I am new to FCS. I want to stream videos (true streaming not progresive
downloading).

To get started I'm using the media playback component.

Is it possible to use rtmp with this component. I've seen documentation on the
macromedia site that says this is possible but I can't get it to work.

I have my flv file on the server in applications/streams/video

for the URL in the component I have:
rtmp://myDomain/streams/video/vid_name.flv

Any help would be greatly appreciated. One of the main reasons I got FCS was
to have the ability to truly stream video but I can't seem to get it working.
Thanks

Have you tried using the standard FSC folder location.

In the applications root folder:
nameApplication\streams\_definst_\vid_name.flv

After that try accessing the file using the following URL:
rtmp://myDomain/vid_name.flv

That works for me. I'm currently trying the samething but with live streams
instead.
Doesn't seem to be working though.

Great, thanks a lot. I actually got the video to play, although the component
doesn't work as smoothly as I woul have liked.

I'm using the dev version of FCS. Is there some kind of documentation on
standard practices to use with regards to file structure on FCS? How did you
know to use the structure:
nameApplication\streams\_definst_\vid_name.flv

Thanks for the help

I've read it in the forum somewhere last week and I think its in the FlashCom
documentation (either managing or developing I'm really not sure).

And the fact that I had a similar problem this week, basicly FSC couldn't find
my file and gave back an invalid tincan error object. So I searched it up in
the forums and found the answer.

BTW you can change the location in either vHost.xml file (which allows you to
use virtual directory) or application.xml