Posts in Category "Flash Communication Server"

Outbound service requests queue up and come back in groups of ten

Posted on August 25, 2006 by dmorris | Comments (0)

(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.

Creating a video player using the state design pattern and ActionScript 3.0

Posted on July 31, 2006 by gfox | Comments (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.

Flash Media Server does not start after successful installation on RedHat Linux

Posted on July 14, 2006 by dmorris | Comments (0)

(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.

Implementing a dual-threshold buffering strategy in Flash Media Server

Posted on July 10, 2006 by gfox | Comments (0)

Achieve fast start times for streaming video while maintaining resilience to bandwidth fluctuations.

Manipulating web services with Flash Media Server

Posted on May 22, 2006 by gfox | Comments (0)

Learn to use web services in Flash Media Server 2 to interface with complex result sets.

Using Remote Methods with Flash Media Server

Posted on April 10, 2006 by gfox | Comments (0)

Go beyond Flash video streaming by invoking remote methods on the server or another client.

Flash Media Server 2.0.1 released

Posted on February 20, 2006 by dmorris | Comments (0)

(Product update) Macromedia Flash Media Server 2.01

MPSB05-09 Security Patch for Insufficient Validation in Flash Communication Server

Posted on November 16, 2005 by dmorris | Comments (0)

(Security Bulletin) Flash Communication Server MX does not sufficiently validate some RTMP data. This can cause server instability or crashes.

Enhanced Seek appears not to work with Flash Communication Server 1.5 and VP6

Posted on October 11, 2005 by dmorris | Comments (0)

(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.

Flash 8 FLVPlayback component support for Video Streaming with Flash Communication Server and Flash Media Server

Posted on October 3, 2005 by dmorris | Comments (0)

(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.