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Anonymous
June 23, 2009
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FMS 2.0 vs. FMSS 3.0

  • June 23, 2009
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I have an application that I support but did not create.  I need to test it on FMSS 3.0 but the developer version has both Streaming and Interactive Server enabled.  Is there any way to disable the Interactive Server in the Developer Edition so I can confirm the application works on Streaming Server without influence from Interactive Server?  The application works on the development server but when I move it to the production Streaming Server, it does not respond the same.

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    Here's a chart from the Technical Overview of the differences between FMSS and FMIS:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_TechOverview/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119ed944915-7ff3.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119ed944915-7fd8

    The main difference is that there are only 2 applications that run on FMSS: vod and live. If you look in the root_install_dir\applications folder, you'll see a "vod" folder and a "live" folder. Clients can connect only to these apps. This means you can't write server-side code. Think of FMSS as a dumb server that streams audio/video. You can create cool client-side video players, etc, but all they can do is send and receive a/v to FMSS and call getStreamLength, getPageURL, and getReferrer:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_Deving/WSAB41B451-2C14-44a9-A189-58D1F9AF043B.html

    If you want to migrate a server-side application to FMS3, you'll need FMIS.

    HTH,

    Jody

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    Anonymous
    June 23, 2009

    When you say "it does not respond the same" on your FMSS server, what exactly is happening?

    From your initial post, it sounds to me like you have some application code you need to deploy. If that's the case, you'd need FMIS.

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    Anonymous
    June 25, 2009

    We have FMS 2 installed on a system and it works on that system.  I realize this is an earlier version of FMS and that with 3.0, they changed the server and pricing. I discovered a hard coded link in the app that redirects rtmp traffic back to the FMS 2.0 server so as far as the users of the newer systems were concerned, it always worked.  That is until they started noticing others on the chat list that shouldn't be there.  I uncovered the hard link, corrected it, tested on the development FMS server (v 3.0) and everything worked well.  When I went to deploy it to a production FMS 3.0 server it didn't work.  After a little more work, I found on the Adobe site that chat only works with FMIS?

    I'm looking for suggestions at this point.

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    Anonymous
    June 25, 2009

    You read right... you can't deploy application code on FMSS..

    There are really only two suggestions that can be made... use FMIS 3.5, or roll back to FMS 2.0.

    calmchessplayer
    calmchessplayer
    Inspiring
    June 23, 2009

    There is a streaming server only version as well as interactive server version.....just download both servers and run them both in a virtual machine or on seperate computers...or uninstall and reinstall both versions....If you have any remote shared objects or calls or sends then only the interactive server will support the app.

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    Anonymous
    June 23, 2009

    Thanks for the quick reply.  I'm not sure I follow though.  I downloaded and installed what I thought was the only download for FMS.  I just checked and don't see any options on the download page to download just the Streaming Server.  It sounds like what I need but I don't see where to get it.

    Thanks again.

    calmchessplayer
    calmchessplayer
    Inspiring
    June 23, 2009

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

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