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September 16, 2011
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FMS 4.5 and JW Player problem

  • September 16, 2011
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We have used JW Player (latest) and FMS 3.0x for years to deliver VOD of many flv files across our site.  We recently implemented FMS 4.5 and are stuck on one pretty big issue.  When using FMS 3.0x we could use flashvars streamer/file to point to our server and flv file respectively.  With FMS 4.5 the behavior changes.  FMS 4.5 will no longer allow paths in the file falshvar.  For example:

This works in FMS 3.0

streamer=rtmp://our_fms_server.domain.com/app_name&file=my/flash/file.flv

On FMS 4.5 this will result in a spinning wheel, but the flv never plays (FMS 4.5 admin console says it is playing).  However if I move the flv path info to the streamer flashvar it works, as shown below:

streamer=rtmp://our_fms_server.domain.com/app_name/my/flash&file=file.flv

I REALLY don't want to have to edit every page on our site that plays videos this way.  Does anyone know if a setting in FMS 4.5 changed from 3.0 that would cause this?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Making a single change to FMS is greatly preferred to having to edit every instance of our JW player.

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    Nikhil_Kalyan
    Nikhil_Kalyan
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    September 18, 2011

    Hi,

    Thanks fore trying the new FMS 4.5

    I am little surprised to see this not working ! There are no changes that went in this regard in 4.5, and I do not really guess this would be changed. I have not much used JW Player, but any player should play just fine.

    I would have to give a try tomorrow, but please let us posted anything more you find. Thank you  !

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