On Apr 3, 2007, at 10:34 PM, john robinson wrote:
On Apr 3, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Jon Bradley wrote:
I've got a bit of a question that I'm trying to wrap my head around.
Can Flash Media Server 2 take dynamic paths to FLV content?
As long as the path exists, then yeah it should be fine. I'm not
sure if I understand your question correctly though. Are you saying
you'll get a path like below from the CMS?
"someserver.com/flash/videos/somefolder/somevideo"
If that path exists on the FMS, then it shouldn't be a problem at all.
A bit different actually. The CMS system and application we are
building is written with Java running on Apache Tomcat. File system
paths will be stored like follows:
serverURL/fileServlet/filename.flv?GET_ITEM_ID=347&TransformationID=234
Where the item id is a link to the metadata of the asset stored in a
database and the transformation id is the transformed file from that
asset. Our servers (flip factory, etc) will generate low res previews
and a high res FLV from the original asset, which is mpeg-2.
I can probably build a direct path on the HD to the file, but from
what I gather, you need to edit virtual paths in FMS for it to
recognize the location of the files. I can't do this because each
'asset' is a collection of files, including the FLV I want to stream.
Each asset is a folder basically and there may be lots of 'em - 10s
of thousands.
I don't know. Maybe it's server-side AS that grabs the path from the
client side application (also flash) and somehow uses it to retrieve
and stream the file. This is definitely unchartered AS territory for me.
I'm testing the dev edition of FMS to get a grips on whether or not
it'll be best for the job. Red5 or some other tomcat-type
installation of a streaming server may be a better selection as I
look into it more.
thanks,
jon
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