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[CS3] Live Streaming
I have tried just about everything with this. I have to say that the documentation for VOD is excellent but there is very little coherent documentation for the live service.

How do i tell the application that this is a live stream that I want it to connect to? I know there is a parameter called isLive that can be set to true or false. How do I do that? I thought you did not have to write code for the built in apps? Or am I totally off base?

Anyway, I am streaming audio from flash media encoder 2.5 to my flash media server 3. All I want to do is publish the live app like I do the VOD app, so end users can access it from a web server.

Live FLV Streaming?
hello everyone

I need some help with flv straming, I'm trying to do a live flv streaming from YouTube. How?

I did flv straming from localhost: (Server-side)

ActionScript Code:
videoName="test"
application.videoStream = Stream.get("video");
application.videoStream.play(videoName, 0, -1 ,true);

works fine with files on localhost but if change the videoName to a youTube address like: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=yO4Y6TwKBpQ It's not working....

Help!

Oh, if it helps, here's a code for streaming from YouTube: (it's working but it's on the client-side...)

ActionScript Code:
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect((null));

var youTube_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

video1.attachVideo(youTube_ns)
youTube_ns.play("http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=yO4Y6TwKBpQ",-2,0);

It should be so simple!!!

Is it possible to accomplish that by playing the youTube_ns on application.videoStream? is that even possible?

Live Streaming
I have two problems. I'm running Red5...

1) I cannot display a live stream in Flash. I have tried NetConnection and NetStream but to no avail. I can play a FLV by entering its direct url but I cannot watch a live stream. I have FME2.5 running and successfully streaming..I'm viewing it on another player but I cannot get it to display in Flash.

2) I cannot publish my live stream. I keep getting different errors...I have tried multiple ways to call the stream but no luck...I read that vid.connect(null) needs to be there if I don't have FMS but then how would it know what to connect to to see the stream?

So I have rtmp://domain.com/oflaDemo and the stream name is Test. Any help with any of them would be appreciated.

Live Streaming
Hello everybody......

I am startin now with flash and fms2 so please ...be patient against my ignorance.

I finally have been able to build a code for publishing and playing a live stream from my webcam.

The two modules work fine if run separately one after the other....publisher ----> player.

What I am trying to obtain is this:
I want that a web client , via IE6, connects to my site and see live what's happening.

Right now I am publishing the player ONLY module with IIS.

If I connect from my laptop within my home network, to the player module (with the publisher running), it works fine.
Of course the publisher has to be started manually by me before connecting from the laptop.

What I want to avoid it right this.... so I would like to have the client to start the live streaming automatically when it get connected to my website, and stops the live streaming when he leaves the website.

Hope to be clear...

So, I putted togheter the 2 modules into ONE ONLY (the below one), and published it via IIS.

This code works fine on the PC where FLASH 8 and FMS2 are installed (Ctrl + Enter), but connecting to the website from the laptop it does not work.

Could you guys give me a hint to get out of this problem ?

I am stuck badly..... :-(

I am sorry for my bad english but I am italian....

Sincerely Riccardo

* START PUBLISHER */
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect("rtmp://192.168.0.10/videotest");
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

ns.attachVideo(Camera.get(1));
ns.attachAudio(Microphone.get(0));
ns.publish("tinaCam1","live");
/* END PUBLISHER */

/* START PLAYER */
var na:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
na.connect("rtmp://192.168.0.10/videotest");

var nt:NetStream = new NetStream(na);
vid.attachVideo(nt);
nt.play("tinaCam1");
/* END PLAYER */

Live Streaming Help
I have a flash media server that I'm sucessfully using to stream .flv videos. Now I'm wondering how to set up an application on my FMS to stream live video using the new encoder.

I have the new encoder and the server - I just need some basic instructions on how to make the two work together to get a live stream working. The encoder is local and the FMS is at a colocation facility and I have remote access.

Cheers,
Jim

H.264 For Live Streaming
Flash media encoder 2 only encodes to the on2v6 video standard. Has anyone attempted live streaming of h.264? If so, what worked (or didn't)? Any lessons learned would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Live AAC Streaming - Help
I would like to stream live AAC to the Internet via Flash. I have been told the new version of FMS (FMS3) will support it. But, I have yet to find a live encoder! Flash Media Encoder 2 only supports MP3 and NellyMoser audio.

