i installed flash communication server mx 1.5 development edition and i tried to connect to it from the administration console but i can't the error message is:failed to connect to server the username and password are correct what is the problem? ...more >>

I have created a video chat application, but the resolution of the video is poor. I have both the bitrate and quality high, but it seems like the horizontal and vertical resolution is low. Is there a way to set the with and height of the captured camera input? ...more >>

Hi Folks, Let's try this again. If I set up a page with a single flv playing off our Flash Media Server 2, everything works just fine. If I create a page with several flv files on it, some of them load and then I get nailed with Certificate Alerts. All of the videos are coming from the same ...more >>

I want to create a shared object which contains an array of objects. I want to have functions the client can call to add, delete, and update items in the shared object, but there do not seem to be any mechanisms for that. Anyone have any ideas I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, ...more >>

Hi All Can anybody help in configuring FMS2 on a local machine so that I can test some sample applications. My main aim is to abe able to stream live video and audio using FMS 2.0 . I am completely new to flash and FMS so any help will be highly appreciated. Regards -Raj ...more >>

Has any of the developers try to use publish settings as Version : Flash Player 8.0 and Actionscript settings: Actionscript 2.0 with the communication components like Audio conference, Instant poll, Chat, User Color etc. I tested Instant Poll, Chat, Color, but they dont seem to be working fine...more >>

Is it possible to integrate FMS with another application running on the same server? We have an application that we would like to make Web-based. In order to do this, we need to be able to push the application engine's output to the clients. Does FMS have an API that would enable this? Our app...more >>

Hi There, I'm having problems with setting variables and accessing them through Application.config. I have set custom tags within<config> tags within <applicationObject> tags in the <JSEngine> section of my Application.xml. I've copied that Application.xml into the registered folder for my a...more >>

:beer; I'm rather new to fms and wanted to know if anyone can tell me if it is possible to disable the audio stream in the communication components AV Presence ? Thanks Mike...more >>

Are you sure Media Server 2 is worth it? There's not all that much new since 1.5, and it costs $4,500 for 150 connections! Divide that up and 50 connections is worth $1,500. Why would you want to pay $4,500 for a small project when FCS 1.5 Personal was $499? They might've stopped selli...more >>

Has anyone figured out how to stream video from FCS/FMS on [b]FLEX 2.0[/b]? I've been working with all the sample code I can find, especially the [b]FLEX 2.0[/b] samples found in the Adobe documentation, but I'm having a heck of a time getting any of them work. If any one has any worki...more >>

Over the last few years we have developed a Flash based videoconferencing tool which uses the flashmedia server. Recently clients using this have complained of problems with audio, and this would appear to be specifically related to people who have installed the Flash 9 player. The people ...more >>

Hi ALL Its very simple!! Please let me explain it in very less but clear words. There is one webpage which contains 10 swf files (apparently these are buttons to play or stop sounds.) 1.swf which plays sound1, 2.swf which plays sound2 etc... Now the problem is when you hit on any butto...more >>

Is there a way to point the FMS Application to load streams from a different directory than the one under the application. for example FMS app is at c:\FMSApplications\App1\Streams\EnglishStreams i want App1 to load it's streams from a network share \\netShare\Streams\EnglishStreams ...more >>

Hello, I installed FMS Developer editioni onto my server. The server is not live to the world yet, but according to the manuals that shouldnt matter, FMS still should work with the server. So, when I go to play a video through my new site, the FMS consol says it is connected and a video is...more >>

I am considering the purchase of a Intuos3 9X12. Any comments or advice is greatly appreciated. ...more >>

I had to correct the date and time on my windows machine and got this meddage from the system: FMS has detected system time is going backwards; shutting down server. Even a reinstall didnt work, anyone any suggestion how to solve this problem? ...more >>

Kevin Towes steps through the process protecting swf files on a Flash Comm server in his book "Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX" - http://tinyurl.com/qkhkz. He uses Flash Remoting, Action Script, a database, and Coldfusion. My question is: Will this work with ASP or is the ColdFus...more >>

Sorry for my probably bad english;) I'm calculating cost of servers for the organization online video service. And I cannot understand is there difference in recommended configuration between Origin and Edge servers. I mean can I take a fast Origin server and slow Edge? And other question is...more >>

Hi everyone, I've tested the streaming tutorial by Stephan Richter : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashcom/articles/broadcast_receiver.html It works perfectly on a single computer with one client and one server application launched but when trying on two different machines on my LAN, i...more >>

