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JohnASmith21
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April 11, 2012
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Streaming for Android devices using Amazon AWS and Adobe FMS 4.5

  • April 11, 2012
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I have created a live stream using Amazon Web Services and Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5.

AWS provides me with both a .f4m and .m3u8 file, to use in  <object><embed> and  <video> tags, respectively.

The .f4m loads fine on my desktop browser, and the .m3u8 file loads fine on my iOS device. However, my Android devices will not load either file.

What code/solutions are there to get this to play on Android devices?

My current .f4m code (retrieved from http://www.osmf.org/configurator/fmp):

<object width="600" height="409">

    <param name="movie" value="http://fpdownload.adobe.com/strobe/FlashMediaPlayback_101.swf"></param>

    <param name="flashvars" value="src=http%3A%2F%2F<myinfo>.cloudfront.net%2Fhds-live%2Flivepkgr%2F_definst_%2Fliveevent%2Flivestream.f4m"></param>

    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>

    <embed src="http://fpdownload.adobe.com/strobe/FlashMediaPlayback_101.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always"

                allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="409" flashvars="src=http%3A%2F%2F<myinfo>.cloudfront.net%2Fhds-live%2Flivepkgr%2F_definst_%2Fliveevent%2Flivestream.f4m">

    </embed>

</object>

My current .m3u8 code:

<video src="http://myinfo>.cloudfront.net/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/livestream.m3u8" height="300" width="400"> </video>

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Correct answer Shiraz Anwar

Few additional things which I just came across while setting up for live stream on my Android from AWS are as follows:

1. for the first time when I tried to run the live stream on my android app, it didnt run at all and I thought your concerns are valid for an instance :-) .

2. Later, I killed the application from task manager, restarted it cleanly and again provided the url and it streamed without issues.

Please also ensure that:

- You had put a crossdomain.xml file under <fmsinstalldirectory>/webroot folder.

- You have provided the correct stream name in the <media> tag in Manifest.xml file inside <fmsinstalldirectory>/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent folder

(hopefully you have done it since you are already playing it on PC)

You may also like to cehck the apache logs inside <fmsinstalldirectory>/Apache2.2/logs/access_logs folder to find whether your Android device request is reaching to the server.

Hope these steps will help you in osloating the problem.

Regards,

Shiraz Anwar

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JohnASmith21Author
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April 12, 2012

Anyone have insight/thoughts on this? This would seem to be a pretty common want from streaming...

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Shiraz Anwar
Adobe Employee
April 13, 2012

Hi John,

I have just tried with an OSMF player on my android device and was successfully able to ply one of the hds vod streams that ships with FMS4.5.

I have created this player once for my own testing purpose, so when I have provided the url like - "http://<myamazoninstance>/hds-vod/sample1_150kbps.f4v.f4m", it started stremaing without issues.

Although, so far I havent tried making a html, hosting on a webserver and then finding the issue.

What I will suggest you to directly play the stream on your android device using the swf file and see if it plays fine.

Just in case if you like I can share the air apk I have used to test this functionality.

Regards,

Shiraz Anwar

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Adobe Employee
Shiraz AnwarCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
April 13, 2012

Few additional things which I just came across while setting up for live stream on my Android from AWS are as follows:

1. for the first time when I tried to run the live stream on my android app, it didnt run at all and I thought your concerns are valid for an instance :-) .

2. Later, I killed the application from task manager, restarted it cleanly and again provided the url and it streamed without issues.

Please also ensure that:

- You had put a crossdomain.xml file under <fmsinstalldirectory>/webroot folder.

- You have provided the correct stream name in the <media> tag in Manifest.xml file inside <fmsinstalldirectory>/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent folder

(hopefully you have done it since you are already playing it on PC)

You may also like to cehck the apache logs inside <fmsinstalldirectory>/Apache2.2/logs/access_logs folder to find whether your Android device request is reaching to the server.

Hope these steps will help you in osloating the problem.

Regards,

Shiraz Anwar

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