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January 16, 2011
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Capturing live video Tutorial

  • January 16, 2011
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I found the article titled 'Capturing live video' quite useful. This article is linked off the FMS start web page - the one that opens immediately after installing.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_Deving/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0773d56e-7ff0.html#ach-setscr

The tutorial is better than most that I've found because it has a simple, working example. I was able to enter the code into a frame script in Flash CS5 and I used my own FMS address to connect both to a localhost and a remote server. The sad part was that I found that I got the video and audio to round trip to and from the FMS when compiled (ctrl+enter) in the Flash CS5 program but when I try to publish this to a web page, I get audio but I can't get any video to display - neither eachoing straight from the camera or subscribing from the FMS. I've tried accessing the web page from my local file system and from a webserver. In both cases, I get audio (great news) but not video (bad news). I'm wondering why this might be. I checked warnings and errors but I'm not getting any. This solution is so simple and would pretty much solve my problems.

If anyone has made this example work from a web page and there was any trick to the matter, please let me know.

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    jelaplanAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 25, 2011

    The problem was that I needed to go into the settings and switch the video camera. I had some mysterous google cam items that were not really cameras as far as I could tell. After that, it worked. Apologies for not notifiying the forum. I thought I had responded to this post to say it was completed but apparently not.

    Known Participant
    January 24, 2011

    Is it possible to share your code with us?, so that we can check that what is going wrong.

    Thanks

    Sushil

    Graeme Bull
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 21, 2011

    The only thing I can think of is that the SWF is too small. Are you getting the security panel popping up to "allow camera and mic"?