Flash :: Why Fms3 Edge Mode Can't Not Work Like Fms2 ?

Upgrade To FMS3 From FMS2?
My company would benefit greatly from being able to stream movies directly from mp4 files, which from what I understand FMS3 and Flash CS3 can do. Currently we have to convert all videos to FLVs, and being able to cut out that step would be a big help for us.

So I just want to make sure that to get that ability, do we need to upgrade from FMS2 and Flash MX 2004 to FMS3 and Flash CS3?

FMS3 From FMS2 Problems
We just made an upgrade from FMS2 to FMS3 and the videos have stopped streaming. The connection to the FMS server is good, but I'm getting an error now that I can't find the video stream? Nothing has changed but the FMS server upgrade. Is there a common issue when upgrading that I don't know about? I have a test video sitting in the _definist_ folder for testing and my as3 code looks like this:

connection = new NetConnection();
connection.client = this;
connection.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatusHandler);
connection.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, securityErrorHandler);
connection.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, asyncErrorHandler);
connection.connect(targetURI);

function netStatusHandler(event:NetStatusEvent):void){
switch (event.info.code) {
case "NetConnection.Connect.Success" :streamVideo();
break;
}

function streamVideo(){
ns = new NetStream(connection);
ns.client = myClient;
ns.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatusHandler);
ns.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, asyncErrorHandler);
vid.attachNetStream(ns);
ns.play(String(playerData.videoName),0,-1);
ns.bufferTime = _startBufferTime;

myClient.onMetaData = metaDataHandler;

}

public function onBWDone():void{} <----- I was getting a can't find onBWDone error when I switched to FMS3 so I added this line: connection.client = this; and this onBWDone method you see here,.. and removed this line: NetConnection.defaultObjectEncoding = flash.net.ObjectEncoding.AMF0;. I don't know if this has anything to do with it?

Thanks
DrewText

Problem Porting App From FMS2 To FMS3
Hi all,

I've been trying to port a flex app from FMS2 to FMS3 and I'm having a huge issue. It is a video conferencing app and it works just fine in FMS2, but once in FMS3, whenever more than 3 people try to login, I get a "NetStream.Publish.BadName" error. The stream names are definitely different. That said, when I open up FMS3, I see a whole bunch of "extra" streams with garbage names, that are clients of the streams I created. I believe these garbage names start to conflict after the third user. What do I do to fix this?

While I can't post code due to company policy, this sample on the web also exhibits the same issues, and does the connections very similar to me. http://www.mydattoli.com/test/DCCVideoConference/main.html#

Also, I am using Flex 3, with AMF3 turned on. If someone could point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason

Step Between FMS2.0 And Orion/edge For Video Chat
We are planing a deployment of 4 FMS 2.0 Pro boxes with hardware load balancing on port 1935 working successfully.

This allows for vertical scaling as we grow.

Our troubles are comming in video chat. I cant cluster chat till Orion/Edge, but our needs are just barely outside a single box configuration. Has anyone mastered video/chat pre-clusterd solutions?

thanks!

FMS2 Enhanced Seek Doesn't Work For VP6
Hi All,

First time poster. I was wondering if anyone knows why enhanced seek using netstream (ns.play) method doesn't seem to work?

For example I want to play a sample clip starting at 15 second mark and for length of only 20 seconds I should be able to use this.

ns.play("some_video",15,20);

and I find it works perfectly fine on sparc codec (immediate playback) but with VP6 it's just blank for about 15 seconds then it starts to play. It's almost like it actually is playing from the 0s mark but doesn't show anything until 15 seconds have elapsed.

So I decided to play around a bit with using ns.seek and ns.play and discovered this.

ns.play("some_video",0,35);
ns.seek(15);

so it seems by doing this it will play from the 15s mark and end at the 35s mark.
it works well enough, just wondering if anyone knows why it won't work with the first example?

