Chapter 2: Streaming Services; Using The Live Service - Adobe 65029121 - Flash Media Streaming Server Developer's Manual

Chapter 2: Streaming services

All editions of Flash Media Server 3 provide two streaming services, live (live video) and vod (video on demand).
These services are implemented as server-side components of Flash Media Server applications. Sample clients for
both services are installed with the server. You can modify the sample clients for production use or create your own.
The live and vod services are signed (approved) by Adobe. Flash Media Streaming Server only supports signed
services—it cannot run other applications. Flash Media Interactive Server and Flash Media Development Server
support signed services as well as any other applications you create.
Both services can be duplicated and renamed as needed to create multiple publishing points and to provision
customers. There is no limit to the number of service instances a server can support.

Using the live service

About the live service
The live service is a publishing point on Flash Media Server. You can use Flash Media Encoder to capture, encode,
and stream live video to the live service and play the video with the sample client or with the FLVPlayback
component. You can also build your own application to capture video and your own client application to play the
video.
The following live video sources can publish to the live service:
•
Flash Media Encoder 2.0
Note: Only Flash Media Interactive Server and Flash Media Development Server support Flash Media Encoder
Authentication Add-in.
•
Flash Media Interactive Server and Flash Media Development Server (see
•
A custom-built Flash Player application that records audio and video
Test the live service
Connect a camera to the computer.
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Open Flash Media Encoder and click Start.
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By default, Flash Media Encoder publishes a stream to the default live publishing point on the same computer,
rtmp://localhost/live
Double-click the RootInstall/samples/applications/live/livetest.html file to open the client application in a
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browser and see the live stream.
To use the FLVPlayback component as the client, set the
point and the stream name (
to .
true
, and publishes a stream named
rtmp//localhost/live/livestream
Publish from server to
.
livestream
parameter to the URL of the publishing
contentPath
, by default) and set the
server)
parameter
isLive
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