Help with setup for live streaming

[99forever]

I'm trying to set up a live stream that's viewable on my website.
I have two machines behind a router with one being the webserver running FMS
(windows 2003) and the other being the encoding machine running FME (windows
XP).
When I set up FME, I put in the following as the url to the server
"rtmp://computernamewebserver/live/" with the session name being "test".
This has no problems connecting to FMS .

On the webserver/FMS, I created a *.swf file which basically contains just a
flvplayback object with the URL set to
"rtmp://computernamewebserver/live/test".

Now after I publish this, I can view the video via the published html file
from within the network, but when I try outside of the network, it doesn't work
and I get no error messages so it's hard to debug.

I have port 80 forwarded to my webserver/FMS machine. I tried forwarding port
1935 to both my webserver/FMS machine and the FME machine with no success.
I've tried playing around with the rtmp URL by changing the
computernamewebserver from the internally recognized computer name to
the externally recognized URL to my webserver.

The solution is probably something simple, but since this is my first attempt
at flash streaming, it's not obvious to me and I've tried searching for the
solution. My suspicion is that there's some config file somewhere that I need
to config that I don't know about or maybe it's some port issue. Neither of my
machines have windows based firewall disabled.

[techeye]

"Now after I publish this, I can view the video..." Well this shows that FMS
is working fine, so I am guessing that it is an outside network issue.

"Neither of my machines have windows based firewall disabled. " I don't know
if this is the cause either, as a host based firewall should prevent any
connections from arriving, either by the internal lan or the external (well, at
least I think that is the case, I dont know if windows still allows hosts on
the same subnet to have local lan permissions or what they do with their crazy
security model. That said it shouldn't be a problem.)

I would try to just telnet to the port that you have open to make sure the
connection can be established.
telnet computernamewebserver 1935 (this should open up a socket, otherwise
your port forwarding isnt working correctly.)

If telnet works ok, perhaps its an issue with the swf. I would code the
minimal things needed to just get a stream playing from the external network
(perhaps just using the vod service, not the live, to make things simple).

Hope that helps.

[99forever]

So I tried to telnet and was able to get in with no problems...

As you suggested, I focussed on the swf file...
Turns out that my webserver was trying to access the SWF file and didn't have
the rights to do it so I went into the security settings of that folder and
enabled "read and execute" rights and now it works.

Thanks.

[pattywu]

Hi,

I know it's always hard when you just start using any software or services for live streaming. You should try DaCast. Even I'm a really new user of this services but I found out it's useful and easy to set up.

I created an account at DaCast's live streaming platform where I can upload my video or simply stream live through my webcam. And you can also put your content on your own blog or web site. The only thing you need to do is copying the player's code and embed to your site. Here's link of the live streaming server: [url]www.dacast.com[/url]. I hope it will help.