video uploading and viewing

Yes, I am using Adobe Media Server starter (trial version).
I am using windows and I gt my centos VM. In the VM i have installed AMS.

Now I want to upload a video (.mp4) inside the AMS and play in the player (For example, from HTML player, JWplayer and etc.).

There is two locations ( rootinstall/applications/vod/media  and  rootinstall/webroot/vod) , I am unclear of these two folders, where shoudl I keep my video and how to play it by me/others.

MY FIRST WAY

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I have kept my video.mp4 inside webroot/vod and I have edited the rtmp_sample1_manifest.f4m. And I open www.osmf.org/configurator/fmp/ (windows browser) and I open my video from there (rtmp://[myserverip]/vod/Vultures.mp4) . It keep buffering.

[root@localhost webroot]# cd vod

[root@localhost vod]# ll

total 78796

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      458 Apr 16 17:31 hds_sample1_manifest.f4m

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      432 Jul 26  2013 hls_sample1_manifest.m3u8

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     3093 Jul 26  2013 readme.htm

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      507 Apr 16 17:35 rtmp_sample1_manifest.f4m

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 13733568 Jul 26  2013 sample1_1000kbps.f4v

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 19699010 Jul 26  2013 sample1_1500kbps.f4v

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  2389780 Jul 26  2013 sample1_150kbps.f4v

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  7110864 Jul 26  2013 sample1_500kbps.f4v

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9831197 Jul 26  2013 sample1_700kbps.f4v

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 13733568 Jul 26  2013 sample2_1000kbps.f4v

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 puva puva  2063872 Jul 26  2013 testsample.flv

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 puva puva 12094693 Jan 12  2008 Vultures.mp4

[root@localhost vod]# vi rtmp_sample1_manifest.f4m

<manifest xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/f4m/1.0">

<id>Dynamic Streaming</id>

<baseURL>rtmp:/vod/</baseURL>

<mimeType>video/mp4</mimeType>

<streamType>recorded</streamType>

<media url="mp4:sample1_150kbps.f4v" bitrate="150"/>

<media url="mp4:sample1_500kbps.f4v" bitrate="500"/>

<media url="mp4:sample1_700kbps.f4v" bitrate="700"/>

<media url="mp4:sample1_1000kbps.f4v" bitrate="1000"/>

<media url="mp4:sample1_1500kbps.f4v" bitrate="1500"/>

<media url="mp4:Vultures.mp4"/>

</manifest>

MY SECOND WAY

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As I followed this tutorial (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/adobe-media-server/articles/beginner_vod_fm3.html),

I have saved the Legend.flv video into /applications/vod/media and in the flash I did add the source path and it doesn't run anyways.

I even tried to play my videos in videoplayer.html, but not sure how to play it(maybe my syntax is wrong)

Now my problem is I want to upload a video and wants to know how to play it (whether in browser or html player/videoplayer.html)

Apologies for the length desc of my problem. I am a newbie for AMS.