I'm biulding a chat functions on top of a coldfusion pages. However i find that the basic room function of FMS component does not fulfill some of my requirement (or i'm not good enough in action script) I would like to biuld a room organizer using coldfusion and access to control the chat r...more >>

I'm having trouble with IIS and FMS conflicting when my server starts up. It appears that FMS starts up before IIS does and engages all available IPs, blocking IIS from starting the websites I have hosted on the server. My adaptor.xml file contains: <HostPort>69.25.11.114:1935,80,443,25</...more >>

I am creating an app that records the users voice to a file on the server by attacing to the microphone and publishing it. Very simple and it works. Here is the part that I cannot get to work. I also have a sound streaming in from the server in a NetStream object. I want to include this to t...more >>

Flash 9 will introduct ActionScript 3.0 and FMS2 is still using AS 1.0. When will server code be able to be written in AS 2.0 or AS 3.0?...more >>

Hello , My question on this is if we can have a trademark send with the video from the webcam is sended . So on the viewer side , the stream is attached on a video and in a corner that trademark appear . Is this even possible . On the viewer side there is no movieclip with the trademark ,...more >>

now i'm busy with this sharedball thing, so each one that connects gets his own ball.. (with attach function) but now i want do de-attach when someone leaves. this someone might not be interested in clicking logout... (or disconnect) and he will click the window right away.. the ball wil...more >>

hi all, i just installed a version of fcs 1.5 mx in my machine. i have fp 9, and authoring flash 8 and mx 2004. it installed the server in my machine but the components dosen't show up in the componetns window either in flash 8 or mx 2004. 2 questions: where is my fcs components? ca...more >>

Hi i am new to FMS, is it possible to convert any video format to flv when uploading to FMS??...more >>

Can anyone please suggest a few good books on using the Flash Media Server?...more >>

Hi People ! Can anyone give us a lead on how to time sessions out using ACS ? We're seeking to define a demo session length (server side). Much appreciate any help Kind regards Prema ...more >>

I have an external flv which I want to go back to the beginning once it is finished so the viewer can watch it again without having to reload the page. When I posted this question in the Actioscript forum someone suggested that I use NetStream.onPlayStatus (I'm using NetStream.pause and NetStr...more >>

hi all, i don't think anyone can help me, but i'll explain my problem anyway.. i have FMS2 installed on Win XP.. it works fine.. and i can go to the admin console. So i want to try a sample application.. i create a new instance (just like the name what the script says: for example; exam...more >>

Hi everybody, I was wondering if it was possible to: 1-Open a flash in an IE window with a netconnection (to a Flash media server appication) 2-Open IE popup windows to display multiple Netstreams (using the same netconnection) I want to open multiple netstream videos and be able t...more >>

hi... i have created a stream in the server side that attach the stream os someone application.onConnect = function(client) { trace("we are connected"); var playStream = Stream.get("source"); playStream.play("sc", 0, -1); } the name od the stream of the user is "sc", and t...more >>

Hello, I installed recently FMS2 in Windows XP but can connect at this server only admin console. I try simple connect, also samples from macromedia and nothing can connect. My firewall is off and I try to test it from localserver. Have no application which can block 1935 port. Status...more >>

Cannot install FMS server in Linux Fedora 4, I receive this message: Your distribution, unknow, is not supported by this Macromedia Flash Media Server installer. What can I do, who can help me? ...more >>

I was wondering what are the pros and cons of moving our text based broadcast service from Flash Remoting to Flash Media server. Right now we have the client flash file retrieve messages via the Flashservice Gateway installed by Coldfusion 7. As of this moment we do not see the need for audio ...more >>

I've spent most of the last couple of days crawling through the PDFs for client and server side AS, along with the technotes and samples, attempting to get a clear understanding of how to get SMIL XML based dynamic bandwidth streaming from FMS2. I've been able to code from scratch a nice NetSt...more >>

Hello, I would like to record the flv from the client application in the flash7 codec no matter what version the user has. Reason for this is I need to convert the movi to different formats and the software we are using to accomplish that is unable to convert the latest codec. Is this ...more >>

Hello, We are using the dev version of FMS and have run into a strnge condition. Our application streams multiple flvs in series to provide a training scenario. During the playback of the flvs the stream just stops and the server shows no connections. This happens right in the middle of the ...more >>

We are building a video site, which will be used to showcase users video. We want to playback the video in Flash like Google video or You Tube and also want the ability for users to download the video in iPod, Podcast, Palm and mobile formats. Wondering if anyone here knows how this may be...more >>