macromedia flash flashcom: is there a way for me to limit the number of concurrent connections to the
media server. my upload bandwitdh is about a meg so having too many connections
just kills the whole thing. i would like to put a limit at 5 connections. is
there a way to do this?

Sure... you can do that.

Do you want to limit total connections to the server, or do you want to limit
things at the application level.

I personally prefer to do things like this at the application level. You might
use something like this:

In your main.asc

application.onConnect = function(clientObj){
if (application.clients.length >=5){
application.rejectConnection(clientObj);
trace ("Too many users... rejecting new connection");
}else{
application.acceptConnection(clientObj);
}
}

well i am only using flash media server to displaying videos and just that. the
reason i went with media server vs. progressive was fullscreen method. since
flash doesn't natively support fullscreen you have to open another browser in
fullscreen with javascript. the problem with that is it start loading from
beginning so i decided to go server that way it only has to buffer and get to
the same point without having to load the whole video up to that point. Now i
want to limit number people that can be watching the video. if i get more that
5 connection the whole thing slows down. i am not too familiar with server
based connections so i don't know how to limit the number concurrent
connections.