How to connect to Flash Media Server

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July 9, 2010
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I just had the Adobe Flash Media Server Demo version installed on our server, not my localhost.

I'm also using Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder for the encoding.

What I don't understand is what will the correct FMS URL be?

I currently have Red5 installed and it's working just fine and I can understand what that URL is.... I'm just not sure what the URL would be for the FMS.

I had the tech at the hosting company do the install

----------- Install Action Summary -----------

Installation directory = /opt/adobe/fms

Flash Media Server Port = 1935,80
Flash Media Admin Server Port = 1111

I have the IP address plus above, but that doesn't seem to work. What am I missing? This is a new install, do I need to set something in the admin panel?

Help would be much appreciated.

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Anonymous

The correct URL to connect to FMS would be

"rtmp://<IP>/<application_name>/<instance_name>"

If you don't provide the instance name it will use the default instance, i.e, _definst_

One important point to consider here is to connect to server from other machine your ports 1935 or 80 must not be blocked by firewall.

I may not have got your question correctly as you probably may already be knowing it. If that is the case please revert back as to what issue are you running into.

Thanks,

Abhishek

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Inspiring

Thanks so very much for your reply!

Sorry for being such a newbee at this but...

I don't quite understand what the application_name and instance_name is in:

"rtmp://<IP>/<application_name>/<instance_name>"

I had a tech from our hosting company do the install because I know so little about how to do it.

He sent the address to connect to the demo page and it successfully plays the pre-recorded videos.

I can also open the Flash Media Administration Console but I seem to be getting the wrong "Server Address" because I can't seem to get logged in.

Help and info from the hosting tech is very limited because he has no experience on how to do this.

Does any of the install info in my first post provide the needed information?

Best wishes,

A

Anonymous

So, basically you have a linux server with FMS installed at /opt/adobe/fms, under this fms directory you will see a folder applications. If you go to applications directory, you should see 2 directories named live and vod. These are both fms applications. In simple terms, vod is used for playing recorded files over rtmp and live is used for publishing and subscribing to live streams (I am trying to be highly simplistic). In case you have FMS development server or FMS Interactive edition installed, you can also build your own applications. Now you can try connecting to "rtmp://<IP>/live" and publish a live stream from your encoder. In this case your stream will be published to application live. I would suggest going through the dev_guide present under /opt/adobe/fms/documentation folder to get a better understanding of what application and instances are. Also go through tech_overview file. These should get you started on FMS.

>>I can also open the Flash Media Administration Console but I seem to be getting the wrong "Server Address" because I can't seem to get logged in.

What is the address that you have put in? Is it the address of the machine where FMS is installed? From where did you try to access Admin console, i mean the same machine where FMS is installed, if yes then try replacing IP with localhost. Also check whether FMSAdmin service is running on port 1111.

Please revert back if anything is not clear to you.

Thanks,

Abhishek

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