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November 13, 2008
Question

Videos from networkpath

  • November 13, 2008
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Hi, I am in a deep trouble.I had made a video player, and that streams FLV files from a Flash Media Server.When I put the videos in the application folder(VOD) the player is working.And I am able to change the location of the videos to local drives.But I want to know that what should I do to get the videos from a mapped networkdrive.Because all of my recorded videos are nw in a networkdrive.
Please help me?
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    squecuec
    Participating Frequently
    November 14, 2008
    hi, today I looked further for this.
    read this doc
    http://livedocs.adobe.com/flashmediaserver/3.0/docs/help.html?content=03_configtasks_35.html
    at Adobe Flash Media Server Configuration and Administration Guide / Configuring the server / Configuring content storage /Mapping Directories to
    network drives

    actually FMS is running as a local system account. So, change its log on account to one which has network access. Go to run-> services.msc.
    open the properties for flash media server service & flash media administrator service and change the log on account.

    after this it would probably start working for you also.
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    Hemadri_info
    Participant
    November 16, 2008
    Thanks a lot. After long long searching, got this from your above one line to change services.msc worked for me.. REALLY THANKS A LOT. I Will publish this to make it useful for every one. There is no doc/forum which clearly tells what access you need to acess the UNC path.
    webqaflash
    webqaflashAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 13, 2008
    yes, I think so.For local directory it is working but not for mapped networkdrive.
    I think the problem with the permission.
    I solved by copying the videos to the localdrives.
    thanks for you looking into this.
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    squecuec
    Participating Frequently
    November 13, 2008
    though i never used earlier it. today i tried to do that using the sample VOD application. Adding virtual directory in the application.xml contained in the VOD app directory, I was able to have files located at anyplace on local drive but on network it was failing.
    if i place file on my own computer shared folder and access it
    \\squecuec\shared\sample.flv then it is able to do that. but if on some other place it was failing. so it seems something is there with access permission.
    webqaflash
    webqaflashAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 13, 2008
    Thanks for your reply.
    Do you have any experience with this case?
    I am asking because,before i posting this here ,tried some of the methods
    like you said.ie;changing the virtualdirectory,changing the AppsDir etc. But failed.
    Thanks
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    squecuec
    Participating Frequently
    November 13, 2008
    in this case you have to use virtual directory. in the application.xml, there is tag for virtualdirectory by which you can configure the mapping for a particular application.
    like this
    <virtualdirectory> stream1; \\minenetworkDrive\shared\stream1</Virtualdirectory>

    you can specify many such mappings.
    you can specify these mapping in vhost.xml also to have these settings for all application in that vhost.

    For more info go through docs of flash media server on internet. search for virtual directory.
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