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DanMITRE
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August 16, 2011
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Record and republish an existing multicast stream?

  • August 16, 2011
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I have a scenario where there exist a number of multicast video streams on the local network; I have NO access to the initiator of those streams, I can only consume them.  What I'd like to do is, preferably via some method that can be triggered programmatically (ideally at the command line), fire up an FMS application which will record the video from one of those streams in order to provide DVR functionality to one or more flash clients.

In other words:

Camera --> Multicast Stream --> ???  --> Flash Media Server application/stream --> Flash consumer

...Trying to fill in that ???.  If it requires some other software -- VLC, or whatever -- that's fine.  The solution can be utterly hackish as long as it works.

Thanks!

-Dan

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    Nikhil_Kalyan
    Nikhil_Kalyan
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    August 17, 2011

    Hi,

    I can throw in some un-verified ideas. As far as FMS is concerned, it can always act as a multicast client and be a part of the peer network that the player creates. So when it gets the stream, i dont know, but we can make a server side stream object to capture the multicast stream and record. That's a very nice thing to try actually.

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    DanMITREAuthor
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    August 22, 2011

    Very interesting, and sounds like exactly what I'm trying to do... but I don't quite understand how to implement this.  Is it something that should be reasonably simple?  Is there a code example you might be able to offer?  I have a good deal of experience doing client-side flash programming, but very little experience with FMS server-side code.

    Many thanks!

    -Dan

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