Trying to get Flash Media Server working

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March 26, 2008
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I am on a headless server. My first question - do I have the right processes running:
localhost:11110 *:* LISTEN 5793/fmsadmin
*:1935 *:* LISTEN 16781/fmsedge
localhost:19350 *:* LISTEN 16781/fmsedge
*:1111 *:* LISTEN 5793/fmsadmin
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Answering my own question, the way to diagnose something that is only running on one machine is to stop the server service running on that machine and see if the client still works. I had rtmp://localhost/vod2/ProdKPIs.flv in the SWF file rather then rtmp://www.strandz.org/vod2/ProdKPIs.flv.

Two comments. The stream doesn't run to the end on Firefox if you don't have the latest Flash plugin. Also IE will crash if you close it down while you are on the page - I'm just going to put that down as an IE bug and not loose any sleep over it...

thanks for everyone's help - Chris Murphy (www.strandz.org)

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Anonymous

Thanks vladaman,

I've got streaming working very nicely from the headless server to my own machine. Another user does have a problem thou (which is not a firewall issue). Could you verify that it is working from your end. please go to http://www.strandz.org/flash/ProdKPIs.html

Another thing - I've chosen not to run the AdminServer at all - I just restart fms after placing a new file in the vod2/media directory. Is this ok?

thanks - Chris Murphy

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Anonymous

I've had enough responses now to realise that the server is streaming beautifully - but only to my computer. It won't even work from another computer on this network. I have checked that the permissions on the Flash client are ok, and they seem to be. I remember on my machine I had to followed some of the instructions from http://www.onyxservers.com/help/adobe_flash_video_streaming_guide.html - see the part titled 'Troubleshooting Tip' - maybe my problem is related to something like this - however the 'Troubleshooting Tip' was for when the server was on the same machine - the problem I have is with a real remote server.

It is almost like the Development version of fms is tied to one machine! I don't know of any special relationship between my the server and this desktop machine, except that this machine is where the .flv files were created.

I have looked at the apache and tomcat log files - I can see clients coming in and grabbing the .html and GETing the html and swt files - but no errors. /var/log/messages doesn't have anything but the server being started and stopped.
Also I have looked at all the log files in /opt/adobe/fms/logs, but nothing looks like an error.

What can I do to diagnose this problem?

thanks - Chris

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Anonymous

Correct answer

Answering my own question, the way to diagnose something that is only running on one machine is to stop the server service running on that machine and see if the client still works. I had rtmp://localhost/vod2/ProdKPIs.flv in the SWF file rather then rtmp://www.strandz.org/vod2/ProdKPIs.flv.

Two comments. The stream doesn't run to the end on Firefox if you don't have the latest Flash plugin. Also IE will crash if you close it down while you are on the page - I'm just going to put that down as an IE bug and not loose any sleep over it...

thanks for everyone's help - Chris Murphy (www.strandz.org)

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vladaman

Participating Frequently

The fmsedge process is quite normal - I think FMS runs couple of processes and distributes them to sub-threads. I think it's because of performance on multi-core processors.

In Fedora /etc/rc.d/init.d/fms start should work just nicely. If the server doesn't start make sure you have all libraries installed.
Don't forget to check logs and paste them here so we can take a look.

Graeme Bull

Community Expert

Looks good. The server by default will listen on 1935 for the normal FMS service, and port 1111 for the admin.

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Anonymous

My concern was that doing the following, as the doco said:

# ./fmsmgr server start
Server:start command:
Server service start not found. Exiting.
#

, did not work, so instead I did this:

# ./fmsmgr server fms start
Server:fms command:start
NPTL 2.7
Starting Adobe Flash Media Server (please check /var/log/messages)
#

, which did work. Also I was a bit concerned that the procress said 'fmsedge' - when I thought that the edge was something to do with a different product...

thankyou - Chris

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