Regards,

Adam Walsworth

Flash App Won't Work In 56k Mode
I have a simple flash application that I am working on. It's already posted live but sometimes it fails to load the images. All it does it load images to click on to take you to different sites. You can click next to view the next image and prev to view the previous image. The problem being that it loads fine and works great until you try it in 56k mode. When you try it is 56K mode it loads the next and prev buttons but the bottom part is just blank. When I use the flash tester I get a compiler error:

Error opening URL 'file:///taz/Employees/Ryan/New%5FDining%5FStuff/restaurant%5Ffeature/undefined'

I don't know what is going on. I have a preloader and it seems to be working perfectly accept that when it is done loading in 56k mode I get the same problem with the image not showing up and the error above. When not in 56k mode it loads so fast you don't see the preloader and everything works perfectly. I am using action script 2. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

Edge To Edge Collision Detection
hi
is there a way to do edge to edge collision detection of two movie clips? I am trying to detect when my first MC hits my second one but the clips might be on a diagonal angle and so i need to use the actual MC and not the bounding box. I tried using true but it doesn't work. Basically i have a MC you can drive around and another which is a shed. I want to park in the shed but only through the open door. If you hit the wall i want the first MC to stop. But the shed is on and angle and so the wall is angled. How do I get this to work?
thanks anyone

[F8] Sound Playback In Work Mode
Hello all! Desperate asap help needed!

I'm putting together an app. which plays sound while showing some pictures then lets the user click 'next' and the next scene does the same. I'm trying to have the pictures move in time with the sound, when in _work mode_ I press 'enter' and it plays fine, but when I press 'enter' again to stop it, the pictures stop but the sound keeps going untill it finishes. It's incredibly frustrating as the sound clip is 4 minutes long.

I'm also having problems with the 'next' and 'back' buttons going through scenes, one moment they'll work, the next they won't, or go to a random scene. Is this a flash thing? And am I better off flicking between movie clips instead of scenes?

How Work This Blend Mode Mathematically ?
hi all

i need to know how work this Blend Mode :
Layer, Overlay, Hard light, Add, Subtract, Difference, Invert, Alpha & Erase . Mathematically ?

Regards
Crimson

Scale Mode NO_SCALE Does Not Work ?
I have the following code attached to an AS3 FLA with only a Text Field dropped on it at x=1 and y=1. The text scales! This doesn't make sense. Can anyone point out the oversight?

ActionScript Code:
package {
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.StageAlign;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;

public class ScaleTest extends Sprite {

public function ScaleTest() {
if (stage) {
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, onStageResize, false, 0, true);
width = stage.stageWidth;
height = stage.stageHeight;
}
}

protected function onStageResize(e:Event) {
if (stage) {
width = stage.stageWidth;
height = stage.stageHeight;
}
}

} // class
} // package

How Work This Blend Mode Mathematically ?
hi,

i need to know how work this Blend Mode :
Layer, Overlay, Hard light, Add, Subtract, Difference, Invert, Alpha & Erase . Mathematically ?

Regards
Crimson

Alpha Blend Mode Just Won't Work [file Example]
Update: I've solved it, for some reason the mask MUST be bitmaped cached (does anyone know why)? It's weird because Erase doesn't need to be that.

This is driving me nuts, how on earth does the alpha blend mode work?
I have finecombed all of the entire internet after info but I can't find the magic answer.

I have set up a test-scene (attached) where I've set it up EXACTLY like described in the manual, so could someone please open it and:
1) See what I've done wrong, or:
2) See if maybe it's working perfectly for you (without modifications), which in that case means something is wrong with my flash.

It's a movie clip set to Layer blend mode, which has 2 children: one green box (no blendmode) and one smaller box (blendmode Alpha).
When running the movie, that smaller box should work as the mask for the green, but it doesn't!
If I change that into Erase instead, it works perfectly, but I need the alpha blendmode to work as well!

Masks Work In Preview, Not In Test Movie Mode
Does anyone know a reason why a mask would work when i run the timeline (by hitting the enter button) but if i "test movie" the mask does not work?

is there a switch or something? i can't figure this out...

Why Don't My Roll-overs Work In Full Screen Mode?
As the title suggests, this is a pretty simple one - my button rollover / rollout states don't work when the site is in full screen mode, although the onRelease functions still do...

Any ideas?

Making Monitor Ratio Work With Fullscreen Mode
Hi everyone,

I'm creating a presentation in Flash that will be projected onto a large screen. I'm using fscommand("fullscreen", true) to make it fullscreen. Since I don't know in advance what type of playback monitor will be used, apparently there may be some issue with the monitor ratio not being 4:3 which would make it widescreen. I was told to make sure the animation etc extends beyond the Stage frame so that it accommodates widescreen but I'm not sure how to do this - I mean how do you know how far beyond the stage to extend things? Since I don't have access to the playback monitor I can't test on it and the presentation will eventually be put onto a CD ROM where viewers may have all types of monitors. So I guess the question is how can I be sure it'll look correct on all monitors in fullscreen mode?

Would really appreciate any advice.

