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chotgor1
Inspiring
October 23, 2011
Question

Multi-point publishing with different version of FMSs

  • October 23, 2011
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Can I use different versions of  FMS (3.0 3.5 4.0 to 4.5) to muti-point publishing? Use existing old ones for most streams, and use 4.5 for iOS apps.

The answer is Im guessing probably yes, as I was able to multi-point publish to different big company's new FMS (4?) from one of our FMS 3.0 machine. But just to make sure before I make investment?

Also Air 3 sdk based iOS app now can connect to FMS 4.5 and play h264 live video stream on ios devices over the appstore approved http-live-streaming protocol right? Just to be clear 🙂

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    Adobe Employee
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    Adobe Employee
    October 27, 2011

    Like you have found - it should be possible but might not be most tested areas - i am not sure whether we officially support such use case - i can find out that for you.

     

    If you are looking for http live streaming playback - you dont need AIR - any native iOS application or Safari browser can do that i.e. streaming through FMS 4.5. However AIR 3 SDK does support H.264 playback via progressive download or via HLS feature of FMS.

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    chotgor1Author
    Inspiring
    October 27, 2011

    Thanks for reply.

    - I have tested and the multi-point publishing does work between different versions of FMS. I installed FMS 4.5 and multi-point published to it from existing FMS 3.0 and everything worked smoothly. I am not sure if long hours of publishing will result in any unpredictable hickups.

    - That new HLS thing is based on recording f4f files on the FMS 4.5 server, and 24x7 live stream might need some routine deleting the old files, because I saw it creates bunch of 15-25MB files for the HLS. I looked at the manual documentation only bit, probably there is some setting for the application.xml to auto-delete the recording. It wasn't mentioned or defined there in the default files.

    - On Air 3.0 SDK iOS app, I couldn't figure out how to load the HLS stream into the app using AS3, like we used to with old RTMP streams. The only working solution I found was to load StageWebView with the http stream url, and it works fine. But I'm afraid Apple will simply reject the app if it just loads http url that loads up default iphone player to play the stream.

    - This HLS thing is so new, there are very scarce documents and turorials or articles out there.

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