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wowza vs Flash Media Server (FMS / FMIS) - ease of integration with ASP.Net

We're creating a web site offering one to many video chat and trying to decide on which of these streaming servers to go with. Looking at around 256kbps live streams, hoping to achieve at least 1000 simultaneous streams on one 8-core server. Wowza is cheaper (1k vs 5k for FMS), and appears to be used successfully by many sites (StreamL...

Executing bat file and returning the prompt

I have a problem with cruisecontrol where an ant scripts executes a bat file that doesn't give me the prompt back. As a result, the project in cruisecontrol keeps on bulding forever until I restart cruisecontrol. How can I resolve this? It's a startup.bat from wowza (Streaming Server) that I'm executing: @echo off call setenv.bat if ...

Any Ruby AMF clients out there?

Hi, I'm looking for a way to push/receive AMF0 / AMF3 messages in Ruby(Rails). From what I read rubyAMF can only act as a server. What I need is a library that allows client access to FMS/Wowza.Any ideas? ...

Secure Streaming CDN Video Content

Hi, I am using Amazon CloudFront to stream paid video content to my users and I am having problems getting the videos secured. Wowza does that by creating a secure token, but the use of wowza would be much more costly. Is there anyway that I can better protect my content by using Cloudfront or other CDN? Thanks! ...

m3u8 stream not working on jailbroken iPhone

Hi, I have set up wowza on our company server and its working fine, serving m3u8 streams to iPhone 3G, QuickTime player, iPhone simulator etc. Any idea what might be preventing this stream to play on a jailbroken iPhone 3.1.3?? It doesn't give any error just shows up the file like a normal text file. ...

Flash Webcam Permissions

I'm having an issue with flash, which I am not really familiar with. I'm basing this code off of what came with the wowza media server in the video chat example, but unlike that example flash is not prompting me for whether or not to allow the video camera. Below is my actionscript: import flash.events.MouseEvent; import flash.events....

Amazon EC2 Audio Connection closed erro

Hi All, I have an audio recorder application running on a EC2 instance. I tested the audio recorder application on my Localhost with Wowza Media Server and the Amazon EC2 accepts the connection. However when I try to use the same application with the same connection, the audio recorder application returns "The connection to the Audio s...

Wowza + Flex not reproducing whole audio

Hi there, I'm writing a flex app, which must record an audio and then playback. It records just fine, I can hear the flv on the server, but when it comes to the playback it cuts the end a little bit, and each time I ask to reproduce again it cuts a little bit more. What can it be? I guess it's something related to buffer management, but...

Video recording RTMP and lag help?

My situation: I have my recorder that works fine running off Red5 0.8 which run off my http server as well. Trying to conserve bandwidth by doing a local move file from the rtmp to http with ftp. I am trying to record HD video with a max of 2-3 minutes each. The problem is lag times on the buffer. The video ends up choppy, freezes...

FFmpeg Encoding(cli example) for Wowza Workflow and Source Formats

Hi, I have looked quite a bit for some guidance on this topic, but here is my question (several parts)... What is the best workflow, utilizing ffmpeg, to encode video for video-on-demand streaming for Wowza Media server? More specifically... Part 1: I have source videos of approx. 2 minutes each, that are 720p. I would like these to...

Streaming of different video scenes to the iPad

Hi, as a background: I am developing an application for the iPad where users can browse videos that are provided by us. When a user picks a video it will then launch an MPMoviePlayerController - which works fine (besides I get no video for the first 10 seconds, of which I have no idea why). Now, users should be able to search for speci...

Generating video with Flash Player and Wowza Media Server

I'm currently creating a whiteboard in Flash, and I want to be able to record all of the user interaction for later playback. Is it somehow possible to create a video of what the user is drawing? ...