I tried but could not replicate issue for myself. I tried with normal Video component as well as latest FLVPlayback 2.5. I can rename and play the renamed file with without unloading the app or restarting the server. Will try to think about what can be the issue you are facing. ... View more

Let me answer it: I am not saying that's the solution , I am just asking you to try it out to see if that work, just try unloading the app first , if that does not work try restarting the server - i mean if you can afford to do. Not sure how that's supposed to work when every one of 100s of files on the server have modified file names ?? - I did not get what you meant by this , can you elaborate on what you intended to say here. Again I am not implying that restarting server is the solution , i am just asking you to try it out and let us know , if that works.I will try it out myself and let you know. ... View more

Its very simple. You just need to use Stream API on server-side to achieve this: Say you have recorded filed named "sample.flv" and want to stream it as live: So you need to have following server-side code: var myStream; application.onAppStart = function(){      myStream = Stream.get("mylive");      myStream.onStatus = function(info){           trace("Stream status:"+ info.code);      }      myStream.play("sample",0,-1,true); } Client needs to subscribe to "mylive" - ns.play("mylive",-1,-1,true); Above is bare minimum code , if you need any more help do let us know. ... View more

Can you try the same after unloading or restarting the server , see if it solves the issue. Let me know about your findings. ... View more

You can do it by injecting text using NetStream.send or Stream.send method. It depends on how are you publishing your stream but its very much possible. Basically you just need to define a handler on client side which will get triggered when it encounters the text. SO workflow would basically be like this: Publihser publishes to your FMS or you play pre-recored file as FMS(which has text inserted at time of recording) The text is injected in following format :- Stream.send("displayText","Station Number:12341234") Client end: There should be handler defined named NetStream.displayText = function(txtString){ trace("txtString:"+txtString); } This is just rough example - do let me know if you want any more info. ... View more

I think you might be running into Flash Security Issue. Do following steps: Open your client .swf or .html in Flash Player(or your browser) from another computer. Right click on .swf , it should give you pop up menu with options like Settings and Global Settings. Click on Global Settings. It will take you to page on web : http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html. You will few links :- Click on What are security settings?. Then click on Global Security Settings panel link which would be there on the page. It will show up Dialog box: Do following steps Click on Always Allow and then click on Edit Locations drop down. Click on Add Location. Browse for your client file or  add the folder where you have your client .swf or .html or you can add whole drive for now say C:\. Now close the page. Close the .swf or .html file which you are using as client. Open it back now and put IP of FMS server like mentioned in previous posts like :- rtmp://x.y.z.w/vod To answer to what you asked : IP of FMS is same as IP of of the computer where your FMS is. Please let us know if you are still running into issue. ... View more

Hi rush, There is no limit by theory on number of clients edge can support. It all depends upon your server machine i.e. hardware you are using like RAM, Processor , Network card and also other factors like your network bandwidth might also come into play. Also kind of work you are doing at server like what kind of applications are loaded would also matter. I did not get what did you mean by stream splitting , can you elaborate on that, probably then can give you my viewpoint about it. Regards ... View more

Try this: var nc; var myStream; application.onAppStart = function(){      nc = new NetConnection();      myStream = Stream.get("localstream");      nc.onStatus = function(info){                if(info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success" ){                          myStream.play("remoteStream", -1, -1, true, nc);                }      }      nc.connect("rtmp://remoteserver/live"); } I am assuming you are publishing "remotestream" on "live" app of "remoteserver" let me know if this does not work either ... View more

Hi notFish, The reason you are not finding 2.0.5 because to best of my knowledge Adobe has stopped selling 2.0. So I suppose what you can do is upgrade your existing Origin box from 2.0.5 to 3.5 and buy new 3.5 license for edge. I can definitely say its worth it , please check this link: http://store.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/software/flashmediainteractivesvr3_5/reasonstoupgrade.html - it lists down all reasons to upgrade and if I am not mistaken those are reasons from 3.0 to 3.5 - so there would be more reasons from 3.0 to 3.5 like features like Multi-Point Publish which helps live broadcasting workflow just to name one. Also from 3.0, FMS has two flavors - FMIS and FMSS so you can check which one suits your needs. Also we no more out limit like you had in 2.0.5 of 25 Mbps and 2500 connections), you can bump as much as you machine can handle gracefully. Now coming to eligibilty for upgrade you can check : http://store.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/software/flashmediainteractivesvr3_5/upgrade_eligibility.html And for pricing check below link (Choose UPG from Flash Media Server 2.x from Version drop down) http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayProduct&categoryPath=/Applications/FlashMediaInteractiveSvr&distributionMethod=UPGRADE Hope this helps ... View more

