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evansls
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April 13, 2007
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Streaming Media Software Requirements

  • April 13, 2007
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I work at an online university in the IT department and I'm currently building requirements for a flash based media server. We currently use some Adobe Captivate and Adobe Breeze projects in our classrooms that is stored on a file server using IIS. Although things are going great using what we have, we plan to step things up a incredibly over the summer so we can actually stream video and audio without the need for the end user to download the video/audio first to their computer to view it.

We have an assortment of quicktime files and windows media files that we would like to also stream, but we would preferably like to convert these formats into a single format such as Adobe Flash, which is why I'm here looking for assistance. I understand this can be done with many third party products like Sorenson Squeeze, Flix and Sound Forge.

We are preferably interested in a content management style of an interface so staff can be enabled with varying skills to publish streaming presentations, videos, audio themselves yet maintain an IT control. It's important that this solution can provide the capability to protect sensitive video information with seamless authentication to such files including the ability to also provide usage information and reporting metrics.

So, now that you understand a little bit of what I'm interested can anyone explain if Adobe's Flash Media Server 2 can provide these such requests? I ask, because I installed the developer version recently and it seems to only offer the ability to administer the performance of flash videos where as we are looking for this, but also the ability to control it via something of a content management system.

Thanks so much for you help.

Sincerely,
Evan
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    Anonymous
    April 13, 2007
    FMS isn't really set up to act as a CMS, but it has a lot of ways to connect to other services (Get/post requests, XML socket requests, remoting, etc), so it's a good candidate to function as a part of a larger CMS application.

    The way I would approach this would be to develop the CMS as an http service (ASP, PHP ColdFusion, etc), and design the FMS application to hook up to that service for things like user authentication and rights management. The FMS application would simply accept credentials from a .swf client, make a request of the http service to verify said credientials, and respond accordingly.
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    evanslsAuthor
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    April 13, 2007
    quote:
    Originally posted by: JayCharles
    The way I would approach this would be to develop the CMS as an http service (ASP, PHP ColdFusion, etc), and design the FMS application to hook up to that service for things like user authentication and rights management. The FMS application would simply accept credentials from a .swf client, make a request of the http service to verify said credientials, and respond accordingly.


    Hi Jay -- Thanks for your help with my questions. Do you know if there are any existing third party products that could be purchased that piggy backs off of Flash Media Server 2? I read that Stream Pro by Digital Rapids offers workflow automation, integration, and transcoding capabilities. Do you know much about this product or any product similar? I hope my questions stay on topic, because we would still like to use Flash Media Server 2 along with a client of some kind.

    Thank you again,
    Evan
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