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digipencil
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September 6, 2006
Question

FMS developed edition running on XP (need apache)

  • September 6, 2006
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Hi,
Was informed by a mod over at the flash comm forums here, that I could run the developer edition of FMS on my XP box but i've been having loads of trouble talking to it from my mac..
Do i require a web server loading to serve the media server? something like apache?
I've just tried accessing an flv in the following directory C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Media Server 2\applications\videoApp\streams\_definst_\greenScreen.flv, via an FLVPlayback component running from my mac with the contentPath of rtmp://172.16.100.138/videoApp/greenScreen.flv and it fires a 'failed to load' error when attempting to talk to the box to match source dimensions etc..
I have set the server address to the IP of the machine: 172.16.100.138 and my mac's is 172.16.100.11 (same subnet/gateway)

If anyone has any advice on how I can get talking to it i'd be really grateful.
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    digipencilAuthor
    Participant
    September 7, 2006
    Have just tried an AS ver and still nothing..
    I can't understand why this isn't working??

    I've created a video instance called 'vid'
    Dropped it on the stage and applied the following code:

    var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
    nc.connect("rtmp://172.16.100.138/videoApp");

    var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

    vid.attachVideo(ns);

    ns.play("greenScreen");

    -- I've tried running it from my mac with the above IP (my XP box's that's running the FMS), running it as 'localhost' on the XP box, varying rtmp/rtmpt and attempting to assign specifc ports via :1935, :80 etc. but I still get nothing..

    Is there a trace command I can use to track the progress of the connection attempts? or something similar?

    and there's nothing in particular that I need to do with the FMS other than assemble the files in the correct structure and fire it up?

    This should be the simplest thing in the world to do but i'm still getting nowhere.?.
    If ANYone has any ideas or advice I would be really grateful!!

    Thanks,
    Dave
    _Pez
    Inspiring
    September 8, 2006
    quote:
    Is there a trace command I can use to track the progress of the connection attempts? or something similar?


    try this:

    nc.onStatus(info){
    trace(info.code);
    }
    Anonymous
    September 6, 2006
    Sure... you can run FMS from an XP box, and you don't need an https server.

    It's funny... everyone seems to have problems with that FLVPlayer component. If it's the one that shipped with Flash 8, there's an .asc file that needs to be added to your FMS application directory. The folks at MM seem to have left that out of the documentation.

    Did you add the asc file?
    digipencilAuthor
    Participant
    September 7, 2006
    Thanks for your reply,
    Yeh, i dropped main.asc into the application directory (videoApp) but still nothing..
    Have been chatting with the guys over at flashcomguru who've been helping me out but I still can't see video.
    I first thought it was because i'm on a corporate network on which, port 1935 is closed but both 443 and 80 are open therefore it should be able to tunnel over http.
    I was originally planning on using some sample files to test it with but as i'm using the trial.. i don't have any, so i'm going to try and actionscript a stream into a regular video object and see how that works out.
    Will post back with my progress

    Thanks again
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