Flash :: Multiple Out Streams From One Live In Stream

Can I Insert An Extra Audio Stream Into The Live Stream?
I have a project where I need to set up a broadcast (from pre-recorded files) so people can 'tune in' at a certain time to watch a show. Some of these shows should have a soundtrack, can I use SSAS to overlay an extra audio stream? So I would send one video and two audio streams out to the client as one stream.

Alternatively, can I use SSAS to replace the audio, so effectively demux the original audio off and send out a different audio stream in its place.

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Live Ghost Streams
Hi all.

First off, some qualifying information -
Iâ€™m using FMS v 2.0.3 for a simple video presence application. There is no chat involved.
Also, we can keep the conversation technical as you guys/gals see fit - Im savvy in that sense - but I havenâ€™t worked with FMS since it was FCS.

So the question is â€“ how do you clean up and/or prevent Ghost Streams in your video applications when the live stream is severed?

When a qualified "Publisher" account logs into the app (the website - not FMS) they have the ability to publish their likeness using their web cam. Thatâ€™s all.

When a qualified "Subscriber" account signs in, they have the option of subscribing to any of the available "Publisher" streams.
..as you could imagine...this is probably for another social networking site *hehe*.

The problem I am having is that if a "Publisher" loses the connection to FMS in a less-than-graceful fashion, their stream does not disappear (according to admin console) - BUT their "client" instance does. This creates problems elsewhere in this project.

I am using the admin api to query FMS for all live publishing streams as such:
nc.call("getActiveInstances", new onGetLivestreams(), "MY_APP/_definst_");

What I am working on a present is a swf proxy that can be queried by the DOM (via Javascript) for FMS statistics. Really, the only thing I need a close-to-real-time list of available streams â€“ that will be used OUTSIDE of flash. (..details are purposely omitted for brevity)

I have done a lot of due diligence on this issue but can find very little information out there on forcibly stopping a stream. This seems like a very basic feature that would be built into the server- but apparently not.

Waiting for garbage collection is not an option (I know you can tune this at the server level).

Any help is greatly appreciated.
-casey

Archival Of Live Streams
I work for a broadcasting company... we are currently evaluating flash as a replacement to the existing enterprise we've built using M$ solutions. One of my functions as software engineer has been in the archival of our live broadcasts. Its a major part of the business. I need to be able to record live streams. Is there are code sample out there that will demonstrate how to do this with the information/products that Adobe has? I downloaded the "SDK" which looks like a document describing the protocols and file formats for the streams.

Can this be done? I'm mostly concerned about performance. My current archiver can do 120 simultaneous live feeds to disk. This isn't for Flash, its for M$ solutions. I'm looking for information concerning the archival of live streams in the Flash technology arena... does it exist?

Thanks,
D

Multible LIVE Streams
Hello,

My Customer wants to stream 4 simultanous live streams to the internet with approx. 200 viewers each.
Can this be done using one FMS??

In addition my customer wants the streams to be encrypted and secured with DRM.
How can I achive this using FMS??

Thanks in advance
regards
Mads Brydegaard
Copenhagen, Denmark

Recording Live Streams With AS3 App?
I work for an internet broadcasting company that mostly broadcasts live events. We have an archival process for all non-flash media types.

I need to know if its possible to record live flash streams using some kind of ActionScript application? We really don't want to record from the media server if we can help it, it will be better if I could have a multithreaded ActionScript application that could record more than one stream using some http reference to the stream broadcast.

Does anyone know if this is possible, where I might look, or where some sample source code could be found to accomplish this?

Thanks,
D

ComputeSpectrum / Live Streams
Hi
I`ve got a project involving recording live audio and streaming it through flash, and using computeSpectrum to react to the music.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience of streaming live audio with Flash (so far I think it's only possible with FMS) and if computeSpectrum works the same with a live stream.

Thanks a lot for any help

Embed Live Cue Data In Live Stream?
I am currently using the new FME to encode live to a FMS. Both applicatioins are running on the same machine. Is there a way to embed live cue and metadata into the live stream? Once embedded we want to record the stream AND send it on to viewers. Is there a way to process this on the server. The live cue and metadata is coming in the serial port.

