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November 29, 2007
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how to use media server

  • November 29, 2007
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We have a number of flvs that have given us trouble and from what everyone has told me, it's due to the fact that we're using progressive download. I downloaded and installed the developer's media server to try and test these files to make sure it would fix it. But, now that it's installed, I'm not sure what the next step would be. I've looked around adobe's site trying to find docs on how to use the media server but so far I haven't been able to find any. Can someone point me toward documentation on how to use it to stream flvs so I can test our configuration? Thanks.
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    vtxr1300Author
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    November 29, 2007
    I found a tutorial here http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/code_samples.html on how to stream video but it doesn't include the client portion. And, I've followed everything to a t but it isn't playing the video. I've gone through the admin section and it doesn't look like it's streaming the video. In the tutorial, it sets a variable for the name of the video file to "video_tutorial_1_modem". I've tried following that with an .flv and moving the flvs out of the stream folder into the main video_tutorial application folder but no luck. This tutorial was for communication server mx so I don't know if something may have changed since that version. Anyone have any ideas I can try? Thanks.
    vtxr1300Author
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    November 29, 2007
    After reading through some of the included pdfs, I'm still unclear on how to actually set things up for streaming flvs. I understand that I need to have a net connection object in my client swf. But I'm not clear on what I need to have in the server's application swf to receive the request for the flv and how to start streaming the flv back to the client. Does anyone have some simplified code that does this that I could look at? Thanks very much!
    vtxr1300Author
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    November 29, 2007
    Nevermind... I don't know why I didn't think to check the installation directory for docs.