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FMS 4 setup help


Thread posted 12/07/10 by switchman77
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FMS 4 setup help

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I am trying to live stream from a ViewCast 2120 encoder through FMS 4.  The ViewCast is indicating that the stream is publishing.  The server seems to see the stream as connected but I am having trouble figuring out how to access the stream from a client.  FMS 4 indicates:

"Accepted a connection form IP: 64.71.218.231, referrer rtmp://64.71.218.9/live, page url:"

Since it doesn't give me a URL, is there some additional provisioning that I need to put in there to specify where to serve it up?  This is a trial version of the software and I have accessed the Flash Media Server Administration Console but configuration options in the console seem pretty limited unless I am missing something.  Some guides show editing a conf file. 

I am completely new to FMS4, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

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posted 12/07/10 by zarihs Rawna | Report Abuse

Hi, From your post it is not clear to me how are you trying to watch the content of your live streaming video. Well, FMS4 installs with a sample swf player that can be used to play your streaming video. You can find this player at <FMS_Install_Folder>/samples/videoplayer/videoplayer.html Launch this player in a browser, put your rtmp url (in your case it seems to be - rtmp://64.71.218.9/live/<your_streamname> ). If you are publishing your streams in any of the FLV, MP4 or F4V format you would be able to play it using this video player. Videoplayer.html page has a description as how to play streams in different format. Please give it a shot and let me know if you face any trouble. Hope this will help. Regards, Shiraz Anwar

posted 12/08/10 by switchman77 | Report Abuse

Zarihs, Thanks for the comments on how to hit the sample video player. I was unfamiliar with how to establish the code to tell a browser where to find the stream so that is exactly the tip I needed. Through a few more hours of research and consulting with the technician that handles our in house web page I think I am on the right track now. I just need to build anappropriate web page.