Stream FLVs - new setup

Hi Patrick.

I was using the documentation that was installed with the server. Maybe I just didn't get that far. Thank you for the quick setup.

One last question - I was tinkering with setting my <streams> to be in a different folder on the same machine. Will those settings take effect with this application?

I am sorry to hear you don't like our documentation. I may be a bit biased but I actually think the documentation is pretty good. Please do me a favor and give it a second chance.
I suggest to start with flashmediaserver_developing.pdf (in your documentation subdirectory of the FMS root) - it gets interesting on page 14 et sqq.

In short, this is what you have to do:
- create a subdirectory in [FMS_ROOT]\applications
the name of the directory is the name of your application. Let's call it "foo":
[FMS_ROOT]\applications\foo

- this is where your server side scripts go to

- if you want to stream FLVs and MP3s, you need a directory called "streams":
[FMS_ROOT]\applications\foo\streams

- Now the media content needs to sit in an application instance. You may put this into the default instance:
[FMS_ROOT]\applications\foo\streams\_definst_ (please create it - it won't be created automatically)
or create another instance:
[FMS_ROOT]\applications\foo\streams\bar

- When you code your client, you need to make a netconnection to:
rtmp://yourfmshost/yourapplication/yourinstance
please note that the streams directory does not show up here
In our case it's:
rtmp://yourfmshost/foo/bar
or for the default instance
rtmp://yourfmshost/foo/_definst_
but because it's the default instance you may omit it as well:
rtmp://yourfmshost/foo

- When the NetConnection is established you need to create a stream on this connection and play your video.


Please also have a look at the Devcenter for FMS - there are many samples and easy to use step-by-step tutorials there that will be of help for you.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver

Regarding your concerns about the edge process:
Every FMS Server always runs 3 processes: master, core and edge. In short, the edge is the process which talks to the client, the core runs the actual application and the master looks after them - more details are in the docs
so it's nothing to worry about.

The edge server is something else, i.e. a FMS install that can act as a proxy to an origin server. This is part of the enterprise version of FMS (also referred to as "Origin / Edge").


Have fun using Flash Media Server!