I?m new to Flash Communication Server and using Flash Video. I?m looking for some tutorials or books that can walk me through the process...beginning to end and everything in between. I?m very proficient with Action Script and HTML, just not anything with servers. Any help is greatly appr...more >>

Hi , I am new to Flash, I am using Flash a client and Flash communication server on server side. is there any way to know the who all clients are currently sreaming a video form the Flash communucation Server? can any body can give a sample application? Please help Thanks and Reg...more >>

Hi, I am new to Flash and have been provided this requirement from my client. The client wants to create an application that will capture video using WebCam. This Video then needs to be uploaded on the web server (IIS 6.0, Windows 2003 server) where Flash Communication Server will be insta...more >>

Ok, Flash 7 is great and all . Ok it's really great. But my web site only requires users to have the Flash 6 player. All the streaming video examples and tutorials I'm seeing for the Flash Comm Server on the Macromedia site use the NetConnection class and therefore only work in Flash 7. Ho...more >>

Hi everyone, Need some assistence, I have a file called main.asc on my windows 2003 server with flash communication server 1.5 pro version of course ;-)) I cant figure out how i alter this line so it should work .... ***************************************************************...more >>

HI to everibody, I have installed FCS on a fedora linux server with -platformWarnOnly setting. Everithing works fine. I run the admin panel, and I starts well all the applications but when I try to stream an FLV the server accept the connection, tell to my application the time and how lo...more >>

I would have posted this directly on Influxis.com but I can't register on their boards. Anyway, having looked at the video conferencing application that comes with Flash Com Server and have installed it on my own http://www.g1media.co.uk/videoconf.asp but I would like to see the admin fa...more >>

I am having trouble installing the flash communication server on my mac, I have flash mx 2004 professional but when i run the installer it searches my computer and sais "An installation of Macromedia Flash MX could not be found. Installation canceled." does anyone have a solution to this probl...more >>

Here is my question ? The most valuable component of Real Media & Windows Media is that multiple Bitrates can be built into the same file. (SureStream & IntelleStream) The player selects the speed it thinks best and starts out with that speed. Should the Bandwith available increase or decr...more >>

Hi, I just tried to run first example of flash communication server, which is called doc_connect.fla, and i'm getting the following error: **Warning** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Actions, frame=1:Line 8: Case-insensitive identifier 'netConnection' will obscure built-in object 'NetConnection'. ...more >>

Does anyone have any ideas for how to support a whisper mode in the FCS chat component? I want individual chat users to be able to send messages to individual, selected users. In most chat rooms, this is referred to as a 'whisper mode'. Help??? ...more >>

Flash Communication Server Best Practices (Peldi's Coding Cafe Macrochat) Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM US/Eastern Join Macromedia's Senior Software Engineer Peldi Guilizzoni for a live disucssion on Flash Communication Server Best Practices. Programming Flash Communication Ser...more >>

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I was working on providing solutions for video conference at broadband through flash communication server 1.5 update applied. I was not able to choose proper setting to make video to be smooth and good quality. Whenever I tried to prevent lagging behind of video, quality goes down, otherwise v...more >>

Hi. I have made an application using Flash MX 2004 and FlashCom where the user can post voicemessages from using their microphone and send them to their friends. It works well when the recording is short. An .flv is generated, but when the reording is longer than 6-8 seconds, the nothing ...more >>

Hi, Im starting this thread in hope to get some answers to my questions. I`m monitoring some applications on our server and been wondering why there is a big differences in the measures I get with getServerStats and the total of my measures for all getAppStats!? My Flash communication appli...more >>

Does anyone know of any software currently on the market that can successfully load (performance) test a Flash Communication Server?...more >>

Greetings. I'm trying to get the live chat module of FuseTalk to function. It's supposed to use FCS, which we are currently using to stream video (about a gig per day.) The FuseTalk stuff is hosted on a CF server, and I can't get it to talk with the FCS server. The FuseTalk folks say that ...more >>

i have recently installed the flash communication server on a box running win2003 server. ive tried (3) browsers and they all have the same problem. it appears that admin.swf, isnt adding a file:/// prefic to the unc, causing the browser to recognize c as a protocol rather than part of the ...more >>

Ok, Can you guys do me a favour please? Have a look at http://www.g1media.co.uk/project_details.asp?ID=1 in IE and then look at it again in Firefox...I just can't get the video playing inside Firefox. I have the latest version of Flash player installed on both browsers so not sure...more >>

I'm not sure which is the best way for the following: Scenario: I have 4 cams, with 8 users/viewers. The 4 cams I want to be in a specific position (depending on user) and want the 4 cams to auto start depending on user. This is what I have come across: video conference auto creates a v...more >>

Are there any step by step instructions on how to cluster MX servers? I'm actually looking on how to setup the replication so that the shared app can be replicated to our other MX server. Thanks Brad ...more >>

Hello, I developed a formular based MX 2004 Professional application (product calculator) with at the moment 10 forms, 5 DataSets an a lot of controls on each page. Up to yesterday the NetConnection Debugger worked with my app. Now it'll only work if I remove some Formulars. But so I can...more >>

It is said that the SSA (Server Side Actionscript) follows the ECMAScript specs. However it does not say much more than that. And even though, reference exists, which in details describes Camera, NetConnection, NetStream and other classes to use with FlashCom programming, things present like S...more >>

Hello...newbie here... I would like to implement the http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flashcom/articles/first_comm_app.html application on a Redhat/Unix-based shared webhost server for my website. I would like to try Flash MX and Flash Comm Server before purchasing. Both tutorials r...more >>

Hey I'm writing a ColdFusion application that will handle a number of streaming formats (flv, wmv, mov, rm) and part of the application will allow users to upload their own videos to stream, manage them and delete them if required. I've run into a problem with my 'flv' files. If the fi...more >>

OK, so I've downloaded the latest FCOM Server.. I've installed it, and installed the latest updater. Running ./fcserver seems to work fine, in that I can now telnet myserver 1935 and it's comes back to me with Trying XXX.XXX.XXX... Connected to myserver. Escape character is '^]'. ...more >>

Can anyone give me some advice or direction on running FCS on a Windows Server or Linux Server. I'm curious as to performance differences, stability? Thank you John Perona jperona@gmail.com...more >>

Does anyone have any good strategies on reducing the latency of live broadcasts? For example, if I have 2 video conference windows going, whats the best way to reduce the latency between the client to the server to the client. I'd imagine if you had multiple servers, and you connect each use...more >>

Hi, I've been sniffing the code of the Flogger application that is given by macromedia, and i've wondered how the calculations for the Total bytes in and Total bytes out are calculated. I understand quite a lot how the application works, and been working on some deviated version of my own. T...more >>