macromedia flash flashcom: Hi,
Was informed by a mod over at the flash comm forums
http://www.flashcomguru.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2245&PN=1, that I could
run the developer edition of FMS on my XP box but i've been having loads of
trouble talking to it from my mac..
Do i require a web server loading to serve the media server? something like
apache?
I've just tried accessing an flv in the following directory C:\Program
Files\Macromedia\Flash Media Server
2\applications\videoApp\streams\_definst_\greenScreen.flv, via an FLVPlayback
component running from my mac with the contentPath of
rtmp://172.16.100.138/videoApp/greenScreen.flv and it fires a 'failed to load'
error when attempting to talk to the box to match source dimensions etc..
I have set the server address to the IP of the machine: 172.16.100.138 and my
mac's is 172.16.100.11 (same subnet/gateway)

If anyone has any advice on how I can get talking to it i'd be really grateful.

Sure... you can run FMS from an XP box, and you don't need an https server.

It's funny... everyone seems to have problems with that FLVPlayer component.
If it's the one that shipped with Flash 8, there's an .asc file that needs to
be added to your FMS application directory. The folks at MM seem to have left
that out of the documentation.

Did you add the asc file?

Thanks for your reply,
Yeh, i dropped main.asc into the application directory (videoApp) but still
nothing..
Have been chatting with the guys over at flashcomguru who've been helping me
out but I still can't see video.
I first thought it was because i'm on a corporate network on which, port 1935
is closed but both 443 and 80 are open therefore it should be able to tunnel
over http.
I was originally planning on using some sample files to test it with but as
i'm using the trial.. i don't have any, so i'm going to try and actionscript a
stream into a regular video object and see how that works out.
Will post back with my progress

Thanks again

Have just tried an AS ver and still nothing..
I can't understand why this isn't working??

I've created a video instance called 'vid'
Dropped it on the stage and applied the following code:

var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect("rtmp://172.16.100.138/videoApp");

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

vid.attachVideo(ns);

ns.play("greenScreen");

-- I've tried running it from my mac with the above IP (my XP box's that's
running the FMS), running it as 'localhost' on the XP box, varying rtmp/rtmpt
and attempting to assign specifc ports via :1935, :80 etc. but I still get
nothing..

Is there a trace command I can use to track the progress of the connection
attempts? or something similar?

and there's nothing in particular that I need to do with the FMS other than
assemble the files in the correct structure and fire it up?

This should be the simplest thing in the world to do but i'm still getting
nowhere.?.
If ANYone has any ideas or advice I would be really grateful!!

Thanks,
Dave

[Q]Is there a trace command I can use to track the progress of the connection attempts? or something similar?[/Q]

try this:

nc.onStatus(info){
trace(info.code);