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 >>