Using VideoDisplay Component With FMS Live Streams
Hi:

i'm working on a Flex2 & Flash Media Server Project and have a problem with VideoDisplay Flex2 Component.

I'm trying to publish a FMS camera live stream with a VideoDisplay, but it doesn't work.

I checked somo examples with the first release of Flex, but it doesn't work on Flex2.

I need some help.

Thank you.

Live RTMP Streams On The Internet
Hello, i'm looking for internet televisions , live 24 hours a day, and watchable with the Flash Player (so they should be live RTMP streams coming from a flash media server).

Do you know someone?
i tried with google but i found only tvs for WMP, Quicktime or Real Player
thanks

Recording Live Streams ActionScript App?
I work for an internet broadcasting company and one of our operational requirements is the archival of our live events we provide to customers.

I was wondering if it was possible to record live streams with ActionScript and if so, where I might start looking to get an application written that will record streams from various sources to target files. Ideally the application would be multithreaded to do more than one event at a time (sometimes quite a few).

Any idea on where I should start or where to get some sample source code that does this or something similar to it?

Thanks,
D

Resize Live Streams Dynamically
Hello!

I currently work on a supervision- and video-conference software with live-video based on flash player 8/9 and FMS2.
For this purpose i planned to realize an overview and a fullscreen-view.

Now I got this problem:
I want to stream a full-size video to the FMS and then publish this stream in two different sizes (a little one for the overview and the big one for fullscreen-viewing)
Is it possible to resize a live-stream directly on the server at runtime??

Audio Cutout On Live Streams
I was under the impression that FMS gave priority to audio over video.

In a recent app that I built, it works fine most of the time, but on a few tests I have noticed that the audio can cut out. It doesn't unsync or anything, it just cuts out and stops working for brief periods of time.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has come across this and if so, did you find a solution?

Advice On Snaphots Of Live Streams
I've got a streaming video/audio app(CHAT). and everything is working nicely. I'm going to add a snapshot function to it and i'd love some pointers. There will be approx 100users, each user will have the options of taking snapshots either single shots or a few automated ones...I'm using FMS2

1. Are there any know issues recording parts of a live stream while it's streaming?
2. Should I use the same NC and record the FLV file/ CHAT instance then do a FLV -> FFMPEG -> jpg?
3. Should I make a new NC (and stop the live stream) to a different app(snapshot) and do the FLV->jpg there

And if you have any other good advice please let me know

BR

/A

Play Live Streams On FMS3
There is a problem when I just try to develop with FMS3.I find that the stream is not so fluency when use default settings.If I code "cam.setQuality(0,100)",the problem disapeared.After that,I try to code "ns.publish(***,"record")".Then I play the stream "***" ,It's fluency.I don't know why and how to fix the problem.

Live Streams Keeping Alive
Hello, I'm using HTTP Administration API to poll for a list of live streams and their status (getLiveStreams, getLiveStreamStats). I'm doing it quite often (5-10 seconds), this is part of server backend infrastructure. The problem is that it seems to prevent live streams from terminations. I see lots of live stream with empty <subscribers> list. When I stop polling and pause for a minute or so, they disappear.

Any suggestions how to get relevant list of live streams and their stats in a better way? How to fix existing solution, so it doesn't prevent live streams from termination (I guess it consumes extra system resources)? Any config parameter?

Recording Live Streams On FMS Remotely
Hi,

We're using FMSS 3 to stream live feeds from cameras. However, we'd also like to have the ability to (via an administration site) record these live streams and allow the user to view pre-recorded streams instead of the live ones.

Does anyone know of an example of how I can tell FMS to start recording a stream (via a web service or AS), and then how to stop it? Just for clarification - we don't want FMS to record a stream from the user's own camera. We want to record the live streams that are already streaming on FMS.

Thanks,
Filip Stanek
bloodforge.com

Problem While Playing Live Streams.
Hi everyone ,

i have two streams published by two different clients, if i want to play both the two streams in a third client how can i do that ..any help?

