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SivashankarRajendran
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July 3, 2007
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My You Tube Site -Clarification

  • July 3, 2007
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Hi all,

Am developing an "youtube.com" kind of website where we can upload anyformat of files and view it online in a flash player.
The functional flow for this is as follows
1. Upload video file
2. FLV Conversion of the same
3. Placing it in my Flash Media Server
4. Streaming video to flash player.

For this i have already come up with a prototype for doing this

Though am ready to buy Flash Media Server(FMS), I have doubts in the following things

1.Is there any FMS API to do FLV conversion from my webserver to Flash Media Server? that is a upload component which converts and stores an FLV file in the FMS during upload? The documentation is not speaking clear about flv conversion.

2. Server streams folder holds all the instance folders where we store our FLV files. for example if am creating a instance folder for each and every users. How much folder instances can be created as a whole for the same application? Sure it will be dependent on the File System right? ( million folders cannot be created inside a windows folder. Right? )

3. Can we able to have any much amount of FLV files in our stream folder? If there any specific size upto which FMS can tolerate.Please specify.

4. Can u please say how youtube is organising those flv converted files in media server? so that my retrieval time will be reduced

5. If am loading a new FLV file to my FMS which already has no space in it , is there any way to redirect those streams to some other location for storing?

6. If am having my FLV converted file, will the media server take care of placing it in its appropriate application folder?

Please help me out in this regard by providing tips, suggesstion and reference urls

Thanks in advance,
Siva
mail: sivashankar.r@allfon.com
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    gangsterflashman
    Participating Frequently
    July 12, 2007
    no. none from me. i honestly dont have the first clue
    Anonymous
    July 5, 2007
    before I answer your post I most warn you that youtube used progressive download for his video, not streaming video, so they don't use a FMS.... and they had excellent reasons why they didn't use streaming

    1. FMS can't convert video.... you can use ffmepg to do that. FMS can't run batch file, exe or any external program so you will need a server-side script with your webServer to upload, convert, store and return the path to FMS..

    2. I think you are right when you said that it dependant on the File System

    3. don't know again but it's probably related to the file System

    4. sorry youtube don't said to me but it's sure that they have tons and tons of folder on several server(webServer). They stock path access in DB

    5 and 6. automaticaly no so you will need to program this on the webServer side


    From my view I think you should revise you solution because there's some important pieces lost in you plan... and FMS is probably not a ideal choice for you. If you need more explanation just ask!
    SivashankarRajendranAuthor
    Participant
    July 6, 2007
    Thanks a lot for ur information...

    Your inputs really helped me a lot. Can u pl gimme ur mail address. so that i can contact u further.

    Thanks and regards,

    Siva
    mail : sivashankar.r@allfon.com
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