I have an application for a poker game which works perfectly in Firefox 1.5 and 2.0, however in IE7 (not too sure about IE6 thou) there is a serious problem. I shall explain.. User logs in. Opens a popup of the game which is just a php script which loads in the SWF. SWF successfully connec...more >>

:sad; Hi anyone, http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_player.html What are the changes i have to do in the main.asc file. plz anyone help me......more >>

i have a new windows server dedicated to flash server 2.0 do any of the experts know what the EXACT path that would be placed in the contentpath field to be able to stream a video? so far with a test, i have only been able to view a AVESQ14swf and test.html file ONLY on the server by ins...more >>

Hello all, due to the fact that I have not been able to publish in "flash 8" using the default FMS components (I get errors and can only publish for flash 6), I was wondering if anyone can tell me (or maybe show me a tutorial if there is any) on how to broadcast and recieve a webcam without us...more >>

Can I programatically obtain the kind of performance stats you see in the management interface, e.g. get a count of number of connections, number of active streams etc. We use tools like munin and nagios for server tracking, I'd like to integrate FMS into this. Can anyone recommend the...more >>

I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4) on a dedicated server. I have followed installation instructions to the T (tried the PDF documentation way, 2 or 3 different ways from these forums, and on several google sites) and the installation works 100%. The server and admin server are appara...more >>

I am running the developer version on a Window's XP Computer. When I started FMS up today I was not able to load any applications. I noticed that the ?Flash Media Server (FMS)? Service keeps stopping on its own. I go into "Services" and start it manually but every time that I attempt to sta...more >>

I'm converting an .avi to a .flv and am looking to third parties for encoding. The Flash 8 Video Encoder does not provide enough options to create a high quality .flv. So far I've tried Flix Pro, Swish, Turbine, Riva, Allock and Sorenson Squeeze. I have found that Sorenson Squeeze seems to ...more >>

i am building a site that incorporates Flash streaming video. i will host the site on my own server but i need an isp specializing in streaming flash video to host the flv content. who should i use and about how much is it? i have tried to contact vital stream a number of times and never ha...more >>

hi all, When capturing a webcam feed using FMS - is there any loss of information during the upload process? If my client has a limited uplink (for instance a poor DSL uplink bandwidth) - does the resulting FLV file will suffer from lost frames etc.? (is RTMP reliable or lossy) If...more >>

Hello, I'm subscribed to an e-learning platform that uses the Breeze software for streaming live "classroom sessions". I would like to store these live sessions on my computer for later reviews, is it possible to do that? I can figure out the URL of the flash player that shows the presentati...more >>

Will FMS2 run on Red Hat Fedora Core 4? Or do you need Red Hat Enterprise?...more >>

Hello! I have a problem. I installed FMS2, and downloaded sample apps from the devcenter. I'm running Microsoft IIS and I can access http://myip/fms and go to any applications, the work just fine, I can see video. Now I try to use another computer on the network, I access the same URL, I...more >>

Hi, I would like to know if in FMS2 is possible to record and broadcast at the same time. I want to record it in the server disk. Thanks...more >>

1. FMS is installed on a P4 3 Ghz cpu and 4 Gb memory 2. FMS is running in the 'application-scope' ; each application (main.asc) has it's own core 3. both applications create +/- 30-60 instances (lets name them chat-rooms) and those get abandoned when they are empty (they get removed by the...more >>

[Q]function sendMsg(s) { trace(s); } application.onConnect = function() { setInterval(sendMsg, 1000, "test"); }[/Q] When using code like that, setInterval can't reach sendMsg()... I know this seems like an incredibly newbie question... but how do I make it work? I can't seem to ...more >>

Hello! I currently work on a supervision- and video-conference software with live-video based on flash player 8/9 and FMS2. For this purpose i planned to realize an overview and a fullscreen-view. Now I got this problem: I want to stream a full-size video to the FMS and then publish th...more >>

Hi all, I'm researching ways to include Close Caption text with our streaming videos. I found this tool http://www.hisoftware.com/hmccflash2004/HMCC-FLashTutorial.htm#WhyClosedCaptions that seems easy to use but before investing in it I was wondering if there is another ''fairly easy'' ...more >>

Installation problem on Fedora core 4 i have install start at unzip tar.gz and tar -xf .... now i have run ./installFMS it show [b]./fmsini: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shar ed object file: No such file or directory ERROR: Your are running the Mac...more >>

hi all; can i view a live video stream produced by windows media encoder? i mean there is a server broadcasting video and web clients with flash player. .....more >>

Anyone know how to get the client IP address? As part of the authentication/stats/logging system, we'd like to have all IPs stored in the database... but I can't for the life of me find out how to get it (searching the flash docs returned nothing, and google keeps bringing up people asking...more >>

In our application we stream live audio/video images of an event and record them for later review and playback. The power supply at our source locations is not reliable, and even with UPSs we run into difficulties where a video stream will be disrupted. Once we have power restored, we wan...more >>

Can anyone please tell me what is the largest live video possible . Is a 500 x 500 format possible with rather good resolution. Thanks for answering...more >>

Hello, Does anyone know of a way to authenticate users that are accessing streams on the Flash Media Server. I read something about LDAP and database authentication but it looks like I have to fork off extra cash to have this authentication "product" which should have come with my purchased ...more >>

