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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