[Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread 8ball Developer
Hi guys, I'm giving a presentation on using flash for an application in a few hours and would like to have a firm answer on the following items. 1. Can flash play audio streamed from Helix (Real Server)? 2. Can flash access a database directly? I know this is no. But I don't know what are all

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Wood
8ball Developer wrote: Hi guys, I'm giving a presentation on using flash for an application in a few hours and would like to have a firm answer on the following items. 1. Can flash play audio streamed from Helix (Real Server)? flash streams mp3. thats all. (why it doesnt do ogg, i dont

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread 8ball Developer
1. Can flash play audio streamed from Helix (Real Server)? flash streams mp3. thats all. (why it doesnt do ogg, i dont know.. :) Sorry. I meant to say: can a flash player, play mp3 streamed from Helix? Or does it have to come From Flash comm? ___

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Wood
8ball Developer wrote: 1. Can flash play audio streamed from Helix (Real Server)? flash streams mp3. thats all. (why it doesnt do ogg, i dont know.. :) Sorry. I meant to say: can a flash player, play mp3 streamed from Helix? Or does it have to come From Flash comm? no, it can come from

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread 8ball Developer
Are you 100% sure about this? Is this documented someplace? I'm trying to get them to replace Helix with FCS. On 11/2/05, Martin Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8ball Developer wrote: 1. Can flash play audio streamed from Helix (Real Server)? flash streams mp3. thats all. (why it doesnt do

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread Martin Wood
not 100% sure, no. i guess you mean 'real' streaming as opposed to progressive download. in that case i think you might *currently* need fcs because it relies on the rtmp protocol i really know very little about this unfortunately. sorry. martin 8ball Developer wrote: Are you 100% sure

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread Judah Frangipane
To stream an mp3 all you need is a path to the file. The flash player will handle the streaming. For database interaction all you need is flash remoting. It is one of my favorite features of flash. It ROCKS! You can check out the free amfphp.com or the commercial versions for asp.net, cold

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread Jordan Snyder
Martin is correct about Flash requiring FCS to stream MP3s. Flash can either pick up an MP3 from the server's filesystem, or connect to FCS to pick up a stream of MP3 information. He's also correct about Flash8 binary sockets and connecting to databases directly. I'm sure someone will dig into

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash capabilities

2005-11-02 Thread 8ball Developer
Thank you all for you response. On 11/2/05, Jordan Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin is correct about Flash requiring FCS to stream MP3s. Flash can either pick up an MP3 from the server's filesystem, or connect to FCS to pick up a stream of MP3 information. He's also correct about