Failed to load

[webp0ser]

Thank you for viewing this post, any information is greatly appreciated.

When trying to connect to my flv file via rtmp and F8 components, I get a
"failed to load" message. I have tried just about everything. The funny thing
is in the administration console it picks it up as a connection, but on my end
nothing registers. The FMS server is located as a stand-alone server where its
only function is to run FMS. Its run on a W2k3 server. I am running a separate
apache web server for the swf files.

I have dug for hours on this issue and have found very little documentation on
this, and the documentation that I have found seems bloated, hard to read and
understand, and doesn't pertain to my simple issues.

Anyhow, any help would really be nice. I've already gone through 1 keyboard
today.

Thanks.

[JayCharles]

It sounds to me like you're trying to load an application that doesn't exist. Are you sure the name of the application and the name you are using in your rtmp string are the same?

[webp0ser]

JayCharles,
Thank you for your response. The two files are named correctly. I triple
checked that. I have seen in sample applications a folder structure like this:
applications>streams>_definst. I have placed the flv files in each folder with
the same result.

BTW, I checked out your site, and tried out the video post card deal. It
wasn't working for me. Very cool though. I will be trying something like that
soon on a project that I am working on.

Anyhow, any other suggestions or questions?

[JayCharles]

Hmm... are you using the communication components, or one of the flv playback
components? I don't use MM's prebuilt components often, but I seem to remember
readng something about the FLV playback component requiring a SMIL file.

About the downtime on my e-card app... I was making some changes to my
development server and it was down for a while this evening. It should be
working properly now.

[webp0ser]

I am using the FLV playback component.

[webp0ser]

After much trouble, I finally figured out what was going on. You need the main.asc file inside the instance folder on the server.

[Folok]

Read this: [url]http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=d244749e[/url]
I tried this method handreds times. Even I correct some tag closing in the
simil exemple. Anyone seems to work and I wonder if there is a real method to
streaming video via FLVPlayback.

[webp0ser]

Folok -
I did get it to work finally - even using the FLV playback component. I
didn't even use the SMIL file which is weird. You also might try the flvplayer
( there are a few) [url]http://www.peldi.com/blog/archives/flvplayer/index.html[/url].
You should also download this test app, and test it out in your IDE to go over
your settings.
[url]ftp://ftp://ftp2.allaire.com/support/wchoi/temp[/url].

Also, if you are using Windows 2003 and IIS, check out tech note 19439:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19439[/url].

Also, I was looking for this and couldnt find it. Here is the appropriatrae
file structure that should be used in your applications directory in FMS2:
macromedia
- Flash Media Server 2
--applications
--- appName (inside this place your main.asc file)
---- streams (inside this folder, you put your instance name - the
default is _definst_)
----- _definst_ (inside this folder, place your FLV file)

if you make changes to the file structure, be sure to restart your FMS server.
I really hope this helps. I promise you that it is working for me and am now
up and running smoothly - even using the FLVPlayback component.

Another thing that I should mention, I had errors in the IDE when I had a few
things selected in the component inspector. First, in the contentPath option,
a little box comes up to enter in your path, make sure that nothing is checked.
Second, set autoSize to false. Getting that to work is another story I hear.

I also found this article helpful. This shows you how to not use the
FLVplayback component, but a video object. I actually migrated to using this
for a few things because of the bandwidth issues and the "supposed" instant on
playing that FMS was supposed to do. On a side note, more often than not, I
had better, more solid video with progressive download vs. the streaming.
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flashcom/articles/flvideo_bandwidth.html[/url]