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Anonymous
December 7, 2008
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Live Streaming and server ressources

  • December 7, 2008
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I am not sure about the limitations of the flash media server.
Can you please answer the following questions:

- Is it possible to do more than one live stream simultaneously on one FMS installation?

- If yes: how server intensive would that be?

I am thinking about renting a server, installing fms on it and host live events. I would use the flash media encoder software to produce the streams. But as mentioned above, I don't know if uploading more than one live stream is possible and if yes, how many live streams I could have? I cannot afford a high-end server. The server would be only medium sized (Dual Core with about 3GHz).
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    Anonymous
    December 8, 2008
    Sure... you can handle many live streams on a single server

    Given that you are operating on a budget, the likelihood is that you'll max out your bandwidth before you max our your system resources.

    A 3Ghz dual core machine should support several thousand concurrent streams, but I suspect you'll have a 100Mbps uplink on the server (you usually can't get a 1Gbps uplink unless you're running your own switch, or paying an arm and a leg per MB).
    Bijeshcnair
    Bijeshcnair
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    December 17, 2008
    using cable tv connection to take the signal into my computer, using a tv tuner card or video card.
    i need to buy a H.264 hardware encoder. i want multiple video streams in my FMS server so that i can serve my clients according to their taste,
    i want to know about some functionalities of FMS server.
    : can i stream all the channels from the cable to the FMS server which is encoded using H.264
    If that is possible how can i select each channels from the FMS server,
    also want to buy a descent H.264 encoder and a video card or Tv tuner card to support all these functions Can you suggest one?
    Bijeshcnair
    Bijeshcnair
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    December 8, 2008
    i cant access to the link given below..
    i'm also looking to host couple of channels on my site with H.264 encoding..
    ive got a quad core processor system..

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    squecuec
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    December 8, 2008
    I hope this may help.
    http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/calculating_bandwidth.html
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