I will have linear PCM audio coming in via an audio card and I want an encoder that will encode it live into AAC and get it to a FMS server.

I have yet to find anything. Help!

Streaming Live FLV Through VOD
I'm trying to develop an application that receives live FLV video through network connection (proprietary protocol) and dumps it on the FMS filesystem. I would like to be able to stream that live video to clients using FMS... I tried to play the video through the VOD application but it seems that the server reads the length of the video when the client connects and won't stream beyond that point.
Is it possible to stream live video from a file that's being appended as data is received over the network? I tried by developing custom file plugin to throttle FMS server reads (on end of file conditions) but that won't help ... I also noticed that FMS first reads first ~290K of stream, then last ~290K stream and then starts to read stream sequentially until end of stream size (that was read at the beginning)...
Can anyone help?

Live Streaming
is the live application just like the VOD one? I want to encode live content with the flash media encoder to my flash server and access it from a client. Do i use the same procedures as a vod? IE, using flash cs3 to publish an html which i then put on my web server.

There seems to be very little in the way of tutorials and documentation on this. Can anyone help me out?

Live Streaming
I have tried just about everything with this. I have to say that the documentation for VOD is excellent but there is very little coherent documentation for the live service.

How do i tell the application that this is a live stream that I want it to connect to? I know there is a parameter called isLive that can be set to true or false. How do I do that? I thought you did not have to write code for the built in apps? Or am I totally off base?

Anyway, I am streaming audio from flash media encoder 2.5 to my flash media server 3. All I want to do is publish the live app like I do the VOD app, so end users can access it from a web server.

Live Mp3 Streaming
Hi all, I have been having a really hard time trying to LIVE stream an mp3 from my flash media server 3 using actionscript 3. I wanted to know how to play an mp3 in a similar way to a radio, it means that when an user connects to my app he starts listening the song from the point in which the song has arrived, and not from the beginning (like a radio, indeed).
If you don't know a better way It would be quite the same if you could translate this
code from as2 to as3 (i took it from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/li
ve_dj_app.html ):

ns1 = new NetStream(nc);
ns1.setBufferTime(3);
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("dj 1", 1);
dj1.attachAudio(ns1);
dj1Sound = new Sound(dj1);
setVolumeOfLines();

Sorry if i sound a bit rude, but English is not my native language.. Thanks all in advance! Be patient, I m quite new to as and fms. Best wishes

Edited: 09/17/2008 at 08:27:37 AM by tgio

Live Streaming
I stream live audio and video just fine. After about 30 seconds, I have to refresh my browser to hear the audio again.

Ideas?

Thank you.

Streaming Live
Hey, How are you there/

PLease can somebody tell me if it's possible to streaming live with Flash MX.
Like having radio streaming over internet

Thanks in advance

Live Streaming In Flash?
hello again!

i was wondering if i could play a .m3u file from flash.

The site is about a radio station in Greece and there is an option in the site to listen live to the station. the file is .m3u and by default opens in winamp. Can i make it play from within the movie (maybe with loadSound? ) . Or if i need to encode the stream in a different format what this should be and how can i do it?

thanx in advance

PS: the site is currently here : http://fm1.teiher.gr for testing purposes.

Streaming Live Auction
I have an auction site as well as several websites and 1 that is total flash. I can work in flash pretty well but I need a feature on our site that is pretty neat. Go to www.bidz.com and click streaming live. This is a live bidding as you post your bid. It seems like it uses flash to do this. How is this done or is there someone who has access to software. Our auction site is www.toolbids.com

Live Streaming Video?
Howdy folks,

How would I get live streaming video to work within a flash application?

I.E. a lecture, for online training, etc.

any and all help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Streaming Store Flv Like A Live
Hi guys,

I very new to adobe FMS, actionscript and everymost things here. Just started doing it 3 days ago.

Anyway i'm able to do streaming now after many try and error. But the problem is, is there any way for me to stream stored videos like in live? I have several videos i wan to stream one after another but like watching tv like that not allowing the ppl to view them from start if they join halfway.

Any idea how should that be done?

