Questions

What the purpose behind creating smaller individual segmented stream f4f files instead of just creating a single large f4f file?If I removed the SegmentDuration and DiskManagementDuration parameters from the event.xml file so I can create a single f4f file, would there be any issues with streaming or performance?  <Event>  <EventID>cfhs</EventID>  <Recording>        <SegmentDuration>400000</SegmentDuration>    <DiskManagementDuration>3</DiskManagementDuration>  </Recording></Event>TO<Event>  <EventID>cfhs</EventID>  <Recording>          <FragmentDuration>4000</FragmentDuration>  </Recording></Event>

I am running the developer version Flash Media Server 5.0.1 (Windows) on a x64 Amazon Web Services small instance VM. The starter AMI for the server was one of the stock AMIs built by Amazon.I have a shiny new license for FMS Professional but not yet applied to FMS.I want to apply the license now and continue running as a small instance until I need more performance. Eventually I will want to gradually and periodically up-size it to increasingly larger AWS instances.Is this possible with the FMS license?Will I have any issues of invalidating the license because the underlying hardware configuration changes?What will I need to do to ensure that I can upsize the same server (not create a new one) without invalidating the FMS license?What other issues should I know about that I am too ignorant to ask?Thanks,Ken

Hi,I have downloaded AMS5 and installed as well, now I just want to know configuration setting of Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming "PHDS" from "webroot/vod" location and also want to know stream level configuration.what is jit.conf file and how does it work.ThanksRam

Is it possible to auto increment a streamname when publishing to FMS?Instead of appending to the same folder/directory of the liveevent and stream files when publishing and unpublishing, is there an option to which if a stream is unpublished and republished to starts a new folder/directory _1, _2, _3, etc?Or even better, to name the folder with a timestamp of the publish? instead of _1, _2, _3 -- _2012oct8-2101, _2012oct9-0644, _2012oct10-1833Thanks.

Hi, I use a Amazon EC2 AMS instance. The instance not work correctly.The problem is: the service AMS is running, but at some undetermined time of the day, the services stop responding to the users.AMS service never falls, PID does not change (if service is down, "Monit" restart the service and send notification). I review the log's, forums, etcs... but i not identify the problem!Any suggestion or recomendation?Thanks, Regards!

Hello,one year ago, more or less, I bought an Adobe Flash Media Server License for a few features that eventually never got implemented on my social network. The agency working on my site bought it and now Im left with this license key in my hands.Since I have no use for it anymore, what could I possibly do with it? Is it possible to sell it?I don't remember exactly how much I paid for it but it should be roughly around $4,500.Would anyone be interested in case?I hope this is the proper section where to ask.Thanks

Has anyone had experience configuring multicast streaming from Digital Rapids encoders to an FMS 4.5 server? I can stream RTMP to the FMS server and access the video with an embedded Flash player easily enough, but I'm interested in setting up the FMS to allow clients to access a multicast stream. Most Adobe support documentation refers to Adobe Media Encoder Live for the multicast connection configs, not necessarily non-Adobe encoders, so I'm missing a step or two. Thanks,Hugh

I might be a huge idiot, but I really need the Adobe F4V Post Processor for work I'm doing in FMS 4.5. It seems like the tools downloads are unavailable on: http://www.adobe.com/products/adobe-media-server-family/tool-downloads.htmlThe only thing that can be downloaded is the Adobe Access library for Apple iOS. Anyone know if this is on purpose?  Am I just dumb?  In the tools directory of FMS 4.5 there is no F4V Post processor. Anyone know where I can grab the actual FMS Productivity Tools and sample downloads?

Hi Everyone,  I am building a very small chat application in Flash Media Development Server 4.5. I have created all my User Interface stuff like buttons,  stage area etc.  Of course been a chat application users need to send messages back and forth to one another. I know they are lots of ways to send messages. . IYou can use the SharedObject or NetStream method just two examples But in your rexperience what is your prefered method?  What are the advantages or disadvantages  of using these two methods or any other? Thanks

Please help me how stream Video at host, at me site using Adobe Flash Media Streaming? With using localhost and my ip I can just watch streaming in my computer. How should i configure my server to watch streaming at my site?Please help!Thank you!

