. If the web app is to maintain access control, the flow will work like this:

1. User credentials will be provided to the client side application (the .swf) either by manual entry via a form, or by runtime variables provided in the flash object embed code.

2. When the client connects to the FMS application, the credentials will be passed in the connection request

3. The FMS application will make an HTTP request of the web application server to validate the credentials.

4. The web app server will reply with a pass/fail result

5. The FMS application will accept/reject the connection accordingly.

Server side programming for FMIS (server side actionscript) is Javascript, so if your developers are already experienced with Javascript, they should have no problem getting comfortable with the FMS API.

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