I mean if you have files like .mov or .3gp but if they adhere to MP4 Standard then FMS would be able to stream those files. But if they are not then you need to do what Viraj is saying. ... View more

Check this link : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/video/ - you might get lot of great ideas and start something off , i will think over and see if i can personally suggest you something ... View more

Absolutely. I mean you need not buy FMS for final year project , you can just use Development version and build full fledge application. I have been thinking of it for year and two now , proposing same idea to my college asking final year students to take such project. Probabaly this time when i go to my university i will do it without fail. ... View more

Hi One question here : when you tried .html from your computer, did you try it as standalone html or .html file which was hosted on some web server. Because if I am not wrong .html does not classify to be web page by default until unless its hosted on web server. Can you try this and let us know about the result. ... View more

You might find this helpful: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/fmis_largescale_deploy/fmis_largescale_deploy.pdf Storage related info is on page 2 itself Hope it helps ... View more

RAID Level 10 - But RAID is basically for redundancy & availability. As far storage requirement, like Janaki said you need to do some math = media files * size of each file + some additional buffer. As far as support 500 concurrent streams @ 700kb is concerned its more to do with your RAM capacity , again do some math here: say file size of each is "z" MB, so multiply that by z * 500. Now you need not cache all the data, as suggested to start with you cankeep FLVCACHE set to 1/4th of your RAM...would suggest to start with 8GB RAM. More the merrier it is. I know I am not on the DOT as you wanted but still ... ... View more

Hi MareleADI, I think I can explain the behaviour you see but i do agree there is a issue which you braught up. Let me divide it in two halfs, one getting wrong metadata when you immediately record and one delayed metadata as you put it. First one is a issue and Janaki has said that Eng team is looking into. Second i dont think is a issue, why you see 4-5 seconds delay in getting metadata is because it takes around 5 seconds to flush the data onto the disk. And this value is configurable. You can configure it - Search <MaxFlushTime> under <RecBuffer> tag in Server.xml.Default is 5 seconds hence that delay of 5 secs. Now you can bring it down but please read the impact of it which is mentioned in documenatation of that tag in xml file. So this is nothing strange but sort of expected behaviour. Also I tried your scenario and figured out that if use 1 sec delay , it still sets right metadata so you need not wait for 5 secs as your are waiting. Can you try below code snippet and see: (please excuse for shabby code, wrote in much hurry) var myStream; var intervalID=null; var intervalID1=null; var count=0; application.onPublish = function(c,s){ myStream = Stream.get("mp4:hello.mp4"); myStream.onStatus = function(info){ trace(new Date()+":"+info.code); if(info.code == "NetStream.Play.Start"){ intervalID1 = setInterval(startRecord,1000); } if(info.code == "NetStream.Record.Start"){ intervalID = setInterval(printMetaData,6000); } } myStream.play(s.name); } startRecord = function(){ clearInterval(intervalID1); myStream.record(); } application.onUnpublish = function(c,s){ myStream.play(false); } function printMetaData(){ count++; trace(new Date()+":In print"); if(intervalID && count==5) clearInterval(intervalID); var infoObj = Stream.getOnMetaData("mp4:hello.mp4"); for(i in infoObj){ trace(i+":"+infoObj); } } Hope this additional information is helpful for you ... View more

