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milankoko
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September 11, 2009
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live stream switching

  • September 11, 2009
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hi!

I have a problem. I want to set up a live streaming experience, where streams will be switched live by a server side application written in .NET. The flash clients will have no control over what stream they want to watch.the setup is such: video streams from two cameras are encoded in Live Encoder. FMS should stream only a single stream to the clients and which stream should be shown should be chosen by a .NET application

How do I go about accomplishing such a task? As I understand the FMS uses RTMP to communicate with clients. Are there any other ways to contact the FMS and tell it to switch between two streams, i.e. an XMLSocket connection? This would be perfect since it would integrate with the .NET server perfectly. I do not like the prospect of using RTMP to contact the FMS and tell it to switch between streams. Is it even possible, or can the stream switching be performed only per client?

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    Anonymous
    October 12, 2009

    Why not just use two different streeaming servers?  The easiest way would be to switch from one server stream to the next.

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    Anonymous
    September 11, 2009

    You can use an XML socket, but the FMS application will need to initiate the connection, as FMS has no support for listening for anything other than RTMP and HTTP requests.

    Stream switching can happen on the FMS side. In your FMS application, you'll create a server side stream, and use the Stream.play method for playing other sources (live streams or recorded flv/h.264 files) over that stream. Your subscribers will connect to the server side stream

    See the FMS docs for the Stream class and the XMLSocket class.

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