Client 1:

ns_out.publish("Stream1","live");

Client 2:

ns_out.publish("Stream2","live");

Client 3:

Here i want to play both the above streams published...

What code i can use ?

Authentication For Pushing Live Streams To FMS3
Hi there, I have setup FMS3 and use it to test my live streaming. But I was wondering is it possible on the FMS to setup an application for live stream, so that it checks for authentication before accepting the live stream for broadcast? What I mean is if I create a live application on FMS, anyone who knows this application name would be able to push the stream to FMS. Can FMS control this with a username and password? Thank you.

Memory Consumption On Playing Live Streams
The problem that we encountered is that when we play live streams from flash media server , the flash player process in task manager start getting bigger .. so after 1/2 h .. it already reaches 2GB memory ... thats kind of frustrating. The live stream that comes to the client is composed on the server on many stream .. when one flv file is done ...another begin..when the last one is done..the first one begins , so the client sees a live endless stream . The application is here http://www.mycinemasite.com , its an online cinema. We need this problem solved asap , so if anyone can help it would be great.

Thanks in advance ,
Adrian

Server-side Recording Of H.264 Live Streams
Hi there,
I just found out that the current version of FMS (3.0.1) does NOT record my live streams from FME when
using h.264. Is this something which will be available soon?

Phantom Menace - Live Streams Not Deleting
I'm seeing Live streams in FMS Manager that seem to be left over from disconnected clients, and don't go away until the application closes. I have the normal pairs of publishing streams and live streams (we're streaming the microphone from one user to another.) When we disconnect a client most of the streams go away, but some hang around, and it seems like it's usually from Firefox. So one of the phantom streams looks like this:
Name: u1
Type: Live
Stream Data: (blank)
Is there any way to get rid of these when the client that was publishing disconnects?

Stream.get() Creating Zombie Streams
I'll put my hand up right away and say that I'm using FCS 1.5, not FMS, but I'm happy to upgrade if it will solve this problem.

According to the documentation, Stream.get(<fname>) should return a new stream only if one with the name <fname> doesn't exits. This is not the case. I am currently looking at a Communication App Inspector screen which shows the same stream name playing 11 times, with the same Client ID. This results from chaining an existing live stream. My intention is to close the 'chaining' stream when it receives an UnpublishNotify event from the 'chained' stream by issuing a play(false). Even though trace statements show that the chained stream did indeed close, the Communication App Inspector shows it still there as a zombie. So every time I repeat the process, I get one more zombie.

I have event sent a notifcation to connected clients to stop playing the chained stream.

I would be grateful for help.

I am responding to an UnpublishNotify event from the first stream by

Mp3 Streams On Modem, Doesn't Stream On LAN?
My mp3 audio doesn't want to stream!!! I noticed that it streams alright when I'm connected through the 56k modem, but through the fast internet (and firewall) it streams NO SOUND! Why? Similar .swf apps which stream mp3 work perfectly well even behind the firewall.

My app - click here. Click the "ENTER" button and the sound should start to stream immediately - sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't - depending of a connection (in the lower left corner there's a streaming indicator).

[COLOR=royal blue]The way which the sound is initialized is "classic":

1) I make an empty MovieClip (soundMC) and drag it into stage.

2) Then I attach external mp3 into it ("sound1.mp3"):

sound1 = new Sound(soundMC);
sound1.attachSound("sound1.mp3");
sound1.setVolume(50);
[/color]

It works OK on my computer and through the modem, but through LAN/PROXY it doesn't ...

???

HOWTO: List Current Live Streams' Names
Hi All,

I'd like in my client side action script to list or enumerate all the names of streams currently live within a server application. I cannot see properties, methods, or events on either the client side NetStream class or the server side Stream class that might enable me to do this easily. My fallback position is for every client who successfully publishes a stream to add the name of the stream to a SharedObject and remove it when they stop. Is there a more straightfoward way?

Cheers,

Tim.

Live H.263/H.264 Video + Audio Streams Feed To FMS2
For a video conference application, how to feed the live H.263/H.264/G.711 A/V streams to FMS2 and thus broadcast live conference through FMS2? Any existing solutions available to refer?