Streaming Live Video
I have installed Flash Media Server 2 and Flash Media Encoder but I don't know how to get it from there to steam live onto a player embeded into a web page. Can anyone help?

Streaming Live Audio
Hi,

I'm trying to understand how radio stations like cknw.com use a flash player to stream live audio from their site.

I've created radio type application in flash streaming pre-made mp3s from Flash Media Server, but I can't understand how to stream live audio.

Can someone provide some insight?

Thanks

Live Video Streaming
I would like to be able to stream live video from one point to another point over an IP network. Do I need Flash for this. Is this the best method. I assume I would then use Flash Server.

Live Streaming From Linux ?
Hello,

Would it be possible to stream live video from a Linux ? Encoding video with Linux, send to the Flash Media Server and finally to user ?

Regards
Joao Correia

Redundant Live Streaming
Hi,

I have a customer who needs to serve a live video stream and wants it to be highly reliable. He also doesn't have the budget for an Origin / Edge deployment at the moment.

Do you think the following will work?

The video stream will be sent from a single source to (2) servers, each running a FMS 2.0 Pro license. These servers will sit behind a hardware load balancer (like a Foundry switch). Users who want to view the video stream will visit a CF MX page and be directed to a single IP address to obtain the video. This IP address will be managed by the hardware load balancing device, which will send the video request to the primary FMS 2.0 Pro server. If the primary FMS server fails while a live video stream is being served, the hardware load balancer will shift the user's session to the secondary FMS server. Users may notice a temporary blip while the session fails over, but otherwise the video experience should be relatively continuous.

Am I missing something obvious here? Or should this just work?

Thanks,
Adam

Help With Setup For Live Streaming
I'm trying to set up a live stream that's viewable on my website.
I have two machines behind a router with one being the webserver running FMS (windows 2003) and the other being the encoding machine running FME (windows XP).
When I set up FME, I put in the following as the url to the server "rtmp://computernamewebserver/live/" with the session name being "test".
This has no problems connecting to FMS .

On the webserver/FMS, I created a *.swf file which basically contains just a flvplayback object with the URL set to "rtmp://computernamewebserver/live/test".

Now after I publish this, I can view the video via the published html file from within the network, but when I try outside of the network, it doesn't work and I get no error messages so it's hard to debug.

I have port 80 forwarded to my webserver/FMS machine. I tried forwarding port 1935 to both my webserver/FMS machine and the FME machine with no success.
I've tried playing around with the rtmp URL by changing the computernamewebserver from the internally recognized computer name to the externally recognized URL to my webserver.

The solution is probably something simple, but since this is my first attempt at flash streaming, it's not obvious to me and I've tried searching for the solution. My suspicion is that there's some config file somewhere that I need to config that I don't know about or maybe it's some port issue. Neither of my machines have windows based firewall disabled.

Live Streaming For Downlink
Hello:

I have a 2-way video client using FMS3(hosted) in between. I want to know that if I optimize what I can uplink from user A, then will FMS3 automatically buffer the stream if user B's downlink can't handle a faster uplink speed from user A? Likewise, if user A's uplink speed is less than user B's downlink speed, does FMS3 do anything to keep user B's video from being very choppy and where user might see frozen frames due to frames not being sent fast enough?

If FMS3 doesn't handle this out of the box, then is this a server side script that needs to be written to handle this?

Thanks,

Dan

Live Streaming Question
How can I use another encoder to do live streams?

The Flash Media Encoder is alright for most things, but I want I want to go a little deeper and try to improve encoding, doing 2-pass, and a few other quirks to try to improve my live video quality and bandwidth usage.

The problem is, I have no idea how to do that for Live encoding. I'm not very experienced either with Flash or with FMS. Looking at the documentation, I only see one way to connect to the FMS, which is by Flash. And after connecting by Flash, I have to either use "netstream.attachVideo(Camera.get()) + netstream.publish" which gets information directly from a video source and the publishes to server, or by choosing an already existing FLV file, and then publishing it to the server.

But how can I publish live encoded video without using the FME? FME does it somehow, and I'm pretty certain those hardware encoders (I.E. Kulabyte) have some way of using the FMS to produce live content as well, so there must be a way, right?

Can anyone help me with this?

