Our school's server uses TurboLinux Server 10. Although this is not a supported OS for FMS, has anyone been able to run FMS 2 on TurboLinux or any other Linux distros? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chris ...more >>

I've set-up the Flash Media Server and downloaded the Macromedia examples to test it. However they never seem to connect. I presume they are already set to connect to my localhost. I made sure I started an instance of each app for testing and tried both the default instance name and 'FlashCom...more >>

Hi all, I have a question. I have made a movie with the sample files from Flash com. I put a webcam broadcast window, a send back webcam window and a chat all in one file. Now, when a user enters the page, he will need to log-in to the chat console (connected to for example rmtp:ip:cha...more >>

I've read that in order to use FLV Playback and FMS2 you need to have an smil.xml file. I have the sample main.asc from Flash 8 directory, and smil.xml in my_app/script directory. And I'm calling the smil.xml in the contentPath of FLV Playback. Nothing happens. Do I have make net connection, ...more >>

Thank you for viewing this post, any information is greatly appreciated. When trying to connect to my flv file via rtmp and F8 components, I get a "failed to load" message. I have tried just about everything. The funny thing is in the administration console it picks it up as a connection, b...more >>

Using Flash 8 I imported a video clip and compilied it as a FLV file and it's twice the size of the original WMV file. Any thoughts as to why? I know there must be some overhead for the "skin" but I need to keep my FLV file close to the original file size of the WMV .. if not smaller. ...more >>

Hello there... Thanks for taking a look at this posting. Here's what I want to know... Is this possible? I'm trying to make a multiplayer bomberman game with Flash MX 2004 Pro. My goal is to upload the .swf file to my free www.freewebs.com account and to have the file communicate wit...more >>

Hi, i'm a newbie in this world, i'm trying the trial version of FCS and i need to know how to make a connection pear to pear, if it is possible or not? I bought a book of flash communication server MX and there says that ic can do connections one to one and one to many, what does this mean. ...more >>

I'm just starting to try to figure out the Flash Server. Out IT staff installed FCS 1.5 and then upgraded to FMS 2. The IP address they gave me connects me to the FCS MX instead of the FMS admin panel. What do I have to do to get the IP address to connect to the FMS instead of the MX versio...more >>

Okay, I would like to find out about webservers... large servers... eg, the sort of webservers that ebay, or hotmail etc use.. the kinds of servers that have 1000's of users simultaneously viewing pages. Does anyone have any good information? Thinking big, I would like to find a se...more >>

Will the Developer Edition allow you to stream flv's to people outside your network? I have a developer edition set up on a public IP address while we wait to obtain a full license. It is up there purely for a client review. Anyway, nobody can seem to get the videos to stream. What gives? ...more >>

:music; Hi Guys Previosly I was a flash Designer.....Now I m in programming..... So welcome me for in the new world........more >>

Can anyone recommend some affordable Flash Video Streaming services that would successfully stream 2-3 minute video shorts I've been using Load SWF for this 2-3 minute shorts and I know this is asking for trouble please advise, thanks ...more >>

I'm a total newbie here so I appreciate any help. We just installed FMS and would like to use it for streaming videos. I've researched and found nothing in layman's terms on what to do next so we can start uploading videos and mp3 for streaming. Any links regarding this matter is very much app...more >>

We are using the FLV playback component to play streaming FLVs from Flash media server. The first FLV plays fine but any subsequent FLV fails to play. We have tested with the simplest approach by copying the code from Flash help (see below): We are using the FLV playback component to play ...more >>

Anyone here experience with running Flashmedia server on Fedora Core 2? ...more >>

Im really new to FMS and have installed it but im slightly confused as to what i enter into the Server address section when loging in! or where i find my server address - is it my IP address, as ive tried this with no success! Hope i havent been too dumb here and missed the obvious! Hope ...more >>

:(I 'm trying to take an class online for TABC learn to serve The program is telling me I need to download Flash 8 to view a video. I'm sorry to say I don't know how to make it work Please can someone help me???????? I've alredy paid for the course twice it wont let me re-registar with another...more >>

Is there any way to output a .flv locally after you record it (user browser cache) or as a share object on a users machine, then grab that same flv file and export it into FMS applications directory? ...more >>

hello, is there anyway to adjust streams as serverside? i publish a good video live stream, but some of clients are connected as dialup, and some are Lan, i want if client has Lan connection, see a high quality video, and if client connected as dialup, see a low quality video. anyone ca...more >>

HI, I am building an app where I only want the person to access it unless another user(admin) is already present. If not, I want it to go to a particular frame in the movie that says "the person is not available". I tried this using application.onConnect = function(client ){ if (a...more >>

I have installed and started FMS2 on XP Pro SP2. AppServ is also installed and running on the same PC. I want to stream FLVs from the FMS server to client SWFs. Using the management console, I can see that my SWFs can connect to the server but data is not being streamed - bandwidth is 0...more >>

Hy . I'm having a problem to export a .jpg image from a frame of a video that display a webcam sreaming . The image must be uploaded to a server . It is possible to create and export this image ? ...more >>

Using flash media server, i want to convert the "mpeg, windows media, flash, avi, quicktime, real,mov, etc" in to flash streaming format i.e FLV, MP3, SWF Our user will upload the videos through an application to our server. Do you know any thing through which we can convert these video;s...more >>

Hi, Is it not possible to do streaming audio or audio/video between two Flash clients without going through FCS? Or, are there alternatives to FCS? It's just soooo expensive. Thanks, Dan...more >>

