ok, so i'm installing the latest version of macromedia flash player and it says when the installation is complete the image above will be visable. so i waited and waited, and its been an hour and it still won't work, what do i do? please help me ...more >>

I have FMS2 installed. I have Dreamweaver 8. My path to the Applications folder in FMS is the default. My webserver has a folder that I am publishing my HTM and SWF files to. (the applications folder is NOT in the web accessable folder). My .flv files live in Applications/App_Name/...more >>

hi, im building a webcam app i have 2 websites: site1.com & site2.com publishing and playing from site1 to site1 is ok publishing and playing from site2 to site2 is ok BUT when i try to play a live stream from site 1 to site2 i cant see the live stream it keeps telling me Faile t...more >>

When I originally set up FMS it was working perfectly. I could load my applications and test them without problems. However, after developing for a while I had to restart the server. After the restart I can no longer load my application. The server and adminserver are both started and I can lo...more >>

Great ok, does anyone have a sample FLA or SWF I can use just to test and see if my server is configured properly. I have a few FLV's sitting in the streams directory, I just need something to play them with now. Also, is it completly necissary to use an SMIL file to get this to work? Can I ...more >>

hi all, i managed to play a .swf file in the a directory containing the .flv file using FMS. i read from the documentations that i am able to play the .swf file in a directory without the .flv file. But when i try to copy and paste the .swf file to another directory and play it, i cannot s...more >>

Dear all, I've installed the free Developers Edition but had no luck, and I can read on this forum lots of others had problems too. I'm just looking for an example that shows how to implement a video streaming service from our server with automatic bandwidth detection, and more important...more >>

Hello, I have a big and complicated project in mind that features interactive video communication which requires flash media server programming and PHP/mySQL. I have been looking around for a company whom could create this script, however i can't seem to find any companies that does flash ...more >>

somebody can give me help for FMS.Thanks...more >>

I'm running FMS on Fedora Core 4 and it's been fine for a while but for some reason, every few weeks, it just crashes and the only evidence I find is in /var/log/messages. This is the error I see... # grep "Master process not found, or multiple masters" messages* messages:Apr 26 15:4...more >>

I have the developer version of flash media server set up. I also have a flash video file with the name p1f1.flv. What do I have to do to view this video (streamed) in a browser? Can't find a cookbook or tutorial explaining this. ...more >>

I am trying to find a way to record a live Flash video stream. As far as I can tell it seems that the Flash Media Server should have that ability - but none of the Flash Streaming Service providers that I have contacted seem to provide that capability. Being able to do this is critical to my...more >>

Hello I don't see Flash Media Server Components from the Component Panel pop up menu. Is it normal ? I use Flash MX with Flash Media Server 2.0.1 Can you help me please. Thanks....more >>

Hello I saw this information : Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX 1.5 comes with a new feature called "HTTP tunneling". This makes it possible to use port 80 and the http-protocol for communicating with the server. link : http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flashcom/articles/first_com...more >>

Hello I would like to know if I can use Flash MX with Flash Media Server 2.0.1 ? Thank you...more >>

Hi Everyone, i have installed FSM2 and IISwin2003 and Flash8 on the same server, my rtmp is : rtmp://127.0.0.1/myapp2/myapp2.flv it works fine on local, but when a clinet tries to browse it over same LAN , the client gets the error below : Connection rejected by server. Reason :...more >>

I downloaded the Developer version, as we are evaluating, whether or not we are going to purchase FCS. I went through the documentation and its not user friendly either. I really find it difficult to set it up, does anyone know where I could find a set of step-by-step instructions? I ha...more >>

I am a system admin tasked with installing Flash Media Server 2. I have followed the instructions and I am able to start both the adminserver and server processes. When I try to access the admin I get the following error. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> - <result> <level>er...more >>

One of our clients noticed across 2 Macs that the audio feeds started to progressively slow down (sounding like an old record player winding down). Is this a known issue? (see topic title and summary for specs). Thanks. ...more >>

Hi all, I have researched the Server.xml file in FMS2. This file have property : <!-- Max connections requests that can be pending. Connections will be rejected if queue size limit is reached. --> ...more >>

Yes... heavy latency will slow your streams down. I would guess that the problem has to do with the network, rather than the server(s). Can you explain things in a little more detail? When did the latency begin to increase? what is the average round-trip time for your pings? From what...more >>

I am really new to this, and can't sem to find basic examples of how to use flash media server.... If any one knows of any good websites/tutorials (not books) with info on this subject please let me know. I don't even know if I have installed the developers edition correctly on my harddriv...more >>

Hi Today, we provide our users with an embedded ActiveX control to encode video from any DirectShow-supported input device. We transcode the video on the client side and upload up to 1-minute video (.wmv). Users can edit the captured video prior to upload (in/out handles in the UI), and ...more >>

Word on the net is that Adobe Labs is releasing a FLV2 to MP3 converter. I have heard this for a month now. Anyone has an idea when its being released? We have a burning project and really convert those FLV's to MP3's so they can be downloaded by the user (we record audio with FMS2). Do you ha...more >>

hi, im streaming video over my server, everything is fine if the islive option is "false", but when i set it to "true", i can see the streaming connection on my FMS2 managment console however the webpage is just blank. no movie is displayed... why does this happen ? anyone pls help .. ...more >>

Hi all, I've created a logging system on FMS2 server-side. Every log will be stored in an text file. So far so good, I can create files, write to the files, appand to the files. Then I loop trought all the files (I can get a nice array off all the files in the log directory), send the ...more >>