:frown; I have been given a research task by my boss. I am NOT (yet) an experienced FMS programmer, and I have been tasked with finding out how to do the following. We need to collect live audio/video and screen capture data from numerous distributed sources all recording at the same ti...more >>

hi all; i just started with flash video stuff. is there any way to stream video via p2p like msn, skype, etc?, just using fms as a gateway or sth. like it. i see fms is a client-server model. it's totally useless for me due to high bandwitdh usage prices. thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I'm using http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashcom/articles/broadcast_receiver.html and everything seems to work ok: I can connect to my FMS2 and I can start the streaming, but nothing is displayed, although the security popup is display and I select the camera. I've tried using a Cano...more >>

I know I'm opening a can of worms here, but does anyone know of a comparison between Flash Media Server running on Windows 2003 and Redhat AS 4.0 (64 bit)? We are looking at getting an environment put together and would like to hear pros and cons for each. I'm interested in such things as st...more >>

All: Operating a low traffic FMS (<50 concurrent connections) whose sole task in life is to accept incoming FLV audio streams and record them to disk. The store it places these on is mounted to a NetApp FAS3020C via NFS v2. The disks are a 150 gig fiberchannel raid6 array connected via g...more >>

Hi all, Fairly new to ActioniScript (2). I like the slider bar found below the video on this Adobe page http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/. I am using a video object (not the FLVPlayback) and I'm looking for code to create this kind of slider bar. Any help would be greatly...more >>

Hey friends.. im a total newbie to Flash Media server.. i just started using this for the past 2 days..so, heres the problem im facing..i ve a simpleConnect component and a connectionlight component on my stage and i connect both of em..the connectionlight goes green when i test movie in flash...more >>

Hi guys, seems I can connect ok locally but not from the internet. rtmp:/localhost/appname works great but when I try rtmp://ip/appname it does not, my firewall and router firewall have been disabled but still no luck. any ideas? thanks ...more >>

My company just installed FMS2 on a Windows server solely for the delivery of Flash video into Captivate 2 training modules (it uses the Flash flv play back component). I can assign the content path to the flv as I import it into Captivate. I have been practicing with my local host and the...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to stream an FLV from FMS to a MediaDisplay component for playback? I know this can be done with the Video Object and with the FLVPlayback component. I explored the MediaDisplay class and it looks like it has the capability but I cannot find documentation on how to ...more >>

Can one use the Flash Media Server to share a window that one is currently working on with everyone so that everyone could see (through the Web)? If yes, how can we do it?...more >>

Ya, I'm sure there are other topics about this, but i have no time to look or be very neat right now. I have made a flash video for an assignment but I don't know what to do to change the file type from the generic one to the type id be able to play on a DVD player instructions in the most...more >>

Hi, I'm not sure if this is a bug related to version 2.0.1 but if we enable "app" scope in Application.xml (Application.xml -> Process -> Scope) then we cannot see the amount of connected clients in the FMS console anymore for SOME applications. We have 2 applications running (each ins...more >>

Hello, I am streaming an FLV from FMS. There seems to be a delay from when the buffering period ends and when the FLV begins playback. I know that 'playing' state doesn't fire automatically when the FLV begins playback, but I can't figure out why there is a delay in between the buffer peri...more >>

Hi all, I'm having some nasty project ahead of me and customer is asking for a drawing board chat feature besides all features that normally goes with AV chat. So, my question is, does anybody have any expirience with this? Just to keep me from going in wrong way:) I know there is a...more >>

I just recently updated my site (ryanturri.com) with a commercial I made ("Drive the Dream"). The site is all flash and for the videos I am using Flash (flv) video for my video files. (I used Flash 8 to build the site and Dreamweaver to upload the files). I created a scene and put buttons t...more >>

Hello, I have a Flash application which i want to expand with a sort of Helpdesk feature. What i want is that when the user pressed the button "help me" that an employee of the helpdesk can join in and the the Flash application exectly as how the client sees it. But, do i have to rebuild...more >>

I followed the examples and created a live video stream test app. It works perfectly when everything is on one machine, meaning the FMS and tomcat are both on the same machine. But, when I try to access it from another machine, the other machine cannot see the live stream. I did some resear...more >>

How do I change and combine the following .as file and .fla file into a single ..fla....i've tried various ways but none of them seem to work....any help will be appriciated. I have a listbox movie clip with an instance name of people_lb in the .fla and the movie clips name is SimpleChat...more >>

Hi all, I have not been able to make the Sample_Videoconference file work when I publish for Flash 8 (the original file publishes to Flash6). Can anyone please tell me how I can do this? Thanks so much in advance, Matthew ...more >>

Is there a quick step by step guide to publishing an FLV Video for streaming download? ...more >>

Is there a way to save a video file to the local users machine using FMS? How about take several video clips and appending them into one clip using FMS? Thanks...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to install FMS on CentOS, but I can never really get past the initial attempt. I immediately get a "os not supported" message and it's a game over. Anyone has any experience with this OS? ...more >>

As indicated by the ongoing discussion, this issue can have different causes - can you describe your application a little bit? How many users are connecting? What kind of license do you have? Do you have server-side code? If yes, what is it doing? On what OS are you running? What's the e...more >>

I have FMS installed on a RHE 3 vps. The admin and edge servers runs fine. netstat shows ports 1111 and 1935 are listening. Problem is, in the process list fmscore always comes up [defunct]. When I look at var/logs/messages the only thing that I can see that could be causing problems is : ...more >>

Hi all. Anybody has made a performance study comparing these two technologies, FMS and FCS? I want to migrate from FCS to FMS, but I?ve to comprove the better performance to my boss. Thanks a lot. ...more >>