Edited: 04/22/2008 at 11:28:29 AM by Alejux

Streaming Live Content
I'm looking to stream videos that are already on the server in a playlist but stream them live, I mean how can I set the time of start of a video, I'm currently using the streams application from adobe. I want those videos start at certain time and then stop, not as VOD

Live Streaming Using FMS3
Hi,
I have installed FMS3 on RHEL4 and installed it successfully.I tested all the VOD samples and all are playing fine without any issues.Now i want to use the FMS for LIVE streaming from camera connected to server..how to go about it..

Live Streaming From FMS3
Hi,
I am newbie to flash media server,i want to know how to stream the live content as below,

A->Server,B->System where i am getting the live feed,C->System where user wants to see the live feed,

System is getting the live feed from the camera..it will encode that and give out the live feed to FMS i.e. system A in the from of a .sdp(session description protocol)(encoded content is in 264(video) and aac(audio))..so in FMS server i have sdp file..when i open it in FMS Server(system A) in VLC player it starts playing.Now i want FMS to use this and stream the content that it is getting from system B..to system C..(n number of clients)....any one knows whether i can directly use sdp for streaming in FMS.

Live Vs VOD Streaming Capacity
What if any difference does a live event with 500 (for example) connected users have on server performance vs 500 VOD connections?

Also, given a server which meets or exceeds the Adobe recommendations for FMS3, (ram is doubled and processors are more powerful) what is the safe number of streaming connections?

Live Streaming Incomplete
Hi,

Going through couple of tutorials on the adobe site, i wanted to try out how the live streaming works.
So i setup the FMS 3 on the system which also hosts my web server (IIS).
I setup the FME 2.5 on my system(with attached web cam).
Later i started the live streaming by providing the FMS URL: "rtmp://ip_address/live/instance1" and with stream name as "myFirstStream".
I was able to confirm that my FMS is able to receive the stream by verifying the FMS Admin console on the server.

Second part:
i created a "myStream.fla" having the FLV playback object on the timeline and providing "livestream" as its instance name. i did not provide any source/contentpath in the properties window for the FLV playback object.
Then i created "streamaction.as" file and included that in the action script window in timeline2-frame1 by using the following code syntax: include "streamaction.as"

in "streamaction.as" file in included the following 3 lines of code:

livestream.width=320;
livestream.height=240;
livesteam.load("rtmp://ip_address/live/instance1/myFirstStream", true);

"true" in the above line indicates "isLive" value.

i created a "test.html" page in which i used the <object> and <embed> tags to embed the "myStream.swf" file

Issue 1: But when i opened the "test.html" in my browser, no streaming was visible except the place holder/blank flash object in the page, eventhough the FME and FMS are displaying the streaming from my webcam.

i even modifed the code as follows:
livestream.width=320;
livestream.height=240;
//livesteam.load("rtmp://ip_address/live/instance1/myFirstStream", true);
livesteam.contentpath = "rtmp://ip_address/live/instance1/myFirstStream";
livesteam.isLive = true;

Also can anyone suggest how to access the flash variable so that i can pass the URL value from my web page itself to the flash object. I had come accross the following way.. could this be the right approach (read FlashVars in the tags below)? ref: http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flashVars/index.html

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="

Live Streaming Of Audio
Hi All,

In continuation to my previous quest to achieve live video streaming, which was finally through, now i am trying to integrate live audio streaming as well. So far i was able to find article (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/beginner_audio_fms3_03.html) on broadcasting saved "mp3" files and this comes under "on demand" rather than "live" from the FME 2.5- FMS 3 - FP9. Can anyone provide inputs to accomplish the desired live streaming of audio

I also came accross information that mp3 format is very well supported in latest updates of FP9 and not earlier versions. Do you suggest still using "NellyMoser" format at 11KHZ or 8KHZ in order to avoid choppy live audio and live video streaming from the FME 2.5- FMS 3 - FP9.

TIA,
Mohith

FMS 3 Streaming Live With A 3 Sec Delay
Hi,
I have a console created that has up to 8 Video Consoles, one main one and 7 small ones.

4 are on a Gig LAN so there are only slight delays.