Looks like we have to trans-code the A/V streams into flash video .flv format and feed the .flv stream to FMS2. If this is not feasible, we will have to use Apple's Darwin server to stream live mpeg4 streams.

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Live Stream
Hi, i have my own internet radio station and i would like to let people listen to it from my flash website so how can i do this.

Live Mp3 Stream
Hi, I'm working on this site: http://www.kalicious.com/projects/in...e/witr/launch/

I am using a live MP3 stream of the radio station so that I can play the live music and have the user ontrol the volume, but I am running into many problems with it.

For instance, when I compile the SWF in Flash, it compiles and then the entire flash environment immediatly crashes. When I run the swf in Flash player off my machine it works fine. When I run it embedded within HTML or uploaded to a server, the sound plays for a few seconds, then just stops. This is on PC.

On mac, on the other hand, it seems to always work fine in all situations.

I'm pretty sure this has something to do with Sandbox security settings, but I don't know much about this side of things. Does anyone out there know of a workaround for this problem?

Live Stream
hi friends,

I have live stream from media encoder to media server.I want to know how much of speed i want to live stream.
my encoding configurations are
size : 400X 300
FPS : 25
2 pass CBR
video bitrate :200kbps
audio 22050 Hz
bitrate :32 kbps

please help me to find a good internet connection....

When calculated the bitrate using adobe bitrate calculator ,it shows 288 kbps.

please help me to find out it...

regards
harilal

Live Stream
I can stream the content to the flash 3 server, but how does the end user connect to a live stream? Is it like a VOD application?

Live Stream With H.264
Hi,
It's possible use live stream video with codec h.264 without use FME 2.5 like encoder.
Exactly, is it possible create a flash application (exe) and use codec h.264 for live stream?

Thanks
Stefano

DVR Live Stream
Hi every body i need help i try to view live video from dvr which connected via local network and has an ip and there are 8 cameras connected to the dvr i want to use flash media server for streaming

Live Stream Help
Hi,

I have been doing a lot of Flash with progressive download and also streaming Flash but I have been asked to create a piece that uses live streaming Flash. I tried using the Flash Import wizard with the RTMP link that I was given but alas, it failed to work. I don't understand the live streaming video...

I am having troubles finding a tutorial on this. I looked at the Flash tutorials and only found the basics of using the Flash wizard.

Please help!

Thanks!
janst

Can Stream LIVE, But Can't Stream FLV -=
Hi there. Pulling out my hair...and i'm bald enough already!

I built a FLA that streams live from the FME - works great.

Cannot for the life of me figure out how to use the FLVPlayback (or anything for that matter) to stream a regular FLV.

Any help would be SO helpful!!

My fms and flv set up - ... applications/playapp/play.flv (also put in streams folder and _definst_ folder with play.flv in there just in case)

in the source, I have tried all variations - but is currently: rtmp://edge2.xxx.net/playapp/instance1

It demands an instance name, even though I don't know how that works (i know i put the source in FME with that, but this is an already made FLV).

Sincere thanks -
adam

Help With Live Stream Switcher
I want to be able to have several locations stream audio/video to a flash media server. I am using an adobe video switcher right now and it works great
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/ar..._switcher.html
but I need to be able to get the audio from a DV cam, which is not possible through the browser plugin. I am able to grab the audio from the DV cam when using Flash Media Encoder. When I stream from the encoder to the FMS, in the "switcher" swf, the stream does not appear in the list. So I think I just need the code to retrieve the list of streams on the FMS. Can anybody help? Thanks.

Detect Live Stream
Any ideas on why this code is not working? It never traces that the video is not found. Even when I put in a wrong address.

Attach Code

//------------Make Initial Connection-------------------//
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect("rtmp://flashmedia.administaff.com/live/");
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
ns.setBufferTime(0);
video.attachVideo(ns);
ns.play("livestream");

ns.onStatus = function(infoObject:Object):Void {
if (infoObject.code == "NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound") {
trace("Could not find video file.");
}else{
trace("Live is working!");
}
}

Can Not Connect To A Live Stream
I just can not get the live stream. I have two files, one sender and 1 subscriber. I'm working localy testing FMS.

