Serverside recording suddenly stops

GTHvidsten‌, this is a pretty old thread, but just in case you are still stuck with the problem, the solution offered by ctdavids‌ here: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/865510 worked for me!

The problem was that the recording stream was being assigned to a variable inside the function (that starts the recording) is enough to start the recording. But, within a few minutes, the variable would get garbage collected. This would make the recording to abruptly stop with no status notifications or error messages.

To fix the issue, just put the variable inside of a global object, say,

var recordingStreamReference = Stream.get("recording");

strMaps[recordingStreamName] = recordingStreamReference;

where strMaps is the global variable (Object), recordingStreamName is just a unique name for the recording, and the recordingStreamReference is the variable that has the recording stream. Based on your main.asc file, I'm not sure how the application.clients.livestream was working, but no harm in trying an explicit global variable, right?

Hope this helps!

Last night this happened again.

Someone was recording on the server, and the recording stopped 45 minutes before they initiated the stop command.

There's nothing in the FMS logs indicating a disconnect, there's nothing in my own logs indicating that it stopped too soon, and there's nothing in the server logs indicating network dropouts or excessive CPU usage (or any other abnormalities at all).

I've got a vague hunch that it might be a sort of a buffering issue. The serverside recording buffers the livestream, but can't record quick enough, so the buffer builds up so that when the user stops the recording, the recording stops without writing its buffer to the recorded file... not that this should be an issue in the first place because the server is definitely quick enough to cope with it.

Does anyone have any other good ideas on things to check or what might go wrong?

Are you using the latest version of Flash Media Encoder -- Flash Media Live Encoder 3? Or are you using a custom Flash Player client to encode?