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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, but on my end
nothing registers. The FMS server is located as a stand-alone server where its
only function is to run FMS. Its run on a W2k3 server. I am running a separate
apache web server for the swf files.

I have dug for hours on this issue and have found very little documentation on
this, and the documentation that I have found seems bloated, hard to read and
understand, and doesn't pertain to my simple issues.

Anyhow, any help would really be nice. I've already gone through 1 keyboard
today.

Thanks.

JayCharles,
Thank you for your response. The two files are named correctly. I triple
checked that. I have seen in sample applications a folder structure like this:
applications>streams>_definst. I have placed the flv files in each folder with
the same result.

BTW, I checked out your site, and tried out the video post card deal. It
wasn't working for me. Very cool though. I will be trying something like that
soon on a project that I am working on.

Anyhow, any other suggestions or questions?

Hmm... are you using the communication components, or one of the flv playback
components? I don't use MM's prebuilt components often, but I seem to remember
readng something about the FLV playback component requiring a SMIL file.

About the downtime on my e-card app... I was making some changes to my
development server and it was down for a while this evening. It should be
working properly now.

Read this: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=d244749e
I tried this method handreds times. Even I correct some tag closing in the
simil exemple. Anyone seems to work and I wonder if there is a real method to
streaming video via FLVPlayback.

Folok -
I did get it to work finally - even using the FLV playback component. I
didn't even use the SMIL file which is weird. You also might try the flvplayer
( there are a few) http://www.peldi.com/blog/archives/flvplayer/index.html.
You should also download this test app, and test it out in your IDE to go over
your settings.
ftp://ftp://ftp2.allaire.com/support/wchoi/temp.

Also, if you are using Windows 2003 and IIS, check out tech note 19439:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19439.

Also, I was looking for this and couldnt find it. Here is the appropriatrae
file structure that should be used in your applications directory in FMS2:
macromedia
- Flash Media Server 2
--applications
--- appName (inside this place your main.asc file)
---- streams (inside this folder, you put your instance name - the
default is _definst_)
----- _definst_ (inside this folder, place your FLV file)

if you make changes to the file structure, be sure to restart your FMS server.
I really hope this helps. I promise you that it is working for me and am now
up and running smoothly - even using the FLVPlayback component.

Another thing that I should mention, I had errors in the IDE when I had a few
things selected in the component inspector. First, in the contentPath option,
a little box comes up to enter in your path, make sure that nothing is checked.
Second, set autoSize to false. Getting that to work is another story I hear.

I also found this article helpful. This shows you how to not use the
FLVplayback component, but a video object. I actually migrated to using this
for a few things because of the bandwidth issues and the "supposed" instant on
playing that FMS was supposed to do. On a side note, more often than not, I
had better, more solid video with progressive download vs. the streaming.
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flashcom/articles/flvideo_bandwidth.html