This is my first attempt at building a dynamic playlist for streaming flash video and I'm following the tutorial at "macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_player.html". I've changed the paths to my FMS and loaded the video files to the applications directory of the FMS (flash_applicatio...more >>

Hello Everyone, I am a complete newbie to FMS2. In fact, I don't know much about server-side technologies at all. There is a gentleman I work with that is taking care of that side of things for me, but I am posting here in his place as the work he does for me is part-time, and I need to ...more >>

I apologize in advance if this information is covered elsewhere...I just cannot locate an exact answer, and it is frustrating. Also, I an new to FMS (was just assigned to do this after two other web programmers left the company), so please bear with my questions... Before yesterday, our '...more >>

Hi FMS coders... I was lookng for a shared scratch pad, like flashcomguru has. I found a tutorial at macromedia's website, they teach how to make a line and a freehand drawing methods, but teach only how to make the lines shareable, and i dont want to draw lines, i want the freehand type o...more >>

:confused; Ok, I'm an IT Director who's been slated to get FMS2 running and I have a feeling I'm going to need some development help with this. I have IIS6.0 running my site on port 81, FMS uses 1935 and tunnels over port 80. I'm just trying to get one .FLV file to play in a browser for me...more >>

Hello all, I am new to flash but have a development background in Java and PHP etc... so have no problem understanding code. I have a client who wants to try out the Media Server. so I downloaded the developers edition which is cool then the sample apps. I worked with some and got the...more >>

Hello, I'm fairly new to Flash and I've searched online to try to find someone else with this issue but no luck so far. I'm trying to follow along some basic "chat room" tutorial. However, when I publish, the premade chat component shows up with no button and no where to enter text. ...more >>

could you please tell me if any one konw how to connect with flash and access using javascript or vbscript, I prefer Javascript this not a online application this will go with a CD can you help me ???? ...more >>

hola quer?a saber como puedo crear mi propio chat de videoconferencia con macromedia flash mx 2004 y flash media server si alguien tiene puede darme un manual se lo agradecer?a gracias ____________________ translate: Hello it(he,she) wanted to know since(as,like) I can create my own(prop...more >>

Hello all, We have some video streaming through FMS. All is well for almost all who view, but unfortunately our client is behind a massive firewall and who knows what else and has issues seeing it... It will actually stream, but it takes about 3-4 minutes for it to start, and then some tim...more >>

I am using Flash MX to fade out my index page. The fade out works fine. I consider the fading out process to be my movie. I would like to insert a button/click to indicate to the user to start the movie/fading out process at will. This is my problem. Do you have any suggestions? :disgus...more >>

Hi, Its easy to grap php sessions from client side flash ,but how can i pass the user session id to server side asc. I want to write some text to a database when the user close the browser and trigger the application.onDisconnect function. Its no problem with loadVars but how can i pas...more >>

Hi, Im learning flash media server at the mo and have a problem. I'm trying to use an onsync handler so that when a player clicks a movieclip on stage and moves it, the same movieclip moves on all other clients. The way i am trying to initiate this is as follows, //>> First i've set a re...more >>

Hi i'm trying to setup a stream chaining between 2 flash media servers. Basically I have an swf that streams my camera to FS Server 1. In FS Server 1, i have the following code in the main.asc application.onConnect = function(client, username){ gFrameworkFC.getClientGlobals(client).u...more >>

Does anyone know if there are components for Flash Comm 1.5 to use in Flash 8. We have both a Media Server 2 and Older Flash Comm 1.5 and we use both. Or if the new 2 components will work with 1.5? Thanks ...more >>

I just downloaded FMS 2.0.1 today and installed on my Win2K dev machine. I just want to start testing. After reading up in the docs about how to connect to the server and being unsuccessful in doing so, I downloaded the samples from the Macromedia site. I unzipped and placed the samples an...more >>

I am trying to view a video online and am able to view the presentation, but it says that there is no audio. How can I hear the audio? ...more >>

Hi, i m a begginer and do not know much abt flash.... i have two questions.... first....how can i make a button in flash tht is similar to the buttons in msn music....ex..http://music.msn.com/search/all/?ss=temperature ........as u can c the play button, when u clik them , the loading anim...more >>

I last touched Flash back in 2004MX, haven't bought the version 8 upgrade yet, and my actionscript is a bit rusty. I'm interested in trying to learn the Flash Media Server, I've installed the demo on my WinXP machine. I downloaded the media server components and installed them according to t...more >>

Ok this might seem like a simple question but I really can?t work out what I need to. I have created a chat programme using the simple connect component and put it on my server. I am then hosting Media Server on my own computer which is on a LAN behind a firewall. I have specified the rtm...more >>

Hey does anyone know how to make a sound wave motion detector (soz don't know real wording) It's a couple of bars which go up and down when music is played, then if pressed the music fades out and the bars stand still http://www.thetimemovie.com/<<< ull see what i mean at the bottom of t...more >>

hi all, i m working on a/v chat and almost completed it. and its running well on non proxy clients. but i m facing problem when client is behind proxy. fcs connecting such connections for a moment and after some moments, dissconnecting it. i am using rtmpt on port 80. and port 80 is ...more >>

So we're upgrading from Flash Comms Server to Flash Media Server 2. We run on Debian, so that in itself wasn't as simple as you might think, had to all this to get it to wok apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libnspr4 cd /usr/lib ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.7 libcrypto.so.4 ln -s libss...more >>

Hello, I'm thinking about to do a fake live streaming this way: 1. My capture card (not seem by flash as a camera) saves an avi file to a folder in my server (Red Hat); 2. Use ffmpeg to encode this file as flv and copy this flv to the stream folder under my FMS2 application folder - e...more >>