Hi,It would be nice if you added something likebash -c 'for f in $(ls /etc/ssh/*.pub); do ssh-keygen -lf $f; done'to /etc/rc.local on your EC2 AMI - this would display the SSH key fingerprints in the console output (which can be securely obtained from the ec2 console or command line tools). Without a secure way to obtain these fingerprints it is not possible to detect a man-in-the-middle attack of the first SSH connection to the server.My current workaround is to place the following scipt as the ec2 user data file:#!/bin/bashset -o nounsetset -o errexit# Dump SSH fingerprints to consolefor f in $(ls /etc/ssh/*.pub); do ssh-keygen -lf $f; done > /dev/consoleHowever it would be nice if this functionality was built into the AMI as i'm not currently needing the user data mechanism for anything else.Cheers,Dave

I have an EC2 FMS 4.0 server that periodically stalls forever when users try to connect webcams to RTMP for recording.  When i go to the landing page, I fail to see the RTMP example and the Ineractive sample fails.  This continues until I restart FMS, everything works again.  This did not used to be required until I had to restart the server for a config change.  Any ideas?  I could try upgrading fi this is a known issue but this is an inherited system so I'm hesistant.Thanks so much

I notice the "High I/O Quadruple Extra Large Instance"  in the list of instance types available to be used with fms ami.However when i try to launch one i get the following:"Unable to launch image ami-08cd7261 as the product code 8CE147DA is not supported for the specified region, instance type and operating system combination. ... entire message"Is there an existing combination of this instance type (or other with 10Gigabit ethernet) and fms?Thanks

I am setting up a new FMS server and getting this set of messages in core.00.log when I try to record. 2012-10-2917:48:2010784(e)2581279Assert failed in /modules/streams/mp4/F4VAdaptor/source/F4VContainerWithMoof.cpp line 1749-2012-10-2917:48:2010784(w)2611179Warning from libmp4.so:Invalid H264 packet has been dropped.-2012-10-2917:48:2010784(e)2611178Error from libmp4.so:Unknown Error..-2012-10-2917:48:2010784(e)2601163Failed to record /data/applications/myfmsapp/streams/_definst_/mystream.f4v, no space left on device-the drive has over 300G free. For a while I was trying to chase down a permission problem based on a couple of threads here but even running FMS as root and 777 both the fms and applications folders had no effect. The app does manage to create the mystream.f4v file but it never grows past the 21k it is at creation. This is a server that is an upgrade from my current one so there shouldn't be any issues with the main.asc or the encoder settings since everything works grea

Hello all,I've just bought an adobe media server 5 standar license, and I need to install  it on a box running Virtualmin (www.virtualmin.com). Virtualmin is a hosting manager platform, that is running on CentOS 6.I was able to install it without apache (because it is already installed), and it starts correctly. But I was not able to make HTTP streaming work.How do I configure an apache virtualhost to serve Adobe Media Server 5 HTTP streaming?Thank youRogerio

The streamnames both for these, am I not able to define them in a varible loaded from a file?internalstreamname = "foo";application.myStream = Stream.get(internalstreamname);This does not work.

Im looking for a expert who may be able to shed some light on a solution and or work around for the following im looking to impliment adobe flash server 4.5 interactive pRTMP feature but have it work over a CDN . is this even possible or is there a work around to be able to have this work? any or all suggestions or solutions on protecting a video stream is appreciated. looking for the best solution to defeat  or i guess minimize any rtmp dump programs that are able to capture flash streaming videos.