Hi Paul, You dont have to do much to set up room1 or room2. Try out following: Let you first publisher connect to FMS using following connection URI: rtmp://myServer/live/room1 ( live is application name and room1 is instance name) and let stream name be "live1" Let your second publisher connect to FMS using connection URI: rtmp://myServer/live/room2  ( live is application name and room2 is instance name) and let stream name be "live2" Now you have two instances up for application "live" and one stream is getting published for each instance i.e.live1 for room1 and live2 for room2. Now you can check the logs and see "room1" and "room2" getting created under "live" application log folder under <FMSRoot>/logs (where FMSRoot is your installed directory) Now open you subscriber and subscribe using following setting subscribe to live streams Subscriber 1: Connection URI: rtmp://myServer/live/room1 Stream name: live1 Subscriber 2: Connection URI: rtmp://myServer/live/room2 Stream name: live2 Hope this helps , if you want to set up VOD kind of scenario you need to place your media files under "streams/<instancename>" folder of application like streams/room1. Hope this helps. Please let me know if you need any more information. As far docs are concerned see following docs: NetConnection section of flashmediaserver_3.5_AS2LR.pdf -  page 41 (This is AS2 you can check AS3 similar section flashmediaserver_3.5_AS3LR folder) Getting Started section of flashmediaserver_3.5_dev_guide.pdf (page 6) Connecting to Server of flashmediaserver_3.5_dev_guide.pdf (page 20) Hope this helps ... View more

I shall answer your question one by one: 1. in the way to speed up connections behind proxies, is it possible to configure FMIS to support only rtmpte communications? Ans: Not that fine tuned , but you can block rtmp and say rtmps. Say now you want only rtmpte so you will need to have following entry: <DisallowedProtocols>rtmp,rtmps </DisallowedProtocols> You can find above tagin Application.xml. Above entry would allow only rtmpe and rtmpte (so here you will have to allow rtmpe as you want rtmpte - you have to block both of them or allow both of them - but that should be fine I suppose) 2.If I create many functions in the application SWF verification will be verified for each function? Ans: What do you mean by functions, if you mean AS2 or AS3 functions written i.e. code of client , then answer is NO. FMS will verify whole SWF and not individual function , but say for example you change any function in the swf and you have old swf present on server, it will fail to authenticate that swf as its changed. 3.if I have an swf (application A) that load another swf (application B) [seehttp://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.h tm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000354.html]  and application B call a FMIS under swf verification wich of the two application will be verified? Ans: Both would be verified provided they both connect to FMIS. Say if your case only application B connects to FMIS , then only application B would be verified. 4. If I configure an application to use only RTMPE all the data communication between server and client will run under RTMPE? Ans: Did not get your question right when you say data communication between server and client. When you use RTMPE , the channel used for communication between server and client would be encrypted under RTMPE. Hope i have answered your questions ... View more

No it should not work that way. It should create separate log folder for each instance. When you say you have set up live streams for different instances, what do you mean, i feel what you are doing is connecting to same application and same instance but playing different live streams , if thats the scenario you are trying what you are seeing is expected. Its only when you connect to different instance of particular application you will different log files. Example: (Connecting to same app ,same instance of app and playing different streams) Connection URL : rtmp://myserver/live Stream Name: live1 Connection URL : rtmp://myserver/live Stream name : live2 In above example you will get all log written in _definst_ folder of "live" application But say if you were running below scenario (Connecting to same app ,different instance of app and playing different streams) Connection URL : rtmp://myserver/live/room1 Stream Name: live1 Connection URL : rtmp://myserver/live/room2 Stream name : live2 In this case , you will two folders "room1" and "rrom2" under "live" application log folder. Hope this helps. ... View more

That's nice to hear , i had just two requests, one is its always better to start separate topic when you original query gets resolved so that next time when one faces same issue like you did it will help that user and second request is that can you mark question as answered , helps in tracking unanswered queries. Hope you dont mind my suggestions. ... View more

