Streaming MPEG-4 Streams through Flash?

Question

My company has live streams for CNN and NASA TV using VBrick.
The direct URL's can be accessed through our internal network via a
link similar to 
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/vbs2d1.sdp
.

Is there any way I can have this stream through a Flash
interface I create using a Flash Media Server? I've streamed live
video via my webcam via Flash, but not sure if this kind of
connection to a live TV broadcast would be possible.

Thanks!
Alysen

Anonymous · Answer

You can't do it directly (FMS and the flashplyer don't support mp4), but you can make it happen with just a little bit of sloppiness.

What you could do is receive the streams from Nasa and CNN on a machine with a video output (we'll call this "machine A"), and run your .swf (the one that connects to FMS) on another machine ("machine B") with a video input (like a capture card).

You would connect the video out/audio out of machine A to the video in/audio in of machine B. Then it's just a matter of selecting the video input as the camera for the .swf (using the settings dialog).

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