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replaysMIKE
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June 4, 2009
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Stream recorded clips as psedo-live for online tv channel

  • June 4, 2009
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Hey all - I'm really new to flash server (as in hours), and I'm hoping there's a way to do this in server 3.5 without too much trouble...

I'm looking to setup a tv channel type stream where I can create a server side playlist that can stream out prerecorded FLV's at specific times, so all clients are viewing the stream as if its a live video channel. Certain clips need to play at specific times, etc. It says in the server docs that "Flash Media Server allows you to create a mixture of live and recorded streams and play them in a preprogrammed sequence as one stream using server-side playlists"

I can think of ways to implement this with some clever client scripting, but it seems the server has support for this. But I can't figure out how to do it, there's not much info in the Developer Guide about server side playlists. Maybe I'm missing something. It seems like a common feature people would want.

Thanks for the help!

-Mike

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    FMS has support for playing video files over a stream, but it doesn't have built in facilities for scheduling playback times.

    What you would need to do is create an array or object listing your video files and the times at which they are to start playing. You'll then need to run a function that checks the current time on an interval and plays the appropriate video file.

    Not a huge task, but as you mentioned... you'll need to do some programming for this one.

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    Anonymous
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    June 5, 2009

    FMS has support for playing video files over a stream, but it doesn't have built in facilities for scheduling playback times.

    What you would need to do is create an array or object listing your video files and the times at which they are to start playing. You'll then need to run a function that checks the current time on an interval and plays the appropriate video file.

    Not a huge task, but as you mentioned... you'll need to do some programming for this one.

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    Anonymous
    June 5, 2009

    sounds like a decent feature request.

    https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=108

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    replaysMIKEAuthor
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    June 5, 2009

    Thanks guys, I'm just making sure I wasn't missing something.. sure would be nice to be able to schedule playlists so people could run their own pseudo-tv channels... Wowza seems to have a free plugin for this, and I've seen it implemented on http://66.135.33.137/apps/st79g5qt8lvh8cymluwx/TVStation/tvstation_viewer.html (called TV Station 1.8, a free service from Influxis http://www.influxis.com/applications/tvstation/?gclid=CK_FipHu85oCFRYiagodFH66eQ)

    I can totally do this client side (I am an as3 programmer), but would have been a lot nicer/easier if the server had capability for this. I'll certainly request it - thanks for the feature request link!

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    Anonymous
    June 5, 2009

    Hi Mike,

    Sorry there isn't more info in the Dev Guide, but here's a video tutorial about creating a TV station-style app using a server-side playlist:

    http://fmsguru.com/showtutorial.cfm?tutorialID=12

    Should be perfect to get you up and running.

    Jody

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