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Bonifars
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May 8, 2006
Question

how to use flv format

  • May 8, 2006
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Hi all,

I'm trying to create an audio/video streaming application. The thing is i need to capture video streams from my camera and send it across to 100s of students. I may also store this stream for offline viewing. I remember having done it a few years back using JMF and mpg/mpeg2 formats but the performance was really bad and i had to scrap my work. I was wondering if using FLV format could improve the performance. I do understand that using FLV format, i will have to have a flash based client as well. Having said all this, i'm ready to re-write my whole application. Can somebody help please?

I'm open to any suggestions/corrections.

Thanks in advance.
Bonifars
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    Anonymous
    May 8, 2006
    Good Luck! I followed Dan Carr's excellent tutorial on using the spokesman with FLV. It worked beautifully on my desktop pc and my test server, but when I uploaded it to my ISP running Windows NET Server 2003, the SWF plays but not the progressive download FLV. As a matter of fact, the FLV is missing right out of the SWF as if it wasn't even there. I checked my web root file and there they are sitting side by side each other. Any one have any ideas or experience the same problem?

    najrellim@gmail.com
    BonifarsAuthor
    Participant
    May 9, 2006
    most probably your ISP doesnot have proper mime-type set for SWF/FLV. search on adobe forums itself. I remember having read this very recently in flash media server forum.
    Anonymous
    May 9, 2006


    10-4 on that, Bonifars! Dan Carr told me the same thing recently by email. I ran that by my ISP and at first they blamed Microsoft. After more-than-gentle urging, the techies at the ISP checked and found out that their Windows sites did not in fact have the new MIME type added. They then told me that they had updated the MIME type, but it still doesn't work correctly. Now it starts to play the FLV but freezes, making it look like a still image. Anyone run into that problem? Thanks Very Much Again, Bonifars!
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