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KenoICON
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February 4, 2008
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FMIS and FMSS differences?

  • February 4, 2008
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Hi:

I found the product information between FMIS and FMSS very confusing--really lacking. The Developer download cannot help me understand the difference!

Basically, I would like to know if I can write any Server Side Scripts (.AS), for example, calling a database and getting more information about the users before streaming media files to them, in FMSS? Or is FMIS the only way to go?

Ken
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    Graeme Bull
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    Graeme BullCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 7, 2008
    I'm not sure how sneaky it is that they didn't add coding on the SS for the FMSS version, but you're right in that it may not be quite obvious that you can't code there. I suppose asking on a forum is the next best bet and the answer has been posted on this forum alone at least 3 times (I know that because I answered those ones). So if that is this case, it does seem rather obvious that it's not the first thing that jumps out on the product page. I think it should be made a bit more obvious too.

    As for the docs, it's to each his own. I've never really had a problem with them and always found the answer I wanted. I guess now I'm so used to them that I don't think twice on what certain things mean. Perhaps if I could look at it from a point of view of just getting into this again I may think different. But I can also say that a lot of people have put praise on the docs as well written.
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    Dr__Dave
    Participating Frequently
    February 7, 2008
    Exactly. Why should a developer have to hunt out the answer to a question they don't know to ask? I was actually going to recommend that our company buy the Streaming server because of the way the code I wrote is working on the dev box- but I accidentally found this thread and that limitation. Not good.

    And as far as the docs go- last night our code architect had to actually step through the sealed box that is one of your components(don't ask me how) to figure out why I was able to play h.264 files and unable to play FLV with the same exact code from the docs. Apparently there is a special parameter one must pass with FLV- which is not documented. Not Good.

    Point being- avoid superlatives and large britches.
    Graeme Bull
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    Graeme BullCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 4, 2008
    The documentation for FMIS is great, it has been since version 1. That's actually the one area that has been consistenly praised.

    What page are you looking at that isn't helping you understand the difference? You'd have to be looking at the index page of the FMS product page to get that impression, anymore looking around and the differences would be obvious. Here's a good example of that:

    http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediainteractive/features/

    http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediastreaming/features/

    and of course the link on the left "Compare Editions", this is a good page to look at:

    http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/compare/

    Hope that helps.
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    tadmazik
    Participant
    February 6, 2008
    I disagree. The frontpage of the FMS website needs to say what the live and vod stream readme's say:

    Flash Media Streaming Server only
    runs Adobe-built applications, also called "signed" applications.
    Flash Media Interactive Server and Flash Media Development Server support unsigned (user-created)
    applications. If you're using one of these server editions, you can modify the live service
    source code to create your own applications.
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    tadmazik
    Participant
    February 4, 2008
    To run your own applications with any kind of code (.asc), you need the interactive version. It sucks, it's not documented well at all. The streaming version only allows you to run their prebuilt and signed "live" and "vod" applications. Your own code will not run at all.
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    Anonymous
    February 6, 2008
    Graeme- I disagree with you. The documentation is dismal. For someone doing their first project on FMS 3, the amount of digging for information and hacking I had to do to get my own code to work is shameful. With every install of Win Server 2k and up, there has been a streaming service available for free that load balances and bandwidth checks and supports multiple connections with encrypted connections and is completely documented- yes, even the callbacks. MS trounces FMS in this regard. That leaves us with the thing that FMS can do- platform neutrality.

    On to the comparison page: Multi-way applications. Umm, what is that type of thing? That is not mentioned again on the overview pages.

    And that sneaky little bit about not being able to write custom code with FMSS- that's a little too devious, even for me. A developer wouldn't know about that using the free version, since it can do both, unless they really read between the lines.
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