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(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.

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.

(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.

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

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

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

(Product update) Macromedia Flash Media Server 2.01

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

(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.

(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.