I think what jay has replied with respect to h.264 codec has answered your original query. Now coming to the current problem you are facing, i think Asa and Janaki has given correct information. I really dont know whether your problem is solved. Also I suppose Asa/Janaki does not have all information from your end. Let me try to add to what they have said but before that i would have to make some assumptions about what you want to achieve. First , are you using FLVPlayback component or your own custom player which has NetConnection and then uses NetStream to play it. I am asking this as your connection URI depends on it. If you are using FLVPlayback use URI with stream name : rtmp://serverip/myApp/mp4:streamname.mp4 If you are using NetConnection then URI should be : rtmp://serverip/myApp and then you need to specify stream name later which is passed as parameter to you NetStream object. Now are you using VOD app which comes with FMS installation or you are using Custom app Lets take both cases: VOD app : Do not disturb anything , let everything be as it as it comes with default installation. Now go to <FMS Root>/applications/vod. You will find file called Application.xml. In that xml file you will find entries under tag <Application>/<StreamManager>/<VirtualDirectory> saying following: <Streams>/;${VOD_COMMON_DIR}</Streams> <Streams>/;${VOD_DIR}</Streams> You just add one more entry : <Streams>/;D:\Fileshare\myapp\videos</Streams> So it would look like <Streams>/;${VOD_COMMON_DIR}</Streams> <Streams>/;${VOD_DIR}</Streams> <Streams>/;D:\Fileshare\myapp\videos</Streams> Now to be on safer side unload the app or restart the server. Now try connecting with URI as i have explained before. (instead of myApp use VOD as application name) Now we will take case of your custom app: Say you app name is : "myApp" Create a empty folder by name "myApp" in <FMS Root>/applications. Now you do one of various settings in order to play file from chosen folder i.e.D:\Fileshare\myapp\videos. So go to <FMS Root>/conf/_defaultRoot_/_defaultVHost_ and open vhost.xml Add entry like <Streams>/;D:\Fileshare\myapp\videos</Streams> under tag <VirtualHost>/<VirtualDirectory>. Now try connecting with URI as i have explained before. See if above explanation helps . Do let us know if there are still issues you are facing is getting this worked out. Regards SE_0208 ... View more

I think Janaki has give detailed reply to you. But I am just copy pasting my reply from other post as i think its related to this query also. So here it is: In order to receive audio or video , you need to have client which will do that work. Now what is client, client is nothing but a .swf or .html(with swf embedded) or an air app. Swf or html files with swf embedded will need Standalone Flash Player or ActiveX/Plugin for your browser respectively whereas AIR app would require AIR (runtime installed). Lets take case of .swf for our example. Now we use Flash Authoring or Flex Authoring which provides you set of API's which you can use to do various tasks like connecting to FMS and play audio/video. You write code in AS2 or AS3 using the authoring and compiled output of this authoring is nothing but .swf file. Now your .swf client has code to connect to FMS and receive audio/video/data messages from FMS. Now we need Flash Player to play this file. So when you open the swf using your browser, the Flash Player ActiveX understands whatever code it needs to execute based on actions specified when you authored your client. Now to answer your question, how does it receive audio/video. Your swf will have code which will connect to FMS specifying its name or IP address and application name where your video files are present. It will use another API to play the audio video on the connection you have established. So while authoring you use NetConnection to make connect to FMS and NetStream to play the stream. So when swf has NetConnection , Flash Player issues NetConnection call to FMS(now for NetConnection to succeed you need an ethernet or wireless connection so that you can connect to machine where FMS is installed), now connection gets established between swf and FMS. Once connection is established, swf gets notification. Once its get notification it now creates NetStream and issues NetStream.play to stream particular file from FMS.Once FMS recieves a call, it starts sending data to that swf and Flash player then renders it so that you see video and listen to the audio. Hope now you have little more idea about the workflow of how client receives the audio or video and i have not complicated it more for you. Sorry if I have done so. ... View more

