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joengelhart
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February 9, 2012
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Flash Media server is streaming oddly

  • February 9, 2012
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Hello all, I have been struggling with this for days and i figure now is the time to seek some different help.

I have a windows server box 2008 R2 with Adobe Flash Media Server installed on it version 4.5. I have installed Flash Media Server and input the serial and all that fun stuff. All ports have been forwarded properly, Once the server is up and running I go to the admin console just to make sure all is running well. Once up and running I turn to my Media Encoder and enter my FMS URL as well as the stream, (livestream?adbe-live-event=liveevent). I select my input device and it connects and says streaming to primary. Now Yesterday I did this and it was streaming correctly i check with my ipad and the livepkgr was working, I have live video on my ipad. I then went to my website to check and make sure all was working on there and sure enough my live event was being streamed to there was well! Sweet right? No wrong....The server was shut down after this test trial assuming everything was working. When I turned it on today the flash media encoder still connected and streamed right and when i check the ADMIN console it appears to be working and connected the right way, but my problem is when i go to my website i just get a black screen with nothing playing on it, and on my ipad for some reason I get the last 30 seconds of a piece of the live clip we where streaming last night and then it stops.......I have nooooo clue what is wrong and it is driving me up the wall. My hope is to be able to stream from my mac to my Media Server and then be able to embed it into my website as well as have it playable on ipad/Android (havent worked on android part yet because of this whole problem). Oh and under my server log the only detail is that it failed to record "livestream" (unknown error) didnt think this would have any sort of problem with my problem but maybe im wrong! Like I said any help would be great im at a loss and really need to get this working!

Thanks, Josh

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Adobe Employee
SE_0208
Adobe Employee
February 9, 2012

1. Lets do it stepwise - can you first delete all the existing content in your streams folder of "livepkgr", un load the application and restart the server.

2. I am assuming you are using FMLE - if yes make sure Streamn Syncronisation is on (Go to Conf folder of FMLE and open Config.xml in Notepad - check for <streamsynchronization> tag - make <enable> tag under it to True. Restart your FMLE.

3. If you are using FMLE on Windows - you need to have AAC Encoder installed so that you can stream on iPAD - right now Apple HTTP Streaming works only AAC/HE-AAC audio , if you are on MAC i.e. using FMLE on MAC then there is no issue as AAC is there by default. So please choose AAC or HE-AAC as audio

4. Once you are done with all above steps - just follow same steps which you had followed when first setting up.

I am assuming you are getting the error because old content is still present and your StreamSyncronisation is not on. Can yo try steps i suggested and see if that resolves the issue.

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joengelhartAuthor
Participant
February 9, 2012

Thanks for the response, could you be more specific with number 1. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash Media Server 4.5\applications\livepkgr\streams\_definst_\livestream is that the correct folder?

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Adobe Employee
SE_0208
Adobe Employee
February 9, 2012

Yes - that's the folder.

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