One more for the archive: main.asc also has to be in the application
directory (in my case, LT) for the flvplayback to work (as mentioned by
Muzak and martin). A copy of main.asc can be found in Program
Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and
Tutorials\Samples\Components\FLVPlayback. Then either the app has to be
restarted with the App Inspector or if it's not used for 20 minutes, it
will be restarted automatically. (Thanks again, Muzak)
On a totally unrelated note, this is pretty cool, JG (and I thought you
were just Mr Xray :)
http://www.rockonflash.com/demos/MidiDemo/DreamTheater_FITC.html
Helen Triolo wrote:
Well, I'm an idjit, but for the archives, the contentPath for
FLVPlayer is the same as the setMedia specification for MediaPlayback,
but you have to upload the skin swf that the FLVPlayer is using
(specified in parameters or code) for the controls and the video to
actually show up. And for those who may not now about these pages,
there are updates for FLVPlayer and for FCS and other related things at:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashmediaserver/downloads_updaters.html
and
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html
Thank you to martin coulthurst and Muzak for those links and your
suggestions and help offlist.
Helen
Helen Triolo wrote:
Thanks. This is using FCS, I should've mentioned, not FMS2. It
looks to me from the help that the flv extension is required. So to
shorten my question, it's
for a file accessible with setMedia("rtmp:/LT/myfile.flv") using
MediaPlayback
what is the correct contentPath for FLVPlayback?
(FCS, streaming video, webserver on same machine as FCS)
Helen
Dan Styles wrote:
I had a problem like this recently
Try without the .flv part... you may not need the extension when
using Flash
Media Server
also check this:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=578&threadid=1228512&enterthread=y
and this:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00003495.html
QUOTE:
I recently went through this difficulty with Flash Media Server 2
(not the
earlier FCS), in order to get the FLV Playback component to stream
videos
using FMS2 from another folder not under the default applications
folder,
you'll need to map a virtual directory by altering "vHost.xml" kept
in this
location: "Flash Media Server
2/conf/_defaultRoot_/_defaultVHost_/vHost.xml"
In "vHost.xml" there is a tag <VirtualDirectory> and under that
<Streams>.
When you add a virtual directory to FMS2 you should add to the
streams tag
something like this:
<VirtualDirectory>
<Streams>bar;C:\streams</Streams>
<VirtualDirectory>
Then you'll need to add a folder under the default applications
directory of
FMS (or whatever custom applications directory you're using) with
whatever
name you choose (say for example "foo"), then make sure you place the
main.asc for the FLVPlayback component which ships with Flash 8 in
this new
folder, you can find this main.asc file in the location given in the
doc
above. No streams should go in this "foo" folder, and no extra
subfolders
are needed here, but your streams (in this example) should be
located at
c:\streams
Then when playing back a .flv (called, for example "yourVid.flv")
using the
FLVPlayback component, the contentPath should be something like this:
rtmp://localhost/foo/bar/yourVid.flv
FMS connects first to localhost (or whatever IP the streaming server is
located), then checks the app name "foo",finding it, it then looks
for a
virtual mapping, if any, in this case "bar", then finding the path
mapped
out in the vHost.xml to C:\streams it gets the flv file
"yourVid.flv" from
the folder c:\streams.
END QUOTE
YOU WROTE:
I can't get the FLVPlayback component to display the streamed videos
that are working fine with the MediaPlayback component. For the
latter,
I use
setMedia("rtmp:/LT/myfile.flv")
but there is no setMedia command for FLVPlayback, only contentPath, and
setting it to the above doesn't work, nor did setting contentPath =
"rtmp://<server address>/LT/myfile.flv" or "rtmp://<server
address>/LT/stream/_definst_/myfile.flv" -- the video never shows up.
Any suggestions?
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