Can someone tell me how to connect to Akamai within a ServerSide Application? They are using there own authentification method... a simple Netconnection.puplish() does not work. They are providing a Actionscript Class (AkamaiFCSPublish.as) for connection to there Servers....but I need a Server-Sides Actions Script Class? Or how can I use/integrate a Actionscript Class into Serverside Scripts? I would like to forward a stream to Akamai from my own FMIS entry after modifiying the stream.

I am running on windows 7 - 64 bit.I have installed Flash Media Server 4.5 on the computer.Everything seems like it was installed correctly, but when I open the Adobe Flash Media Server Start screen I am only able to see the RTMP DYNAMIC STREAMING SAMPLE - Single Bit Rate play.when i try to play the (HDS) HTTP DYNAMIC STREAMING SAMPLE single or multi bit rateit gives me the ERROR # 2032 message.Can someone help me please?Is there anything else I need to be doing?

I'm trying to use the admin api to call the function getUsers() and I'm not sure of the correct URL syntax. I want to return the number of users currently connected to an event instance. Could someone provide an example of what the URL connection string would look like?I tried the following syntax http://localhost:1111/admin/getUsers?auser=USER&apswd=PASSWORD&appInst=livepkgr/_definst_/myEventbut it returns this error message. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>-<result> <level>error</level> <code>NetConnection.Admin.CommandFailed</code> <timestamp>10/26/2012 8:06:23 AM</timestamp> </result>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I can successfully use the ping command: http://localhost:1111/admin/ping?auser=USER&apswd=PASSWORD<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>-<result><level>status</level> <code>NetConnection.Call.Success</co

I'm building a 2-way audio chat app. Is there a way that I can record the incoming stream of audio on a stream and combine it with input from the microphone to record on the server?

Hello,I'm trying to understand how the HLS process works.  I see that Apache is required for the streaming to iOS devices.  Our server is already running an instance of IIS7 on port 80 on Windows 2008.  Now, we don't have Apache installed and I would like to know how we can reproduce the functionnality of Apache using IIS without installing Apache.Anyone has a link that explain how Apache does the work?  For example, we need to call an URL like "localhost/hls-vod/file.mp4.m3u8" to playback in iOS.  However, it is not clear what is the process that goes between Apache and AMS.  I'm sure it's possible to create the logic with some .Net code under IIS.Any info will help!

I am going to build a site like ustream.tv. The main use case is A user will create a live channel and any other user can view that channel. After doing some google search I found this is done using flash media server.I thought If I could do some load testing I could find how much hardware resource I need. Also a stress testing session will show me the breaking point of my server. But the trial version supports few parallel rtmp connections. So the testing will not work here. So I was looking for configuration of servers that runs ustream dot tv . So I have these questionsWhat type of server is used in live streaming sites? CPU, RAM?To balance the bandwidth does it use multiple NICs or any other technique?Do I really need Flash Media Server? or there are other alternatives?

I've installed Flash Media Interactive Server 4.5 and after installation I successfully streamed to iOS devices.Today, streaming to iOS devices, suddenly stopped working. Streaming to other Flash compatible devices works just fine.I use JWPlayer to connect and that gives the following error message:The video playback was aborted due to a corruption problem or because the video used features your browser did not support:http://my.fms.url/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/live/mystream.m3u8Some times, if I reload the site and try again, I do get a few seconds of playback of the live stream, then the playback stops with the same error message, and I can't seem to be able to play back the stream ever again.I've tried deleting the .stream-files generated in the ApplicationsFolder\livepkgr\events\_definst_\live as well as the files generated in ApplicationsFolder\livepkgr\streams\_definst_\mystream but that doesn't help.I use Adobe Media Live Encoder 3.2 to stream to the server, using H.264 and AA

Hello!After 5 days looking for many tutorials and guidelines, I was forced to open a discussion here, since not found any trust information about.I wanna limit the bitrate at server side - main.asc file.In other words, if an user try to stream using FME over 600 kbps, his connection will be dropped - rejected or something similar.Where or how can I do that?Thanks a lot,Rafael