Does anyone know of a way to simultaneously record the streams of 2 users who are having a web chat on my FMS video chat room? The streams have to go from each user to the server before being broadcast back out to all users so I want to capture that video stream at the same time as broadca...more >>

I am little confused with the terminology FCS And FMS, I cant see which are the differences....more >>

On the server side actionscript of my application can I use OO actionscript 2.0? like in my main.asc can I use my defined objects in functions like application.onAppStart() ? If so .. is there a drawback to this? ... I'm relatively new to flash .. and coming from a good knowledge of OOP so tha...more >>

Just bought a new license, installed the 2.01 version, but whatever profile I choose it keeps 150/unlimited. If I am correctly, I only need the choose a profile in the fms.ini like: SERVER.ACTIVE_PROFILE = 1000-40.pro (or 2500-25.pro or 150.pro) SERVER.LICENSEINFO = FMD200-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXX...more >>

Hi all, I am eager to work with fcs but I am stuck at the start! I have uploaded the installation file in ftp. location from root /home/name It is uploaded as a file called FlashMediaServer2.tar.gz But when I refresh the directory, it is called FlashMediaServer2.tar (so without the ...more >>

We are running Flash Media Server that is currently getting about 10-20 concurrent hits on a 24hr / 7 day basis. Every 2-3 weeks the Flash Media Server stops responding. Not even the Admin app works. There is NOTHING in the Server logs apart from in the access logs showing "Session Connec...more >>

I have a c++ function that grabs webcam video and manipulates the video, detects faces and other things. Im trying to send that new video to flash so i can stream it live like a normal stream. I have already set up regular live streaming, but Im not sure how to 'export' my video and have flash...more >>

I have an application that captures live video (from my webcam) and stores FLV files on server. I want to append a short FLV file (ie: an ad for example) to the end of those videos. How would you do this? I wanted to hear some ideas. Thanks, CFlannagan ...more >>

I converted an AVI to FLV in the encoder. The resulsting file only opens a blank flash 8 player. I can't even get it to play within the flash app. What am I doing wrong???? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Does anyone knows when FMS Dynamo is about to be released? The interim license is valid till the 21th of feb so there are only 5 days left. I suppose that the current 2.0 Pro license is also valid for 2.01 Dynamo, but will it also be possible to choose from the 3 profiles with a 2.0 Licens...more >>

Randomly multiple times everyday, FMS will start showing cert popups, asking the user to accept the cert, a restart fixes this. But I cant constanly restart the server every 20 minutes. Does anyone know what might becausing this? Its not setup to use anything with SSL or anything of the ...more >>

has anyone tried to install FMS on SuSE 10 ? after successfully "./installFMS -platformWarnOnly" the server crashes imediatly after start, only with the following message (in var/log/messages): "myhost su: (to root) myusername on /dev/pts/6" thanx aci ...more >>

I need help to identify if IP cameras (ex. Sony SNC-RX550) can be used as a source for media for live streaming in Flash Media Server 2...more >>

Hi folks, I'm having a bunch of problems. First of all, the sample applications I downloaded don't seem to be working--I've tried a bunch, like the tutorial_textchat and tutorial_hello, but I get nothing. Secondly, and this may be related to the first or not, I'm seeing these errors i...more >>

I'm using LoadVars to pass data from the Media Server in main.asc, to a PHP page that then places it in my database. However, I am seeing some strange results when the data gets to my PHP page. For instance the dash (-) character is coming an E; periods (F), parenthesis (@A) and variables wi...more >>

I have a Flash Communication Server running 1.5 with personal 50 user connections and 1.0mphs ceiling. My Flash Com server seems to be dumping users off when there bandwidth exceeds around 100 or 110kps. Even when there is only one user connected streaming this. I have only found that it do...more >>

I am testing flash video server and I have few questions concerning it: 1) Can I make links straight to a video file located on the server without first including the video file to a html page or a flaxh application? This way publishing videos would be as simple as possible. 2) What wo...more >>

Hi, i just installed the server and am trying to use it now, i use the standard settings for media server, my router is configured to let traffic through port 1935 pass to my local port 1935 , port 80 to local 80. But im confused now how do i put up a simple site on the media server, or eg u...more >>

are there any step-by-step tutorials on setting up an fms2 server to stream an on-demand FLV clip, especially geared towards someone who has no experience with actionscript or flash but plenty of experience setting up streaming media servers? ...more >>

Hello, Is there any way to take an existing FLV file (the source is an FLV file that was saved during a live stream) and edit it using Premiere or any other similar program? I'm finding many ways to encode to FLV with existing source files that are not FLV but I cannot find any way to edi...more >>

I have the developer addition of Flash Media Server 2 installed on my local WinXP SP-2 PC and on a dedicated Win 2003 server. I tried the simple process of using Dreamweaver 8 to add the Flash video file to the page and have added the appropriate files (.flv & .asc to the application folder of...more >>

Hi, I am putitng together a simple exhibit using a USB microscope to display a live picture on a laptop. The USB microscope works just like a web cam, with the same kind of video drivers etc (I think it used twain drivers?). I want to display the live video within a Flash executable on th...more >>

is it possibel to make a game with just macromedia proffestinal 8...more >>

I have a new install of Fedore Core 4 (yes I know it's not officially supported) and I've installed Flash Media Server Trial version and it says that everything is successful and that the server is starting and yet there are no processes that indicate this at all. No applications work with th...more >>

I was looking at the components that Adobe/Macromedia has made available and I am a little disappointed. I am normally a Actionscript 2.0 all-the-way kind of developer. Before I start converting the components to AS2, I was wondering if there is a specific reason why AS1 prototyping was be...more >>