Moving from Windows Streaming to Flash

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March 19, 2007
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We have been using Windows Media Services to multicast to our 1500 user campus with great success. We've been asked to move to the web and make our material available via streaming to a much wider audience. Flash streaming seems to have everything we need but we honestly have no idea how to get started. Is there (SOMEwhere) a simple Step-by-Step "Getting Started" document that will walk us through our first video stream. We do both live and archived streams currently (multicast) so I'm happy with using a live feed or archived files. I just need some simple instructions. My Windows Media experience doesn't seem to help at all. Thanks.

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Anyone with a solid background in Actionscript (and some background in server/client communications) should have no problem gettng started with FMS.

As far a simple guides... I don't really know of any. The thing with FMS is that by itself, it does very little. Most other streaming servers do most of the heavy lifting for you, where FMS wants you to tell it what to do (hence the complex scriping environment). The examples I linked to are about as straightforward as I've seen.

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RCHendersonAuthor

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Thanks for the help. I guess I'm off to learn ActionScript.

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RCHendersonAuthor

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I'm hoping the site you suggested and the samples I downloaded will make sense to my colleages that already use Flash. I have high hopes for that...they're Greek to me.
Is there ANYwhere with a simple, 1. do this 2. do that 3. do this next sort of user's guide to FMS for absolute idiots like myself? Thanks.

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Correct answer

Anyone with a solid background in Actionscript (and some background in server/client communications) should have no problem gettng started with FMS.

As far a simple guides... I don't really know of any. The thing with FMS is that by itself, it does very little. Most other streaming servers do most of the heavy lifting for you, where FMS wants you to tell it what to do (hence the complex scriping environment). The examples I linked to are about as straightforward as I've seen.

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Anonymous

Yeah... using FMS and Flash is a huge departure from other streaming formats. The biggest difference is that there's no "default player" or anything like that. You need to build a .swf that will be your client app, and the .swf makes the connection to FMS.

Here are some basic samples that should help get you started:

http://blogs.adobe.com/dreaming/2006/11/fms_resource_center.html

Also, you might want to pick up a copy of "Programming Flash Communication Server" (O'Reilly). Lots of really good info in there.

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