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"Simple" video streaming

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November 18, 2006
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My company just installed FMS2 on a Windows server solely for the delivery of Flash video into Captivate 2 training modules (it uses the Flash flv play back component). I can assign the content path to the flv as I import it into Captivate. I have been practicing with my local host and the FMS developers edition setting things up as follows:
Open FMS directory
Open Applications folder
inside Applications folder create folder "videoApp"
inside"videoApp" folder create folder "streams"
inside "videoApp" paste actionscript file from Flash 8 "main.asc" (I am using Flash flv playback
component)
Inside of "streams" folder create "_definst_" folder
upload flv files into "_definst_" folder

This works just fine on my local host.
My question is,
1. is this an acceptable way to stream the flv files ?
2. Can I put say 100 of my flv files in this one _definst_ folder and efficiently stream to say 100 subscribers? (we have a big pipe)

I know FMS is capable of great things (I'm using a thorough bred to plow a field) but just to get up and running, before they fire me, can I get by this way? Thanks

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barfine

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got it working with the sample multi-streams example mentioned above

amen !

now i really need to get it to work with just one video.flv and one video.swf and skin.swf per video stream .... no fancy .html file to select different videos (although i give the authors a high five for the coding involved)....actually i just need each video.swf created seperately and to go into an invision forum because i have it setup already with user permissions that way.

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barfine

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this is the error message I receive in the flash admin console when trying the "Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Streaming Flash Video' when installed on my server:

Sending this message: Hello! You are connected as: false
Error : command msg sent before client connection has been accepted.

suggestions ??

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IMSTAMU

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Let me know if you get an answer to this. Like you we just want to stream in the same manner as our Helix, Quicktime, and Windows Media Servers. I gather we have to make our own player or something but I am having trouble finding a "Quick and Dirty Guide to Simple Video/Audio Streaming". The "registering apps" and other features are very nice... we just don't need them at this point.

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barfine

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it really is discouraging, I have a new dedicated server setup for one purpose - video streaming.

Yet I can't seem to get any support on what the EXACT contentpath setting should be when using a flash video server on the web. ? This is beyond frustrating, and I feel wasted a lot of money and time.

Typical adobe, pages and page of pdf files on customization but something as basic as setup does not seem to be covered (in my opinion).

I am will to pay someone to help me with this configuration after I have spent 3 solid days with every possible combination of paths and just can not get the server to stream.

<extremely frustrated>

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barfine

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is there any place that i can hire someone to help with this problem.?

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barfine

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sorry but it seems the URL link i posted my above post doesn't go through, here is the recommendations from adobe:

Streaming FLV files from a FCS

If you use a FCS to stream FLV files to the FLVPlayback component, you must add the main.asc file to your Flash Communication Server FLV application. You can find the main.asc file in your Flash 8 application folder under Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/Samples/Components/FLVPlayback/main.asc.
To set up your FCS for streaming FLV files:

1. Create a folder in your FCS application folder, and give it a name such as my_application.
2. Copy the main.asc file into the my_application folder.
3. Create a folder named streams in the my_application folder.
4. Create a folder named _definst_ inside the streams folder.
5. Place your FLV files in the _definst_ folder.

To access your FLV files on the Flash Communication Server, use a URL such as rtmp://my_servername/my_application/stream.flv.

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Anonymous

I don't know either. Hope someone can answer it

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barfine

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http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00003477.html

according to this webpage i need to add the main.asc file to the Flash Communication Server FLV application (i have placed it in the /applications/video directory

now i have created a streams directory
within streams, now i have created a _definst_ directory

basically my config is exactly as the OP's of this topic except i have a video instead of videoapp

as suggested in the adobe URL link i posted above i changed the contentPath to:
rtmp://66.235.194.204/video/streams/_definst_/AVSEQ14.flv

that didn't work so now have set it back to just AVSEQ14.flv

I'm really stuck here, any configuration ideas appreciated. Thank you.

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barfine

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I just installed FMS2 on Windows, my settings are as follows;

Inside Applications folder created a folder "video"
Inside "video" folder created "_definst_" folder
uploaded flv into _definst_

Inside the webserver root i created "test"
uploaded swf and html files into "test"

these files were created with flash 8 and i chose communications server as I am hosting from the internet.

Inside the FMS2 console i created a application directory name video/_definst_
under the streams tab, nothing shows up and this 'virtual directory?' disappears, i'm not sure about what is needed here?

the problem is when I access the html file from the webserver it hangs and won't display anything as I believe there isn't a path to the .flv file or am i missing something else when creating these files with flash 8

any help or suggestions appreciated, thank you

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Anonymous

1. Yes, that's acceptable ;) and I think it's also a quite common setup.
2. Yes, you can. With 100 concurrent connections you shouldn't see a problem.

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