Yes I agree 98% of PC has flash player installed so that's necessary but not sufficient thing to play audio or video. Janaki in her previous has given nicely drafted detailed reply . I am just adding or repeating same thing more in layman's terms. In order to receive audio or video , you need to have client which will do that work. Now what is client, client is nothing but a .swf or .html(with swf embedded) or an air app. Swf or html files with swf embedded will need Standalone Flash Player or ActiveX/Plugin for your browser respectively whereas AIR app would require AIR (runtime installed). Lets take case of .swf for our example. Now we use Flash Authoring or Flex Authoring which provides you set of API's which you can use to do various tasks like connecting to FMS and play audio/video. You write code in AS2 or AS3 using the authoring and compiled output of this authoring is nothing but .swf file. Now your .swf client has code to connect to FMS and receive audio/video/data messages from FMS. Now we need Flash Player to play this file. So when you open the swf using your browser, the Flash Player ActiveX understands whatever code it needs to execute based on actions specified when you authored your client. Now to answer your question, how does it receive audio/video. Your swf will have code which will connect to FMS specifying its name or IP address and application name where your video files are present. It will use another API to play the audio video on the connection you have established. So while authoring you use NetConnection to make connect to FMS and NetStream to play the stream. So when swf has NetConnection , Flash Player issues NetConnection call to FMS(now for NetConnection to succeed you need an ethernet or wireless connection so that you can connect to machine where FMS is installed), now connection gets established between swf and FMS. Once connection is established, swf gets notification. Once its get notification it now creates NetStream and issues NetStream.play to stream particular file from FMS.Once FMS recieves a call, it starts sending data to that swf and Flash player then renders it so that you see video and listen to the audio. Hope now you have little more idea about the workflow of how client receives the audio or video and i have not complicated it more for you. Sorry if I have done so. ... View more

Yes its very much possible. What you need to do is place all your files on server and play it via server-side stream. You can go through FMS documentation and you should be able to get it work. However i will tell you briefly here how to go about it. Create an application folder , under applications directory of FMS. Let us name it as "test". Create a folder called "streams" under "test" and then under "streams" create "room" folder. So structure would be as follows : <FMS installation directory>/applications/streams/room. Now place all your static content here , say you place one.mp4,two.mp4,three.mp4. Now you want to give effect of live stream. Create a file called main.asc under "test" folder. Write below code in main.asc: var mylivestream; application.onAppStart = function(){      mylivestream = Stream.get("mp4:livestream.mp4");      mylivestream.play("mp4:one.mp4",0,-1,true);      mylivestream.play("mp4:two.mp4",0,-1,false);      mylivestream.play("mp4:three.mp4",0,-1,false); } Above code would play all three static content one after other. Subscriber client would have to subscribe in following manner: ns.play("mp4:livestream.mp4",-1,-1) Please note that above code is sample code and not the most optimal or correct and will need tweaking depending on what is your requirement. Hope this helps ... View more

Have you configured your host.ini on dvrcast_edge properly? The entry should be as follows: See if this works ... View more

Following are the steps do get it running: 1. Install your 3.5 server on Windows 2003 machine. (i suppose this is already done) 2. Install FMLE on your Windows XP (I suppose this is already done) 3. You can open four instances of FMLE so that you can select all four video camera , i mean single FMLE will have one video camera as source. 4. Create a Flash Client (lets name it viewer.html) which you will host so that customers can view live video( or you can use VideoPlayer which comes with FMS installation) 5. Host the Flash Client on your web server , FMS comes with its own Apache Web Server (you will have to configure it so that it can allow hosting of your client) 6. Now open all four instances of FMLE (which is taking source from diff video camera's) and publish it to "live" application of FMS ( "live" comes with installation). You just need to put "rtmp://<Server-IP>/live" as FMS URL and put valid stream name and click on Start Publish. So you can publish four streams all by different names say "livestream1" will stream feed from one camera, "livestream2" will stream feed from second camera and so on. 7. Now end customer will access your Flash Client viewer.html using browser and viewer.html will connect to same "live" application and subscribe to all four steams and display it using video component. In this way end user will be able to view all 4 live streams. Its very simple steps process using FMS , i don't know how easy or difficult it is using other servers. ... View more

You basically need to create a Flash Client which will talk to FMS for getting stream content. Writing such client is very simple. Once you have done that you can host your Flash Client on your webserver. You will use FMLE to publish to FMS, flash client will connect to FMS and your customer will access your Flash Client through any browser by putting correct URL of your webserver and thus they will be able to view whatever is getting published. I have just given you description in layman's terms. If you want more details do let me know but this will make you understand how the workflow is. ... View more

Yes very much. You just need to follow proper steps in order to activate SWF Verification and you should be able to use it. There is no link of streaming and SWF Verification per se. ... View more