One is in Moscow with a 2 mb lan, and using Flash Media Encoder in the Moscow Office and the FMS 3 server is in Ireland. the FMS Server is on a dedicated Windows 2003 Server with 4 gb Ram and 500 gb Hard drive and is used for nothing else.

Even with the Flash Media Encoder settings for the Logitiech 9000 webcam set to 200 kb per sec, no Audio and 15 fps, there is still a 3 second Video delay.

The video is more important than the Audio as we can use Teleconferencing for the Audio, but is there anyway I can improve the Video stream speed please?

Live Encoding And Streaming
Hi,

I have a video source (avi) that I need to encode into a format which FMS can then broadcast live. To clarify, the encoding and broadcasting needs to be simultaneous - I cant wait for the encoding to finish. I need to encode the avi into a stream and broadcast the stream while the encoding is ongoing.

What are my options here? Can the Flash Media Encoder do this? Can I use FFMpeg to convert to flv and pipe the result into FMS for broadcast? If anyone could help, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks,
Mike Lee

Live Streaming Source
Hi everyone,

Is it possible to get FMS to live stream from a non-webcam source? For example, if I wanted to live stream from a desktop capture program is there any other way of getting FMS to detect the live stream other than a webcam-simulator of some sort?

Thanks,
Mike

Live Video Streaming?
this is probly the wrong forum to put this on, but it is an experimental thing, so wot the hell....

does anybody know of any software (other than the likes of vt4) that can broadcast live tv, or recorded data over the internet?

preferably something that doesnt cost £5000 like vt 4 does

any ideas?

Live Streaming Video
Ok. I got an event comming up theis friday and I need some help. I want to have my web cam record something live and have it show up on my site in a streaming format live. How can I do this?

Live Streaming Video
Hi!

I've been researching on how streaming video works in Flash 8, I've managed to create a streaming video example using flash and a .wmv file converted into .flv.. Now I am trying to create a live streaming video which the source of the movie is through live data (webcams, video recorders, etc). Can anyone help me with it? It would really be appreciated.

Thanks!

Live Video Streaming
Hello all,

Can any one walk me through the process of broadcasting live video stream in Flash?

I want to be able to display constant video stream from different local pc's in my website.

I tried gathering information from the W3 but it's too strenuous.
I'm new to FLash Video so please be gentle

Thx, KD

Streaming RSS Feeds Live?
First off I really know very little, so forgive me if I ask a stupid question, or don't understand something you write.

So I have an RSS feed that is being read into dynamic text fields. The content of the RSS feed needs to be updated like every minute or every half minute, as there are constantly new items in the feed. Is there a way in ActionScript to reload the feed in interval times, or maybe reload the whole script?

Cheers.

Flash Video Streaming (LIVE)
For those doing in live video streaming and stuff like this, check http://www.videocaller.com and try the sample

Startin Live Streaming From Remote Web Pc
Hello every body (I am italian so pardon my bad english).

Shortly:

I have my home network with 1 PC and 1 laptop.

The PC has FMS2 + FP8 + IIS loaded
The laptop simulates the web remote client.

I have this CODE:

/* start PUBLISHER */
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect("rtmp:/mamma");
//* also tried with nc.connect("rtmp://192.168.0.10/mamma"); *//

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);

ns.attachVideo(Camera.get());
//* also tried with ns.attachVideo(Camera.get(1));
ns.attachAudio(Microphone.get());
//* also tried with ns.attachAudio(Microphone.get(0)); *//
ns.publish("tinaCam1","live");
/* end PUBLISHER */

/* start PLAYER */
var na:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
na.connect("rtmp:/mamma");
//*also tried with na.connect("rtmp://192.168.0.10/mamma"); *//

var nt:NetStream = new NetStream(na);
vid.attachVideo(nt);
nt.play("tinaCam1");
/* end PLAYER */

I have then published it to obtain the HTML and SWF, so to publish them with IIS.

This script works fine if I run it from the Server PC (where fms2+FP8+IIS are installed) within FP8 and also running it from the .HTML page works great.

If I run the published .HTML from the laptop, it does not work.
The camera on the PC SERVER does not turn ON , but the FMS2 Console shows 2 connections running with the live streaming playing.

let me also say that I have tried to disable NORTON FIREWALL in both computers....with no luck.

Could you guys help me ...... I am going crazy