Comments on: Using the Flash Media Server Sample Video Play

By: nhippe

nhippe — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:01:04 +0000

This could be an issue with the way that you setup the encoder. Make sure that the encoder is setup to only buffer the amount of time you require.

By: nhippe

nhippe — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:54:31 +0000

The video needs to be formatted (encoded) as Flash video (flv or f4v).

By: David Yun

David Yun — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:12:59 +0000

Is there an issue with setBufferLength when used with Live streams? we are setting it to about 3 seconds, but it keeps growing infinitely to the point that some live viewers are well over 2 minutes behind live which is not a great experience.

By: Rush

Rush — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:35:48 +0000

Hi,

I am testing Flash Media Playback and try to play the following file below.

I have FTP 2.avi to my web server as the path below.

http://www.creativerush.com.au/2.avi

and when I embed the code below

http://fpdownload.adobe.com/strobe/FlashMediaPlayback.swf

I got an error message saying “We are unable to connect to content you`ve requested”

Could u tell me where did i went wrong with this?
Thank You n looking forward for your response,

Regards,

Rush

By: Reggie Bolden

Reggie Bolden — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:16:27 +0000

You’ve done it again. Great post!

By: nhippe

nhippe — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:53:45 +0000

This is a common problem. You need to make sure that there are not conflict between apache that is installed with FMS and IIS. The easiest way to do this is to simply use one or the other. The benefit of using apache that is installed with FMS is that you have all of the resources that are installed with FMS at your finger tips. Just direct your browser to localhost or the IP address of the server and you will see the FMS start page. You can change the configuration for apache to run on a different port but I would suggest that you run FMS on a dedicated server anyway.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:36:23 +0000

Hi Nick

I am presently running FMS on a dedicated windows box using 2Is as a web server. I have enabled Apache in FMS and I’m getting problems playing http files. Can I simply turn off 2Is and see what happens. Will I run into DNS and IP address problems with the server?

Thanks for your help

By: nhippe

nhippe — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:19:33 +0000

I hate to say it but I have not run into that error. The problem maybe that I am using Flex Builder. I will reimport the Flex project and see if I get the error this evening.

By: deepak

deepak — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:41:49 +0000

thanks master…..

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:51:25 +0000

Hi nhippe,

Thanks for your advice. I have downloaded the Flex SDK and tried dragging the videoPlayer.mxml file onto the mxmlc.exe file to compile but I keep getting an error – override public function play2(param:NetStreamPlayOptions):void – I have found a partial discussion regarding this on the Adobe site, but no conclusion on fixing it. Once the error comes up, the command window closes and that’s it. Have you seen this before? Thanks Tim