I just have a video object on each stage and the actionscript:

sender:
var rtmpPath:String = new String();
rtmpPath = "rtmp:/test";

var ncBase:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
ncBase.connect(rtmpPath);

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(ncBase);
local_sender.attachVideo(Camera.get());
ns.publish("testVideo","live");

the video object instance name is local_sender.

the subscriber:
var rtmpPath:String = new String();
rtmpPath = "rtmp:/test";

var ncBase:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
ncBase.connect(rtmpPath);

var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(ncBase);
local_re.attachVideo(ns);
ns.play("testVideo");

I can see video from camera in the sender file but in the subscriber nothing.
In the flash media server console i can see 3 streams. one with the name i create and the other two generic, like CBAoQD6H...

how can test is the stream out is really going out and if so, if the stream in the problem?
I dont have a main.as file in my folder application. but i tried putting there one from the flash 8 samples and tutorials and didn't work.

any help will be very appreciated.

Thanks

Viewing A Live Stream From FMS
I'm using the Adobe Flash Video Encoder to send a live flash video stream to my FMS 2 (Developer Edition) on a Windows 2003 R2 Standard Edition Server

I'm connected to FMS and the encoder IS sending the video. When I look at the FMS Console its confirmed that I'm connected and publishing a LIVE video.

I can't view the video, which I thought was going to be the 'easy' part.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to configure a flash .swf embedded in a web page to VIEW the video.

IT"S MADDENING. I'm a bright guy, but in my opinion FMS is very poorly documented when it comes right down to telling you HOW to make things work.

Any help is appreciated.

I'm good with Flash, but I come from a Windows Media Server background. This is my first foray into FMS.

Mirroring A Live Stream
I need to take a live stream from a camera attached to server A, and mirror it to server B, so that local users on server B can view it. I don't want it saved to server B, I want it to remain live. I'm using a push model - server A sets this up.

I think that if I create a netconnection on server B looking back at server A I can use it to add a netstream attached directly to server A's camera. Is this correct?

I am as yet a very inexperienced Flash developer, and my efforts are impacted by the fact that I am now modifying someone else's code using someone else's design patterns.

Thanks.

Live Stream And Codecs
Hello.

Here is described how to use different codecs for different clients (Sorenson Spark for Flash Player 7- and On2 VP6 for Flash Player 8+).

http://livedocs.adobe.com/fms/2/docs/00000081.html

But as I can see, it is only suitable for recorded .flv files.

Is there any possibilities to customize stream delivery or live streams?
Can FMS2 transcode streams on the fly?

Thank you.

Sending Live Stream From One FMS To Another FMS
Hey,

Here's what I would like to do:
1. The Flash Media Encoder sends a live stream to FMS 1
2. On FMS 1, a connection to FMS 2 is set up and the live stream is sent to FMS 2.
3. Every second, a message with metadata is sent to FMS 2 using Stream.send()
4. A Client connecting to FMS 2 receives the stream and the metadata that was sent along with it.

I know this sounds pretty confusing, but the main problem is, that I don't have access to the FMS 2, so I can't call Stream.send() there. First I thought the solution would be using Stream.play() with a remote connection, but when I call the Stream.send() method nothing happens on the client side.

Then I thought I could do the whole thing by using a client side application that connects to FMS 1, receives the stream, embeds the metadata and publishes it to FMS 2. Here's the code I used:

// Connect to FMS 1 to get stream
client_nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/encoder_stream/room_01", "Client");

// Create input stream
in_ns = new NetStream(client_nc);

// Connect to FMS 2
akamai_nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/akamai/room_01", "Client");

// Create new stream, feed with in_ns and send to FMS2
out_ns = new NetStream(akamai_nc);
out_ns.publish("stream");
out_ns.attachVideo(in_ns);

Unfortunately the attachVideo method only accepts a camera and not a netstream object.
So this is where I'm standing now... anyone any ideas?
thanks

Buffering Of Live Stream
Hey guys, I noticed whenever my FME's connection to the FMS get laggy, the FME seems to buffer the stream. The streaming service hence becomes 'not live' as the users watch events that happened minutes ago. Is there any settings that I can apply to either the FMS or FME to prevent this? Currently, the only solution I could use is to stop the FME streaming and restart it, flushing out the buffered data.

