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yakkieh
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April 10, 2008
Question

FMSS live publishing access control

  • April 10, 2008
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Hello!

Does anyone know, if it's possible to restrict live stream publishing by any criteria with Flash Media Streaming Server and built-in live-application?

I have searched for a solution for days, and it seems that with Flash Streaming Server it's only possible to create "free-for-all everyone-can-publish-anything-thay-want without *any*, even simple, access control features" kind of service. What's the use of this product, to anybody? Who would want to host a service, where anyone can publish anything without any control?

What we're trying to accomplish is a plain-and-simple live video broadcasting server. We would send our live video feed from FME to FMSS, so that end-users can watch our broadcast from our web-pages using a video player created with Flash. This of course works really nice already, but the problem is that anyone can use our FMSS to stream their content as well, and there's no way to prevent it. Am I really the only one who's puzzled with this issue?

Thanks for your help!

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    maverick1j
    Participant
    December 5, 2008
    What a load of rubbish. So you can't restrict anyone using your bandwidth to broadcast anything. Good grief
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    Anonymous
    April 11, 2008
    FMS3 's "SWF validation" and "HTML & SWF Domain based authentication" can help to restrict the publishing only from the swf that you distribute through specified domains.

    One can choose to distribute only the subscriber swfs to the larger audience.

    However, there is no such restriction on FME's connections requests.

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    yakkiehAuthor
    Participant
    April 17, 2008
    Thank you for your help, fmslove!

    We ended up ordering a license for full-blown 'Interactive' edition and using Adobe-supplied FME authentication add-in (libaccess.dll) at adaptor level.

    Btw. Installation of the authentication add-in was kinda kludgy, I had to modify some windows registry values to fool the installer, so it could find the existing FMS (development) installation. For some reason it searched for FMS version 2.5, not 3. This was the only add-in installer I found from Adobe's site, so I guess there isn't an official one for FMS 3.0 yet, is there?

    Now I only wish I knew the crypting algorithm used for salt and hash in users.dat, so that I could integrate publishing rights management more tightly to out applicaton server.
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    Anonymous
    November 7, 2008
    Let me get this right,
    You cannot use FME Authentication with FMSS (Flash Media Streaming Server) ?
    SO anyone with FME can publish to FMSS!

    If this is true this is disgraceful!
    I've just bought a product I cannot deploy for security reasons now!
    Adobe should be totally ashamed!
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