August 25, 2006
Outbound service requests queue up and come back in groups of ten
(TechNote) Some Flash Media Server applications use Flash Remoting, plain HTTP or web services to receive information from external systems. When the external service responds slowly (> 5 sec) and if Flash Media Server applications make extensive use of calling external services, this may result in a problem as requests seem to queue up and are returned in groups of ten. This may cause long queues and cause slow end user experience.
Posted by dmorris at 7:59 AM
July 31, 2006
Creating a video player using the state design pattern and ActionScript 3.0
Learn about design patterns from this simple state machine that starts and stops a video, and then adapt it to run on Flash Media Server 2 by adding more states and player controls.
Posted by gfox at 3:39 PM
July 14, 2006
Flash Media Server does not start after successful installation on RedHat Linux
(TechNote) In some cases, Flash Media Server does not start up correctly although there were no errors during the installation and there are no errors in the log files because the server is not yet in a state where sufficiently verbose logging can occur.
Posted by dmorris at 6:39 AM
July 10, 2006
Implementing a dual-threshold buffering strategy in Flash Media Server
Achieve fast start times for streaming video while maintaining resilience to bandwidth fluctuations.
Posted by gfox at 5:13 PM
May 22, 2006
Manipulating web services with Flash Media Server
Learn to use web services in Flash Media Server 2 to interface with complex result sets.
Posted by gfox at 4:17 PM
April 10, 2006
Using Remote Methods with Flash Media Server
Go beyond Flash video streaming by invoking remote methods on the server or another client.
Posted by gfox at 4:27 PM
February 20, 2006
Flash Media Server 2.0.1 released
(Product update) Macromedia Flash Media Server 2.01
Posted by dmorris at 4:58 AM
November 16, 2005
MPSB05-09 Security Patch for Insufficient Validation in Flash Communication Server
(Security Bulletin) Flash Communication Server MX does not sufficiently validate some RTMP data. This can cause server instability or crashes.
Posted by dmorris at 5:59 AM
October 11, 2005
Enhanced Seek appears not to work with Flash Communication Server 1.5 and VP6
(TechNote) The enhanced seek option in Flash Communication Server MX 1.5 appears to not work with FLVs encoded with Flash 8 / VP6 video codec.
Posted by dmorris at 5:47 AM
October 3, 2005
Flash 8 FLVPlayback component support for Video Streaming with Flash Communication Server and Flash Media Server
(TechNote) The Flash 8 Professional authoring tool includes a new component for playing back Flash Video assets. This new component, FLVPlayback, supports progressive download video as well as streaming video via Flash Communication Server MX and Flash Media Server 2. The FLVPlayback component doesn't work as MediaPlayback component in Flash MX 2004 used to for streaming video. It requires additional configuration for streaming video.
Posted by dmorris at 2:01 PM
Issues with RTMP tunneling through proxy servers
(TechNote) Flash Communication Server uses the RTMP protocol (Real Time Message Protocol), which is Macromedia's proprietary TCP/IP protocol for streaming and data services. There are several issues to be aware of when setting up a Proxy Server to allow RTMP connections to tunnel through.
Posted by dmorris at 1:50 PM
September 26, 2005
Security error with Flash Player 8 when running Flash Communication Server Admin Console and Application Inspector
(TechNote) Macromedia Flash Player 8 introduced an updated security model and changed default local file access policy. Due to this change, when you run a Flash application from the local file system, you will get a security alert box. This article describes how to configure the Flash Player security settings to avoid this issue.
Posted by dmorris at 1:04 PM
July 11, 2005
Peldi's Coding Cafe: Flash Communication Server Best Practices
(Developer Center) Macromedia engineer Peldi Guilizzoni guides you through building an interactive application with streaming video in this Macrochat.
Posted by cantrell at 2:26 PM