Can not stream .f4v or .mp3 file from subfolder

Question

I recently installed FMS 3.5.1 and then upgraded it to 3.5.3 on a Windows 2003 server. In both versions, I can not stream .f4v or .mp3 from a subfolder. The .flv file plays fine.

I used the default configuration settings, sample .f4v and .flv files provided by the installer. I used the sample player in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash Media Server 3.5\samples\videoPlayer as the client.

Here are steps to reproduce the issue:

First I made sure the sample files can be streamed from the original folder. Both rtmp://{fms ip}/vod/mp4:sample1_500kbps.f4v and rtmp://{fms ip}/vod/sample.flv worked.
I created subfolder folder1 under C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash Media Server 3.5\applications\vod\media.
Moved those 2 sample files to folder1 subfolder
rtmp://{fms ip}/vod/folder1/mp4:sample1_500kbps.f4v did not play. The player showed error "Connection Error. Please press Play to try again."
rtmp://{fms ip}/vod/folder1/sample.flv played fine.

Asa_-_FMS · Answer

The playback component that you're using may be getting messed up attempting to do single line URI play - FMS doesn't support that natively and the components built a scheme to parse that line into two calls

It should in theory be asking for

connect(rtmp://{fms ip}/vod/folder1) and play(mp4:sample1_500kbps.f4v)

but I have a feeling it's essing up the parsing somehow. You should be able to confirm this via the FMS log lines. Check out the access.log for your FMS when you make this play attempt. You may need to turn on more logging fields to see it (you can just set the fields to * if you want them all) and then do your play. I have a feeling that the targetted app and file are getting messed up.

Asa

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