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Is Adobe Media Server 5 Professional licence "per server" or "per domain"

We are builing an application for client where they can schedule a live stream on their website.They have a camera on location with a fixed IP internet connection. When a live stream is coming up the application will boot an EC2 instance from Amazon with FMS and the website will link up with it.At the moment as I understand it, my client will need to update their flash media encoder to point to the media server - note the address of the media server will change everytime it is booted.So my question. Knowing that the camera will always be accesible from its static IP, can we set the media server to go looking for that stream on XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX rather than having to set the media encoder to publish to the media server every time. This will keep it all nice and automated. I have searched everywhere but getting no where.Thanks

A couple of years back, when we started using Flash Media Server, we established a company policy of exporting all videos at 75, 150 and 400 kbps in the hopes of making sure our Flash videos were broadly accessible to users connecting at varying connection speeds.  Now that Broadband has become more commonplace in the years since, I'm wondering if anyone has a tried and true suggestion for which bit rates to make available these days to make sure users get the best experience they can. Is topping out at 400kbps too low by today's standards?  (I'm guessing it may be a bit conservative these days).Any suggestions are appreciated.Mike

Hi, we are using  Adobe Flash Media Server for a live stream. Now we want to set before an advert in this stream, which will start before the stream starts. Unfortunately, I can find nothing about it, is that possible?Many thanks for help.Walter

In planning for our system we need to know how many simultaneous individual incoming RTMP streams Adobe Media Server Standard (or Professional) can handle. For example, with all broadcasters broadcasting a single stream at 500 kbps and each with 10 viewers, how many of these broadcasters could be handled by a single server (say a Dual Processor Quad Core Xeon 5620 - 2.40GHz with 24GB RAM on a 10 Gigabit Port)? For starters, we do not need exact numbers, just a general idea. For example, would the above configuration handle somewhere around 10, 50, 100, 250, 500, or 1000+ simultaneous broadcasters at those specs?Thanks,Mark

Dear all!I use ffmepg to push a livestream to my flash media server. Then I want to catchup live stream to file. /opt/ffmpeg-1.1.1/bin/ffmpeg -i udp://238.1.1.2:1234 -filter:v yadif -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -b:a 96k -af volume=5 -b:v 1000k -c:v libx264 -preset fast -pix_fmt yuv420p -s 720x476 -r 25 -threads 0 -t 300 -f flv "rtmp://10.84.70.120/dvrcast_origin/vtv22"After, I create an application that main.asc file is: application.onConnect = function (){        name = Stream.name();        stream = Stream.get(name);        if(stream){        stream.record();        }}I can not catch live stream to file. Can you show me how to get a live stream name? Thanks!

Is there a set of compression factors in H.264 video that is necessary for VOD files to utilize the NetStream.receiveVideoFPS() client-side call to change the frame rate on the fly? I'd like to reduce playback to half (30 fps to 15fps), but I've tested a range of H.264 MP4 files as well as older Spark and VP6 files on FMS 4 without any change in frame rate on playback after calling the method. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!-Robert

Hi,The receiveVideoFps method of the NetStream worked fine untill I switched to H.264 videos. Is there any alternate or a setting that I am missing to make this method work.Note: It does STOP the stream when parameter 0 is passed!!!Thanks,Sahil.

I have a large collection of FLV video files.I can stream them perfectly via RTMP.  I converted one with the offline converter and the resulting f4f file I am able to stream but not to iOS.  I get an error on the iPhone when trying to view the video.I also tried with a FLV file saved from FME.  Again I could convert to f4f offline and stream that file but again in iOS it errors.What would the best method of delivering my FLV collection to iOS?  Do they need to be converted?  Why does the converted file not stream?Can you save local FLV files with FME and then VOD them to iOS?Pretty much the only file I've been able to stream to iOS is the sample files that come with FMS.Please help!

Hi,My company currently uses FMS 3.5 and use it quite reguraly to stream video to clients over the web. I am currently the only user with access to the root FTP for placing the video files onto the FMS. What we would like to know; Is there any easy way to for other colleagues to upload videos onto the FMS without giving them direct access. IE an upload tool that places a video onto the server.I have found a tutorial here:http://www.adobe.com/devnet/adobe-media-server/articles/video_sharing_ web_app.htmlwhich seemed to solve an issue, however it seems to require Flash Media Encoding Server, which no longer exists and we do not have.Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Regards,Martin

I have Windows Server 2003 32bit

Hi,I am currently using FMS 4.5 developer version (the version without any serial number) with Apache server. I am trying to play a HDS video, and whenever I request for multiple fragments, the server returns a SERVICE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE error in the HTTP response to one of the requests. I read the limitations of the developer version, which says that for HDS, the limitation is on the duration of the video, I hardly play it for more than 10 seconds before I get this response. Can someone please help. I am desperately in need of some information that might help me. Tried google-ing for this issue, but nothing useful came out of it.Really appreciate the help!    

Hi,I learned in document that Adobe Media Server Starter provides an SDK that lets developers write both the client-side and the server-side components of media applications to create interactive, two-way applications.Can anyone provide me the link from where I can download the sdk.Thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm Lucas. I Have learnt how to deliver a single live video stream to both Flash and iOS from this video But after that I got a problem with the ".f4m" file and ".m3u8" file (I think)  like this video below here. I don't know what happen with the server because my camera is still working perfectly. I now using Flash Media Server 4.5Does anyone know how to fix it?

