FMS3: Delay in start of video stream; error

[Benito Aramando]

Hi,

We're setting up an FMS3-based video streaming system for a new website, and
have built a player using AS2 (for compatibility with Flash Player v8) and the
FLVPlayback componenent which uses FMS3's new native bandwidth checking to
provide us with a figure with which we can work out which of 3 streams to play
and how long to buffer before playback. The initial NetConnection connection
happens pretty much instantly and we get the numbers we're looking for, but it
then takes about another 30 seconds before the FLVPlayback component connects
to the server and begins to stream the video. There doesn't seem to be anything
in the logic of the player to cause this, and when we test on a local
deployment of FMS3 we don't get the problem. Furthermore, we had this player
working nicely with FMS2 on the remote server until recently, when we upgraded
during our development stage. We think the key must be in the errors we get in
the FMS server log:

[Q]Mon 09:30:33 AM: Connect : rtmp://OurDomain/OurAppName
Mon 09:30:35 AM: Core (10567) connection to admin accepted.
Mon 09:30:35 AM: Core (10567) sending register cmd to edge. - Player
receives BW check numbers here
Mon 09:30:35 AM: (_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application (OurAppName) is
not a valid signed application; loading access denied.
Mon 09:30:35 AM: (_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application
(OurAppName/A201EB4C-C3F3-4A56-8C42-CA9373F0CA90) is not a valid signed
application; loading access denied.
Mon 09:30:35 AM: Connection rejected by server. Reason : [ Server.Reject ] :
(_defaultRoot_, _defaultVHost_) : Application
(OurAppName/A201EB4C-C3F3-4A56-8C42-CA9373F0CA90) is not a valid signed
application; loading access denied.
Mon 09:31:05 AM: Connect : rtmp://OurDomain:1935/OurAppName - Video begins
streaming[/Q]

The GUIDs are the folder names on our server containing the media, and appear
here because FMS takes the first part of the path to be the application
instance, which has not proved to be a problem before.

I can't find anything about validating or signing applications, but I suspect
these errors have something to do with the inexplicable delay before streaming
starts. Does anyone know anything about this?

thanks,
Ben

[fmslove]

Are you using Interactive Server(FMIS) or Streaming Server (FMSS).

I guess that OurAppName is NOT the server-side application you are using for
streaming video as log says that this application was never loaded on server
anyways.

In case you are using Streaming edition, FMSS 3 doesn't allow user created
server-side applications,

[Benito Aramando]

This was the cause, thanks. We had somehow overlooked this fact about FMS
streaming edition, Adobe don't exactly make it clear that you can't do any
server-side scripting at all with this edition - luckily the "vod" signed
application does what we want.