Thanks

Keys Don't Work W/ WMODE (window Mode) In Mozilla
In my publish settings ive adjusted my Window Mode to transparent to prevent 10-30% slow down that usually occurs in a browser. however, in mozilla, the movie still runs slower and a whole bunch of scripts dont run.

ive heard this is a common problem and that i can be fixed but i cant find out how anywhere on the net. can someone please help me? it works in internet explorer.

FMS3.0 -> FMS3.5 Have To Pay For The Upgrade?
Do I have to pay for the upgrade from 3.0 to 3.5?

Edge Disconnect From Core Then Core Disconnected From Edge Then None Reconnection.
Hi all,

I've a problem with rtmpt protocol on latest release of FMS.

There's a huge traffic on our server and suddenly we receive:

Edge disconnected from Core (995)
Core disconnected from Edge
Core (8714) is no longer active.

Then Core and Edge entities can't restart.

Could you help us to understand this fact, because our server disconnect all clients then doesn't work anymore.

Jeho

Edge To Edge Positioning
Hi guys,
I'll try to explain my try here.
I have to 2 or more circles on the stage that ramdonly will be place somewhere on the stage and so far nothing complicate. Let's say I don't want them to overlap eachother and using hitTest and getBounds is not so difficult. But my question is this one: How can I set the hit edges of the circles instead of using the bounding boxes?I don't want them to overlap but I want them to be placed even edge to edge on the stage.
Clear? ...hope so.

Thanks

Question: How Do I Go From Expert Mode To Normal Mode And Visa Versa
in the Actionscript pane? I own Flash MX 2004 Professional. Thanks for your time!

Normal Mode Vs. Expert Mode? And Actionscript In General.
If anyone can help, please do because I'm going crazy and I've been losing sleep and going through some mild depression. I know it sounds ridiculous, but actionscript is not my friend right now. I'm a designer, not a programmer and I'm just NOT getting actionscript. I've purchased 3 books on the subject and I'm still confused. One book will tell me to start off using "Normal Mode" so I can just select the actions on the left side of the "actions window". Another book will tell that I should immediately switch to "Expert Mode" because that's the best way to learn actionscript.
I'd rather learn how to type in the code instead of clicking on pre-made actions. I was wondering if you guys actually type all of your code in manually or do you occasionally use the given commands on the left side. I need to know so I can decide on how to approach actionscript.
Another thing, does anyone know a good on-line site where I could get the basics of actionscript. To be honest, what I need actionscript to do for me right now is to build a simple horizontal sliding menu. I've plenty of these on several "tutorial" sites but I want to make my own but I need the basic knowledge to do so. What should I start to learn right off the bat? Variables, properties...? Oh, and when I want to set a variable do I type var = x; or do I type Set variable = x. I'm confused. Please help.

-MX04 Actionscript Normal Mode&expert Mode?
I have just starting Flash MX 2004 and cannot figure out to switch in the actionscript between between normal mode and expert mode.

Does anybody know how?

Action Script - Normal Mode Vs Expert Mode
Hi I am still using flash MX as when I upgraded to flash MX 2004 profesional have found it really difficult to actionscript since I never found the way how to switch to the normal mode available in Flash MX does it exist or has it been completly removed ?

Does flash 8 has the same feature missing ?

silv

Normal Mode And Expert Mode-Not To Be Found In MX.?
The two modes Normal and expert modes, that were of great use is not to be seen in MX 2004. How is it?

Simple Mode And Advanced Mode In Flash
This is something i've been putting up with so long now, i'm far from fluent in actionscript even the basics I tend to forget if I haven't used flash for a while but in other releases of flash their has always been too modes for actionscripting - advanced mode and simple mode. With flash mx (2004 pro) I have looked and looked and scoured google and i've never been able to find out how to change it to simple mode. I prefer being able to just choose from a dropdown or a list or whatever it is what actions I want rather than typing it all in myself. I'm even thinking of going back a few versions of flash to get this feature back. I haven't used flash for a good 7/8 months now and i'm struggling to do simple things like rollovers leading to different scenes.

this is what it looks like in previous versions of flash:

but in mx it isn't their now and i've looede through all the preferences:

cheers
sam

Toggling Between Expert Mode And Normal Mode?
toggling between expert mode and normal mode?

I just switched from MX to MX 2004. BIG improvement but as you all know when you switch programs there is a learning curve. Is there a way to switch back and forth between normal mode and expert mode in you r action script panel? It seems to only have expert mode and I by no means am an expert scripter.

