A Complete Reference for Flash Media Server (FMS).

This Article is for the newbie of using Flash Media Server. It has a collection of links about FMS.

What is FMS?….

Flash Media Server (FMS) is a proprietary data and media server from Adobe Systems (originally a Macromedia product). This server works with the Flash Player runtime to create media driven, multiuser RIAs (Rich Internet Applications).

Flash Media Server is a hub, Flash based applications connect to the hub using Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP). The server can send and receive data to and from the connected users with live web FLV player installed. Connected clients can make Remote procedure calls (RPC) on the server-side and the server can call methods on specific clients. A SharedObject can be used to synchronize complicated data structures and call remote methods on multiple clients in one go by having clients subscribe to a shared object. Standard ActionScript objects are transported across the NetConnection using the Action Message Format (AMF) which is handled transparently by the server and flash client.

The server also allows users to receive and publish net streams. When viewing a net stream the user can either create their own to view a remotely stored Flash Video (FLV) or the server can instantiate a net stream and play a video on it, the latter method means that every user will be at the same point in the video when they subscribe to it as they are all viewing the same stream.

Where can i start?..

Upsolutely, all beginners have the same questions is. You can find a lot of tutorials about FMS on the net. I dont find a best tutorial for beginners except TomGreen’s one. Tom green is a genious on FMS. Here you can find a very basic tutorial of him for beginners.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/beginner_vod_fm3.html.

Connecting to the server

Adobe given you the perfect tutorial for connect to the FMS server here.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_Deving/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0773d56e-7ff9.html

Note: This is the Technical overview document about FMS given by adobe, so that you can find a lots of overview about methods and properties of FMS from the left panel.

Find Solutions for Technical Issues

Forum is a great gift for all beginners. so that you can find the solution for your problems from forums, But you need to find a most active forum before post your questions.

Here I have given the most active forum for FMS.

http://fmsguru.com/forum/threads.cfm?forumid=B358E0C1-2004-C4F4-F50A701B3E559AFF

http://fmsguru.com/forum/forums.cfm?conferenceid=AFA87284-2004-C4F4-F503916B1FABA9DC

http://forums.adobe.com/community/flash/flash_media_server

FAQs

http://www.flashcommunicationserver.net/faq/fms_technical_faq.htm

Object Encoding Problem

http://maohao.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/as-3-to-fms-20/

You can find a lots of articles about FMS by ADOBE here

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?cat=all&loc=en_us&term=fms%20as3

I think its little help to start your FMS work…  I’ll given my own tutorial soon…

CHEERS……………

This article dedicated to Mr.Saravanan..

2010

01/08

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