Lisa Larson-Kelley began her career in print design, but was soon lured to digital media by a little application called Flash 4. In addition to hands-on development projects, she enjoys writing and teaching, with a knack for breaking down complex concepts and making them accessible. She has authored whitepapers, tutorials and e-seminars for Adobe, editorials and features for StreamingMedia.com; and co-authored the book Flash Video for Professionals, published by Wiley in 2007. Lisa has also presented at numerous industry conferences and user groups around the world, and is an active member and co-manager of the FlashCodersNY study group.Lisa is currently consulting, teaching, and developing iFoxCam, a consumer video monitoring product using Flash Media Server. She has worked with many video-centric start-ups as well as companies like Adobe, Microsoft and L’Oreal. She shares news and musings about Flash video, web development and life in the big city on her blog, www.flashconnections.com.

- Intros,

- The foods of FMS from the beginning,

-  Big Thanks to Lisa Lasrson-Kelley

- Back to work.

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Recording: http://realeyes.acrobat.com/p81692749/

CHAT FROM MEETING:

Nate Beck: sorta
Jake Hilton: You running FMS 2?
Nate Beck: Hmmm... why is she encoding to AMF0?
Nate Beck: FMS 3.5 doesn't have AMF3?
Jake Hilton: object encoding only needs to be set to AMF0 if it's older than fms 3.0
David Hassoun: it does
Brad - Adobe: FMS 3.5 supports amf0 and amf3
Nate Beck: Okay, don't scare me like that :)
David Hassoun: hehe
David Hassoun: she might be compiling to fp 8 or something
David Hassoun: dunno
Nate Beck: yea, most examples are still ''old school''
David Hassoun: nope nevermind shes not
David Hassoun: lower case v in void = AS3 hehe
ryan: btw, anyone know what would cause slow video playback from a user client through FMS?
ryan: (apparently is problem on user client side)
ryan: font size is better, yes :-)
Nate Beck: Hey... she's cute :)
David Hassoun: and married!
Kristin: Wil that code be avaible later for download?
David Hassoun: ;)
Nate Beck: As am I.... just noticing is all ;)
dan: and a cute baby too ..
David Hassoun: yes the files will be available with the recording I believe
David Hassoun: should be up either today or within a couple days
Brad - Adobe: trace also writes to the application's log file
ryan: ah, i was going to as that brad
David Jumeau: Don't need any return values like AS1?
David Hassoun: not following?
David Jumeau: Oops I mean strict data typing?
David Hassoun: no data typing in as1
Brad - Adobe: no
ryan: and back to flash - the flash clients were connecsting specifically to that script?
Nate Beck: SSAS is all dynamically typed
David Hassoun: flash clients connect to thee application and execute that script starting at the onConnect method
Brad - Adobe: a return on a function defined on the Client class will return to the client that specifically called that function
ryan: got it, thanks :-)
Nate Beck: So SSAS hasn't changed much at all in this new version of FMS?
David Hassoun: nope
David Jumeau: Recomended FMS Service Providers for testing?
Pedro Taranto: is there any way to manage the number of app intances? i.e. i have a chat app and want no more than 20 instances running
Nate Beck: Good, so my Programming Flash Communication Server O'Reilly book still applies :)
Leif Wells - Atlanta: please, please please get AS3 (or at least AS2) on the server side. Please? (did I say please?)
Nate Beck: Influxis is also a good FMS host
David Jumeau: What's the average price for a CDN?
David Hassoun: http://labs.realeyes.com/labs/downloads/techBriefs/VideoDeliverySolutionAnalysis_20081218.pdf
David Hassoun: is a CDN analysis we did for the bigger ones
ryan: i had one technical question about the slow video...
ryan: (though maybe not the right forum :-)
Nate Beck: So the Encoding server needs to be installed locally on the machine that is broadcasting the live video?
Brad - Adobe: @Nate are you referring to the adobe media encoding server?
Nate Beck: The ''free'' one you referenced earlier
David Jumeau: I have a set up using XAMPP, can I install FMSD there?
Brad - Adobe: flash media live encoder is free, and it does not have to work on the same system as the server
Nate Beck: Too many products :D
Brad - Adobe: AMES is a transcoding server for VOD files. :)
steve: the audio cut-out is really bad
David Jumeau: Development server
Thomas: how do you share your desktop?  Can this be done from any computer such as a clients laptop?
Nate Beck: @Thomas just create an account on acrobat.com
David Jumeau: Like an Apache - PHP setup or is that something else entirely?
Brad - Adobe: aka connect pro
Nate Beck: it's free
Thomas: thanks
David Jumeau: Maybe I should check out Tom's article you mentioned.
David Jumeau: :)
David Jumeau: Thanks Lisa!
steve: do you recommend server encoding
David Hassoun: what do u mean server encoding?
steve: I am refering to eating up memory
Brad - Adobe: FMS server doesn't ''encode''
steve: thanks
chu: Any suggestion to reduce buffering on steam, thanks
David Hassoun: use a process called dynamic buffering or quick play
David Hassoun: start with very small buffer, then once it fills increase it
David Hassoun: let buffer fill on the fly
Brad - Adobe: @ chu do you mean rebuffering after the stream starts playing or on startup?
ryan: so if a user has a slow upstream, then that buffer will get backed up and cause the video to play slow for others?
ryan: right
Brad - Adobe: basically yes
ryan: cool, what i figured - we had a user that was low voice and slow :-)
chu: anything we can do on server side
David Hassoun: bad
ryan: but was very amusing to a degree
Nate Beck: When writing an FMS application with Flex... which video component do you end up using?
steve: To do the orgin-edge configuration...do you need an additional liscence for the edge side?
Nate Beck: Just Video.. or VideoPlayback?
David Hassoun: @Nate depend on the client. I usually have my own based on Video
Brad - Adobe: Flex can use the Flvplayback 2.5
David Hassoun: planning on doing a user group talk on players soon
steve: got to go...thanks again for your time
Brad - Adobe: it's just not shipped with it, you will need to download from the FMS 3.5 tools page
Nate Beck: Okay, thanks Brad :)
David Jumeau: There's a tools page?
Ted: Thank you
ryan: thanks!
Nate Beck: Thanks!
Thomas: thank you
Matt O'Donnell: Thank you so muich
dan (privately): thanks!
David Jumeau: bye!
dan: thankw!
David Hassoun: thanks everyone!
Kristin: Thank you
Brad - Adobe: @David, yes there is a link to it on the FMS 3.5 product page
lisalarsonkelley 2: Bye everyone, thanks! :)
Jessica (Adobe): Tools Page: www.adobe.com/go/fms_tools