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July 17, 2007
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Synchronizing streams during playback

  • July 17, 2007
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Hi does anyone know of a good way to synchronize separate (video/audio) recorded streams during playback?

For example takea video conferencing app; I can can record each stream separately but during playback is there anything i can do force them to be synchronized? From reading around, it seems like the answer is "No".. Any thoughts?
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    Unfortunately, what you've found from your reading is pretty much it. There is no way to sync FMS streams reliably.

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    July 18, 2007
    Yeah... the big problem is that you can't hold data in buffer when you pause a stream. You can sync progressively downloaded flv's (since you can pause one when you need to), but if you pause or seek an FMS stream, all of the data in buffer gets dumped. Very frustrating.
    Correct answer
    July 17, 2007
    Unfortunately, what you've found from your reading is pretty much it. There is no way to sync FMS streams reliably.
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    July 17, 2007
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    Originally posted by: JayCharles
    Unfortunately, what you've found from your reading is pretty much it. There is no way to sync FMS streams reliably.


    Thats very interesting considering the effort Macromedia took to provide playback functionality in streams (video/audio and even data). It almost seems like an oversight that streams can't be synchronized.

    Thanks for the reply Jay.