does FMS allow you to do server side transcoding of mpeg or qt to .flv? Is the Flix Engine the most common way to do this? I'll be using it on a linux box....more >>

I'm doing a project about trigger voice recording application in a webpage and save the recorded file in server (no file saved in client computer) for future use. Is FMS suitable to fulfill such requirement? And i found that it's really hard to getting start with just using the official he...more >>

I'm hoping someone can help for I am about to give up. I am really surprised that macromedia doesn't offer more assistance. If I can't get the Developer edition to work, what makes macromedia think that I would have any interest in buying FMS? I was able to get FMS installed on linux with no...more >>

I hope this is the correct forum for this quesiton. Some of you may be familiar with the video hosting internet site YouTube. Well for some reason I cannot view videos on that site without them stuttering and ultimately freezing. Sometimes when I'm lucky I can refresh the browser window the...more >>

I am trying to get FMS set up on my VPS (which is running Plesk version of Fedora Core 2) The installation goes ok using using the http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=578&thre adid=1113686&enterthread=y. I then installed the sample applications and tr...more >>

eeps I'm working on an application with a webcam where users can record 10 seconds of video and send there name and email with it. recording the video + giving it a name isn't a problem, but sending the name and email to a text file with FMS is like chinese for me. for example : log...more >>

:confused; I'm trying to build a Flash chat room. I'm using a book: Building Dynamic Websites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004 but the book is not quite clear on how to install the Flash Media Server in the right folders and the necessary UI components (in the book Media Server is called F...more >>

I'm implementing a kind of videoconference in which I need to receive the Microphone.ActivityLevel from a remote user, but I don't know exactly how to do it. I guess an SharedObject can be the solution, but I'm not sure on the method to take. Any idea? ...more >>

hi, i m working on a multiuser app, my app is running successfully on direct connections but i m facing problem to connect when the user is behind proxy. i m running fcs1.5 on windows 2000 server, my web server is using port 8080. i even tried the rtmpt protocol for tunneling but still isn...more >>

Sorry, I must say this. The docs and support for FMS2 and Flash are an absolute joke. It is so frustrating just trying get information on how to create streaming video that it's *almost* not worth it. I SO wish there was another platform out there that one could use. I've posted messages askin...more >>

Hi, im newbie in flash comm server-side programming, and i would like to know, how to make a live counter in the serverside, for example, when someone enters in the app, the counter increases 1 and when it disconnects, it decreases 1. but not only this! I want to show the number of connected p...more >>

Hy all . I'm having a problem with a published video . One client publish the video from camera and it's quality is verry good , but when another client try to view the live stream , the quality is low . Does anyone knows why? ...more >>

Does any one have any documentation related to the amount of concurrent connections that FMS server handle? Obvously recording and playback?...more >>

thanks for your help. have tried for a day to no avail. my flvplayback appears on my development server, but when i go to place the correct address/url of my web server pathway, it gives message fails to load...further when i load it to the web server and play on my development machine only, i...more >>

We have 3 FMS2 licenses at the University of Denver and have a few questions regarding hardware recommendations: 1) We have a lage external storage solution that we would like to keep all of our FLV files on. We want FMS to "hook" into this system and be able to stream media from the stor...more >>

Hi! Can Flash Media Server load files from a local path on the hard drive, like c:\music, and stream it ? //FOLOF...more >>

hi all, I'm trying to figure out the best way to construct an online FLV encoder and player like the one You Tube.com has...Its mainly for convenience since we have collegues that would need to encode video to an FLV but most of them do not know how to use Flash, and an online encoder woul...more >>

We are a small animation production studio and have created a website in Flash. The site was scripted by a very competent service but after the site was uploaded, we discovered the flv's didn't stream easily. We switched our hosting service to Media Temple (great people), so that we could take...more >>