Lag When Recording Live Stream
I am experiencing a very strange behavior from FMS
I am conducting a live conversation between 2 people using their webcams. One of the participants have a relatively slow computer (we think its the anti-virus). When conducting the live session everything seems to be fine... Still a bit slower than fast computers but still pretty good.

We are doing the following test:
We do a combined count from 1 to 20.
participant-1 counts "1" (this is the slow computer)
Only after hearing his count participant-2 counts "2"
Again, only after hearing his "2" participant-1 counts "3"
and so on...

so the count goes from participant-1 to the server and from there to participant-2 only then the "2" count leaves participant-2 to the server and so on...
This session is being recorded. What I am getting in the recored video is very strange...
I am getting participant-2 count before participant-1. So the count goes:
2,1,4,3,6,5 and so on

How is this possible to have the order correct on the live and not on the recorded?

Record Live Stream With Different Name
Hi all!

I have a live streaming application running with FMS2 and I have come across an issue with recording streams. My application allows a client (from a pool of multiple clients) viewing the stream to record the stream to the FMS server. I start the recording on the server side with the following (simplified) code:

application.recordStream = Stream.get(instanceName);

if (blnRecord)
{
// start recording
application.recordStream.record();
}
else
{
// stop recording
application.recordStream.record(false);
}

There is something that I'm having trouble with though - is there a way to record the stream with a different (unique) name rather than the instance name? I ask this because I need to have different names for each different recording session. Using file.renameTo( ) after the recording finishes works in theory, but in practice it seems that the recorded file is buffered before it is written to disk. So when the application.recordStream.record(false); line is invoked, trying to rename the file now is not possible, as it's still being written to the disk. It seems there is no way to know when the final, complete file has finally been written to the disk.

The problem here is that once the first recording is finished, another user can start the record process again. If the file has not been renamed or moved, the previous recording will be overwritten!

So, is it possible to record a stream, but save it to disk with a unique name?

Thanks in advance,
K.

Publish H.264 Live Stream
Hi all,

I'm currently trying Flash Media Server 3.0 with CS3 and Flash Player 9.0.115. Our goal is to implement a videoconferencing application with H.264 encoded video.

In the feature list, it's clearly stated that the server allows live publishing of H.264 content. I haven't seen any documentation on how to do this yet. I don't know if the player publish in H.264 by default or not?

Is it possible to do this?

Live Webcam Stream
I am new to the FMS....I have down loaded FMS3....I am also trying to get other to view me on my webcam through a website. My question is, do I need the Media Encoder for FMS3 or is that already included in it?

Any help will be great.

Thanks

Live Stream In Different Resolutions
hello,

I have an urgent question for the following purpose. We plan to develope a
solution consisting of a sender software for streaming live video to the streaming server. Now more than one client should be able to connect to the stream of the server. Because the different clients are connected with different bandwidth rates the server should be able to convert the video stream (e.g. the video width and height, framerate and quality) on the fly. Maybe a client with a better connection than DSL should get the video in a resolution of 640x480, a DSL client should get the video in 352x288 and a client with ISDN in 176x144.

Is there a possibility to do this with the FMS server on the server with server-side ActionScript? Or can I limit the requested stream size on the client side? Or anything I can do?

I hope anybody can answer my question quickly, its really really urgent.

Thanks in advance

FMS Live Stream Timeout
Can someone please advise on how to create a timeout to a FMS Live stream when using the FLVPlayback component in Flash. The FLVPlayback connects to a FMS Live stream that takes a live feed from a webcam, in order to preserve clients bandwidth, what would be the best, most reliable way of creating a timeout and disconnecting the live stream after a set period of say 30 minutes to stop clients leaving the stream permanently connected - server side on FMS (how?) or in the .swf or using code in the web page containing the .swf object.

Many thanks.

Multiple Out Streams From One Live In Stream

Hi,Just wondering is there a viable way to get FMS to stream out different bitreates from one live stream?/A