Archive for Flash Media Server

So, What exactly is a .wav file?

Until recently, I thought a .wav file was for uncompressed digital audio data on windows, while .mp3 file would be the compressed version of the audio clip.  That was probably too simple to be true!! The first time I used Adobe Audition to export a mixdown of a multitrack session, an export dialog box poped-up [...]

ColdFusion-Powered flex/air RIA

A few days ago, Adobe asked me to speak on a workshop about the integration between ColdFusion 8 and Flex. As a ColdFusion developer, the ColdFusion part was not a problem, but I was a bit afraid by the Flex part, since I’ve never used Flex or flex builder before.  I eventually decided that I [...]

Making your Flash Media Server life easier

While developing Flash media server applications I always find myself hitting the F1 button numerous times for a quick reference of the different onStatus Events (NetStream, netConnection,SharedObject). Ok, after a while one knows all out of the head. But a typo occurs more than often. Right, so I took some time today to make a [...]

Installing Flash Media Server 3.02 on Ubuntu 8.04

We’ve set up a simple server (Ubuntu) with a LAMP stack on it. When you get toys, you easily start to play. So why not set up FMS3? Great idea, we all love to play. Download the FMS Developer edition at Adobe (here). Upload zip file onto server (use Webmin if you don’t know how), make sure [...]

Recording via Edge servers

I recently received a question concerning the set up needed to record video through an edge Flash media server. As you know there are 2 versions of the FMS 3 server available, a streaming and interactive edition (also a developer edition but that is out of the question right now). Both versions can be put [...]