Any help?

thanks

Action Mode In Advanced Mode
Hi!
I got flash mx 2004 and since I am a newbie I want the Action mode in "newbie-mode". this was possible in the earlier version of flash.

so is something like this possible in flas mx 2004?

/thanx for answering, SanTiago_99

Expert Mode > Normal Mode
I have flash professional 2004, i was just wondering if there is an option to get it back into normal mode, besides expert mode???

Making The Swf Movie To Play In 100% Mode Rather In "show All" Mode
Hi ...at present i am creating a demo with innumerous bitmaps taken from a screen cam....the quality is really good...my problem is..when i export the movie and play the swf in a flash it plays in the "show all" mode and hence the quality of the images is distorted....

Can there be a way to make all swf's play in the 100 % mode by default....

thank you in advance...and please help as this is an urgent project....

Movie Works Properly In Test Mode, But Only In Test Mode.
I have a button that has a gotoAndStop action, sending user to specific label in the timeline. This button works fine when I test the movie. But when I open the file directly from the swf - well, it's strange. It appears to go to that frame, but the contents of the frame is missing. What might be the problem? Again, it all works fine when I test it (Ctrl+Enter.)

thanks.

FMS2 And CS3
I've been beating my head against the wall on trying to get a simple video streaming going with CS3 and FMS2.
Are there any "HelloWorld" type tutorials for this? I have found some on the web bu they all are Flash 8, and I can't seem to get them to work with my setup. For one thing, I don't even know if the main.asc is the same for CS3 as for Flash 8. All the tutorials say that you should use the one in the Flash 8 samples directory, but I am on CS3 not Flash 8.

I even tried to find some books on it, but once again, they all seem to be for previous versions, so I don't know if I should spend the money if they won't work on my versions of the environment...

Any thoughts?

Cannot Connect To FMS2
I just started with FMS and I tried to connect to it to test out the install.

On the serverside, I created a main.asc which contains:

application.onConnect = function(client)
{
trace("hello");
application.acceptConnection(client);
};

On the client side I just have:

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

I run this from the Flash CS3 environment by doing "Test Movie". I can see the trace() message in the FMS log console, but I get an Connect.Failed message on the client.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

About FMS2 Connection
Hi all

i want to publish microphone audio to the server but failed. stream always show "live" on fms2_console, and no flv is published on server.
this is my client-script:

Code:
import flash.net.*;
import flash.events.*;
stop();

NetConnection.defaultObjectEncoding = ObjectEncoding.AMF0;
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
var ns:NetStream;
function ncHandler(eve:NetStatusEvent):void
{
trace(eve.info.code);
if(eve.info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success")
{
ns = new NetStream(nc);
ns.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, nsHandler);
ns.attachAudio(Microphone.getMicrophone());
ns.publish("blackcamera", "record");
}
}

function nsHandler(eve:NetStatusEvent):void
{
trace(eve.info.code)
}

nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, ncHandler);
nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/myApplication");
then, i create a folder called "myApplication" on server root but not create main.asc(i don't think it's necessary).

i run the client and trace "NetConnection.Connect.Success
" and "NetStream.Publish.Start". the server works well but the stream' type always "live", and the bandwidth shows nothing.

thanks

Streaming Flv With Fms2
This is driving me crazy.

I'm trying to run everything locally for now just to test this. So I just run test movie from flash.

Here is my code:

ActionScript Code:
nc = new NetConnection();

nc.onStatus = function(info){
connect_text.text = info.code;
var ns:NetStream = new NetStream(nc);
ns.play("test.flv");
flv_video.attachVideo(ns);
};
nc.connect("rtmp:/test/");

my file is under the applications folder in a folder called test so the path looks like this:

C:Program FilesMacromediaFlash Media Server 2applications est est.flv
I also have the main.asc in this directory.
(I've also tried putting the file in other locations such as est\_definst_ est.flv)

I am getting success back from the net connection but the video never plays and when I push the play button I get this error:

1000: Unable to make connection to server or to find FLV on server

From everything that I've read this should be working but I'm having no luck.

Can anybody see what I'm doing wrong or is there some external issue that I need to be aware of?

Fms2 + As3 Video
Hello-

I was wondering if/how you can make a video player using as3 that plays videos using fms2?

I have been trying to find tutorials or some documentation somewhere, with no luck.

FMS2 Needs Libstdc++.so.5
Hi there,

While installing my very expensive Flash Media Server 2, I get a problem, I
can't realy fix...

----

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4)

# ./installFMS -platformWarnOnly
./fmsini: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

ERROR: Your are running the Macromedia Flash Media Server installer
on the wrong platform.

