how to use flv format

[Bonifars]

Hi all,

I'm trying to create an audio/video streaming application. The thing is i need
to capture video streams from my camera and send it across to 100s of students.
I may also store this stream for offline viewing. I remember having done it a
few years back using JMF and mpg/mpeg2 formats but the performance was really
bad and i had to scrap my work. I was wondering if using FLV format could
improve the performance. I do understand that using FLV format, i will have to
have a flash based client as well. Having said all this, i'm ready to re-write
my whole application. Can somebody help please?

I'm open to any suggestions/corrections.

Thanks in advance.
Bonifars

[jugdish1]

:music; Good Luck! I followed Dan Carr's excellent tutorial on using the
spokesman with FLV. It worked beautifully on my desktop pc and my test server,
but when I uploaded it to my ISP running Windows NET Server 2003, the SWF
plays but not the progressive download FLV. As a matter of fact, the FLV is
missing right out of the SWF as if it wasn't even there. I checked my web root
file and there they are sitting side by side each other. Any one have any
ideas or experience the same problem?

[email]najrellim@gmail.com[/email]

[Bonifars]

most probably your ISP doesnot have proper mime-type set for SWF/FLV. search on adobe forums itself. I remember having read this very recently in flash media server forum.

[jugdish1]

:disgust;

10-4 on that, Bonifars! Dan Carr told me the same thing recently by email. I
ran that by my ISP and at first they blamed Microsoft. After more-than-gentle
urging, the techies at the ISP checked and found out that their Windows sites
did not in fact have the new MIME type added. They then told me that they had
updated the MIME type, but it still doesn't work correctly. Now it starts to
play the FLV but freezes, making it look like a still image. Anyone run into
that problem? Thanks Very Much Again, Bonifars!

[Bonifars]

Here is the official link talking about the problem.
[url]http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19439[/url]

I'm not sure if you understood my problem properly. I want to write my own
application server that will serve the audio/video stream. I had implemented
this 1-2 years back using JMF and mpeg2 but it turned out to be quite slow even
on a 100Mbps LAN. Recently a friend of mine informed me that FLV/SWF formats
can handle audio/video streams quite efficiently. I was wondering if somebody
could help me start over this. I've worked on small flash animations and am
prepared to rewrite my whole application in any damn language in the world.
Jugdish, if you have any links, please post across.

Thanks in advance.