Hi,I have an SSAS app to publish live streaming, you can refer here. Can I do publish multi-bitrate streaming with SSAS code over RTMP ? I read a tutorial, but it over HTTP...Mai Huy

We have AMS 5 running on an Amazon EC2 instance. We send a Live Stream from an FMLE encoder using H.264/AAC.If we do an Origin Pull from that instance running the AMS 5 and Live steam through one of our commercial CDN accounts, we can stop and re-start our Live stream without issue. It stops and re-starts as it should. When we re-connect to the AMS using FMLE, using the Origin Pull, the stream re-starts in either the OSMF or JW Player 6 in under 30 seconds.If we use that same AMS 5 on the same EC2 instance and Live stream through an Amazon Cloudfront distribution, if we stop our Live stream, when we re-start the stream it takes an unacceptably long time for the stream to refresh - if ever. Basically, after the re-start of the Live stream through FMLE, the Live stream at the player plays the first 10 or 15 seconds of the intial Live stream and then stops. If you refresh the player, it will play that same 10 or 15 seconds again - and stop again.It would seem that the AMS 5 is setup corre

Hi , I have noticed that after streaming at livepkgr aplication on Adobe Media Server, when finishing the stream if you do not delete the .stream files that are created in the liveevent folder and the streamName folders in the livestream folder there is trouble on the next streaming atempt.My question is if there is any mechanism to delete these files/folders automaticly after the end of the stream if there is such an option inside of the server's admin panel!It would be great if someone could help,because it is not the best thing to remember to delete these files every time you stop or start a new stream.And also it is even more difficult when you are away from home.Thanks in advance!

Hello, I am currently working on a video chat application with Adobe Media Server using rtmfp protocol.  I am looking for an effective way of sending messages directly to a specic peer. Please, can someone give me information in regards to this.Thank You

I am trying to stream a live video from Adobe Media Server. I am sending  a video to the server from Adobe Flash Media Encoder 3.2. On Adobe Media Server I open the sample video player (videoplayer.html) in a browser. In the STREAM URL field I put: http://localhost/hds-live/livepkgr/_definst_/ liveevent.f4m. When I click the PLAY STREAM button I get the error message: URL missing from Media tag. What do I need to do?

Hello,i have some questions on Edge/Origin with Live Streaming :1- Would live streaming content (not vod) be cached on Edges ? , so that quality of streaming will be better....2- i'm using 1 Origin server + 2 edges, i've put the following config on my edge Vhost.xml servers<CacheDir enabled="true" useAppName="true">               <Path>/cache/mydir/</Path>                                            <MaxSize>64</MaxSize>  </CacheDir>is that a good configuration for caching ?3- Actually, streaming is working when i put each edge as rtmp link on my jw player, i look forward to set up an load balancer between those 2 edges. is there an step by step guide for that ?, i have f

I am still trying to fully grasp the concepts of Adobe Media Server. What I need is way to use remote shared objects with flash. I want to be able to store data on my website's server in the form of a shared object. I want to do this because shared objects are incredibly easy to work with in flash. I have downloaded and used the demo for adobe media server and gotten it to work locally on my computer the way I want. Using localhost. My question is, how can I impliment whats on my computer to my website. How can I install adobe media server onto my web server so I can use a webpage .swf file to connect to the adobe media server and use remtote shared objects? Is this possible? Is it simpler than how I am looking at it?I need a little bit of assistance, any is much appriciated.-William

I'm currently running an FMIS 4.5 cluster and would like to add FMS nodes to the cluster. Will it be an option to use AMS Professional 5 licenses on FMS 4.5 installations?

Hey guys,Running in to a little issue. I need to make a GET request to my API to notify it that a stream is being published, but I'm having trouble geting this to work. I tried URLRequest/URLLoader, but I assume those can't be used. Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Simple Version:Can I change the URL of the TS segments delivered by the hlshttp_module in any way, or is it always relative to the requested m3u8 URL?Long Version:To try and protect my content from being accessed by third parties I want to use mod-auth-token, with a client inserted token in the request for the variant m3u8, and a server generated token in the HLS m3u8.My clients generate a token using a shared secret, and request the variant m3u8 from:https://myserver/hls-manifest/<clienttoken>/<hextime>/path/to/folder/manifest.m3u8This page is served dynamically (using php), and does not really have anything to do with FMS even though it is running in the same Apache instance. The m3u8 is generated with server tokens in the m3u8 URLs somethign like this:#EXTM3U#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=10240000,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.42001f"https://myserver/hls-vod/dc226454b9e39b9ffc44f9496505c70e/4ea6963f/path/to/folder/filename_1024k.mp4.m3u8I have installed mod-auth-toke

Hello,I have upgraded my adobe server from Flash Media Gateway (4.5) to Adobe Media Gateway (5.0).Since this upgrade, dtmf does not work the same.When using Flash Media Gateway (and Server), an incoming call or outgoing call was able to send DTMF from FMS.When using Adobe Media Gateway (and Server), only outgoing calls are able to send DTMF from FMS. Incoming calls are not able to send DTMF anymore.Here an extract of the log when failure:2013-02-28::15:48:18.365 DEBUG CALLLEG 5884 [LEG ID:4] - Read DTMF 12013-02-28::15:48:18.365 ERROR SIPLEG 5884 [LEG ID:3] - Invalid DTMF modeThis is very strange as the test protocol is exactly the same and the only change is the upgrade to Adobe Media Gateway (and Server). I did a configuration diff to see what is different.... and nothing is different except for adobe name instead of flash name.When Adobe Media Gateway starts, I have the following logs2013-02-28::15:20:45.526 DEBUG SIP 5828 DTMF Mode not set for profile sipPhone... setting it to rfc2