]# l /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 13 13:45 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 ->
libstdc++.so.5.0.7*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 827944 Dec 1 2004 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 21 13:00 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 ->
libstdc++.so.6.0.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 910744 May 24 2006 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.3*

----------

so libstdc++.so.5 is installed. And Adobe says, the FMS2 runs on Red Hat ES
4... so what about "wrong platform"? Maybe because I'm using the 64bit
version? But Adobe doesn't say the FMS needs 32bits...

Has anybody experienced the same problem and maybe has a solution?

Greets
Uli

FMS2 On Linux
Hi!

I installed Flash Media Server 2 developer version on my Debian Sarge PC. I try to manage and use it now and i try to connect to the admin service but it fails.

I put the fms2_console.swf and fms2_console.html file in my web server directory and i connected from another machine on the local network like this : http://192.168.1.10/admin/fms/, put the server adress (192.168.1.10:1111), my admin name and password but a window tells me that the login is incorrect. I checked it in the fms.ini config file and the admin and pass are good!

So what happened?

Thanks!

Nicolas (French user)

Help On FMS2 Streaming.
Hi,

I managed to install FMS2 on a linux server, I can connect to it by using the console, but I don't really know how to do what I need.

My questions are:
Where do the videos go?
could I stream a range of videos within a folder?
Do I need to Install an aplication?

My goal is:
I have a mediaplayer embed on a web page that is used to display several different videos, right now, this player is progressive downloading the videos, but I would like it to stream them.

Can you guys point me to the right direccion?

Thanks,

-David

FMS2 Needs Stdlibc++.so.5
Hi there,

While installing my very expensive Flash Media Server 2, I get a problem, I
can't realy fix...

----

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4)

# ./installFMS -platformWarnOnly
./fmsini: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

ERROR: Your are running the Macromedia Flash Media Server installer
on the wrong platform.

]# l /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 13 13:45 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 ->
libstdc++.so.5.0.7*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 827944 Dec 1 2004 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 21 13:00 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 ->
libstdc++.so.6.0.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 910744 May 24 2006 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.3*

----------

so libstdc++.so.5 is installed. And Adobe says, the FMS2 runs on Red Hat ES
4... so what about "wrong platform"? Maybe because I'm using the 64bit
version? But Adobe doesn't say the FMS needs 32bits...

Has anybody experienced the same problem and maybe has a solution?

Greets
Uli

FMS2 And Web Camera
Hello, all!
I have a question on FMS2.
I have a web cam with MPEG4 or MJPEG streaming output format.
Does can FMS2 on-the-fly convert these formats in VP6/7?

Thanks.

PS: Sorry for my bad English.

Install Fms2 Help
I'm installing fms2 for the first time on a Redhat EL4 server (update 4). The install went pretty smoothly and I've started the admin port up, but when I connect to the admin port (via IE or Firefox) I get the following message:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <result>
<level>error</level>
<code>NetConnection.Connect.Rejected</code>
<description>Admin user requires valid username and password.</description>
<timestamp>Tue 13 Mar 2007 02:47:23 PM CDT</timestamp>
</result>

I'm pretty sure this points to something in an apache config. What do I need to install or configure?

thanks.

Actionscript 3.0 And FMS2
Can i use Actionscript 3.0 to connect to RMTP?
Because NetStatusEvent always return netConnection.Connect.Failed when i use :
my_nc.connect("rtmp://127.0.0.1/tutorial_hello")

Which works fine with Actionscript 2.0

ThaNKS.

FMS2 Configuration
Hi
we trying to setup FMS2 for the first time, our infrastructure look like this

<FireWall> ---> <Web Server> ---> <Back end Server>
1)is it better to setup the FMS in the Web server or on the backend server?
2)should i use port 80 or only port 1935 (the web server runs more than one site)
3) is my contentpath shoud be "rtmp://www.mysitename.com/Mystreams/Flash.flv", i mean how can i access the server via the internet?

SNMP For FMS2?
Simple question really, since the fms_console.swf page is not the most effective way to manage multiple FMS servers. Is there a MIB or other way to monitor FMS2 via SNMP, or does it have any remote monitoring facilities other than the SWF?

Using A Player With FMS2
I am using Flash Media Server 2 to try to play .flv meetings through the ccPlayer (here). My problem is that the ccPlayer does not come with its .fla file so I can not connect it to the FMS through the ActionScript. I was wondering if there was any way I could connect my .flv movies to the FMS without having to go through the player's source.