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FMS2noob
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April 20, 2006
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FMS2 setup question

  • April 20, 2006
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Ok, I'm an IT Director who's been slated to get FMS2 running and I have a feeling I'm going to need some development help with this. I have IIS6.0 running my site on port 81, FMS uses 1935 and tunnels over port 80. I'm just trying to get one .FLV file to play in a browser for me and, as many others concur, the documentation is pitifull. I'm trying to do this with the development license I guess. When I look I license it says "No license files discovered." so I assume I'm running Development version?

I have placed a .SWF file in my wwwroot directory and a .FLV under an application directory. I can see it in the console as Active and Loaded for about 5 minutes then it drops to 0 again until I reset the services. I'm trying to connect to the server from behind a firewall on the same subnet using rtmp://servername/appname/ but nothing happens even when the App is flagged as active.

Could anyone point me in the right direction or tell me what I need to do to get this to connect properly? I appreciate any input offered.

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    m_dugan
    Participating Frequently
    April 28, 2006
    I have moved my streams into this folder but they still do not show up in the Management Console under the streams section in my application. Will they ever show up, or only once someone is connected to one?
    Anonymous
    April 28, 2006
    The stream will show up in the admin console once someone has connected to it. There will be a separate item in the strems list for each stream (if two people connect to the stream concurrently, it will appear twice in the list)
    m_dugan
    Participating Frequently
    April 28, 2006
    Great ok, does anyone have a sample FLA or SWF I can use just to test and see if my server is configured properly. I have a few FLV's sitting in the streams directory, I just need something to play them with now.

    Also, is it completly necissary to use an SMIL file to get this to work? Can I just link directly to an rtmp://my_server/my_app/file.flv in my <object> code?
    Anonymous
    April 20, 2006
    First, your video should be here (it's not well documented, and lost of people miss this in the beginning):

    FMSInstallDir/applications/applicationName/streams/_definst_/video.flv

    FMS allows for multiple instances of an application to run from the same application directory. The video files for each instance of the application are stored in a child of the streams directory. The child will have the name of the application instance. Streams for the default instance are stored in the _definst_ child.

    If you publish video to the server (and set the stream to record) the streams directory will be created automatically. If you are uploading video to be streamed, you need to create the directory manually.

    The "no license" means you're in dev edition mode. You've got 10 connections to work with.

    Next, we'll need to cover the client side of things. It would be helpful if you post your actionscript so we can see what you're doing.
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