29 Responses for "FMS Showcase: Farm Show videos"

1. Allen Lazzara January 19th, 2009 at 2:16 pm 1

   Lisa

   Your tutorials are great!

   Like the Farm Show website, I also used your multi-video player design on our website.

   http://www.barkingdogblues.com

   Credit goes to you.

   Thanks,
   Allen

2. daniele January 29th, 2009 at 6:38 am 2

   Hi Lisa,
   sorry if i’m writing a commnet but i didn’t find your contact on this site.
   is it possible to get in contact with you to ask you something about video in flash?
   anyway, thanks in advance and compliments for your knowledge

3. lisa larson~kelley January 29th, 2009 at 8:05 pm 3

   Hi Daniele,

   You can ask me here, and maybe it’ll help someone else with the same problem!

   cheers
   // Lisa

4. Robert January 31st, 2009 at 8:46 pm 4

   I have a challenge which prompts for a quick question – can yes it could be valuable to others.
   I have over 100 videos, each with 4 angles, plus a quad-split screen – basically 6 video tracks, and 2 audio tracks – all sync’d
   I need to put onto DVDR (computer playback not DVD playback) and want to have the user control the angle of each file playing back on the fly – in sync
   DVD’s can do with the “angle” button – and I see that Flash Streaming can do this – but can regular Flash do it from DVDR playback with somekind of interface etc.

   Really appreciate any help.

   RGB

   I found your website from the wonderful article you wrote on Adobe Dev Center on Flash Media Server.

   If you say yes, then I have to get more knowledge – does your book explain how this can be achieved.

   Need to know asap – client meeting on Monday, and its Sat

   The amount of video will not fit onto one DVD – hence going with new interface and flash and H264

5. lisa larson~kelley February 2nd, 2009 at 10:47 am 5

   Hi Robert,

   Yes, this is possible with Flash streaming. You can set up a playlist for each of the “angles”. Then keep track of the timecode of the video that is playing and when a different video angle is chosen, begin playback at that same timecode. When you mention “regular Flash” I’m assuming you mean progressive delivery; yes, it can be done progressively, but you’d have to implement some server-side code to make progressive video behave like streaming (jump forward without waiting for the buffer) as discussed here: http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2005/11/2/Streaming-flv-video-via-PHP-take-two

   Are your audiotracks separate? That would be preferable as there may be some audio ‘jitter’ when changing between videos.

   Glad you found my article helpful… more to come in the near future! My book does briefly talk about PHP streaming, but you can get this information from the link above as well. But, of course there’s lots of other useful code and info in the book

6. Steve February 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 pm 6

   Hi Lisa,

   We’ve used your playlist player from the Adobe Flash Developer Center successfully on two sites; it’s amazingly simple, looks and works great:
   http://www.highenergyentertainment.com/videos/video_box.php
   http://www.afterhoursent.com/videos/video_box.shtml

   (WARNING – these are both music sites w/ sound.)

   BUT…we also are trying to use it on a site whose pages are called dynamically, and we think our problem is that the file SWF file can’t see the file VideoPlaylistNoThumb.as:

   http://www.madelainechocolate.com/customer/pages.php?pageid=49&mode=preview

   We’ve managed to get the absolute links to all our other files.

   The embedded page – http://www.madelainechocolate.com/skin1/pages/US/food_network.html works fine, so we’re wondering how to work around this problem.

   Any guidance would be appreciated! Thanks, Lisa. Got your Flash Video book and love it.

7. lisa larson~kelley February 3rd, 2009 at 2:12 pm 7

   Hi Steve,

   Are you specifying the video using XML? If so, I’m not seeing a request for the XML file, so that would be the file you’re missing. The .as files are just needed at compile time; you don’t need to upload them to your server.

   Any other details about the files would be helpful; I’ll try to help if I can!

   cheers
   // Lisa

8. Steve February 3rd, 2009 at 2:47 pm 8

   Hi Lisa,

   >I’m not seeing a request for the XML file

   Where are you looking, and what should be there, please?

   I am using the file playlist.xml … it is called for by VideoPlaylistNoThumb.as:

   xmlLoader.load(new URLRequest(“http://www.madelainechocolate.com/skin1/pages/US/playlist.xml”));

   It works in http://www.madelainechocolate.com/skin1/pages/US/food_network.html

   Thanks so much for looking into this!

   Steve

9. Steve February 4th, 2009 at 12:42 pm 9

   …figured it out. I needed to change the Local Playback Security to “Access Network Only.”

   I was wondering about this setting and noticed on http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/local_network_playback_03.html – “I have also seen situations where static XML files will not load from a relative path while using the local files-only setting.”

   So the finished result is at http://www.madelainechocolate.com/customer/pages.php?pageid=49&mode=preview

   Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

   Steve

10. Ann February 18th, 2009 at 12:45 pm 10

    Hi Lisa,
    Your video playlist is great. I have a requirement to use captions for my videos [I'll have 8 total videos to put in the player w/ 8 TT xml files] and can’t figure out how to do that using the the playlist.

    I can get TT captions up and running when just using one player, but I’m not advanced enough in ActionScripting to figure out the code for calling the captions when using the playlist.

    Can you please help? I’d be extremely grateful for guidance on this.

    Ann

11. lisa larson~kelley February 20th, 2009 at 12:14 pm 11

    Ann,
    Coincidentally, I just answered a question about this in the comments on my Playlist article in the Adobe Developer Connection (maybe it was you who asked it?):

    http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_playlist.html

    cheers
    // Lisa

12. Ody Ibekwe April 9th, 2009 at 11:55 am 12

    greetings,
    I have not yet started using the Flash Media Scripts. Before I do, I have one question for you and I hope you can help me with the query.
    I downloaded the requirement that will help me learn the Adobe Flash and deploying of the program on websites, which includes the Flash CS3 Pro, Flash Media Server 3 (for streaming delivery) and Sample files: For video playlist as3.zip (ZIP, 12.4 MB).
    Thus now, I want to know if I should install the Flash CS3 Pro, in the server or in my personal computer and work with it from my computer.
    Reason I ask is because my server is not a local server and does not belong to me I am using a web host server.
    Please contact me with your advice. Thanks.

13. Ody Ibekwe April 9th, 2009 at 11:56 am 13

    greetings,
    I have not yet started using the Flash Media Scripts. Before I do, I have one question for you and I hope you can help me with the query.

    I downloaded the requirement that will help me learn the Adobe Flash and deploying of the program on websites, which includes the Flash CS3 Pro, Flash Media Server 3 (for streaming delivery) and Sample files: For video playlist as3.zip (ZIP, 12.4 MB).

    Thus now, I want to know if I should install the Flash CS3 Pro, in the server or in my personal computer and work with it from my computer.

    Reason I ask is because my server is not a local server and does not belong to me I am using a web host server.
    Please contact me with your advice. Thanks.

    Best regards,
    Brigma.com AdLogic

14. lisa larson~kelley April 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pm 14

    @ Ody
    You should install Flash CS3 Pro on your personal computer; that software is the authoring environment for Flash files. You will use it to create SWF files.

    Flash Media Server can be run either on your remote web server or locally on your personal computer if you are running Windows XP or Linux. (This will work for learning and testing, but your streams will not be available via the web unless you are running FMS on a web server.)

    Hope this helps.
    // Lisa

15. Ody Ibekwe April 9th, 2009 at 6:57 pm 15

    Greetings,

    I the FMS a personal software that I need to download? If so, how can I get it?

    Thanks.

    Best regards,
    Brigma.com AdLogic

16. lisa larson~kelley April 9th, 2009 at 7:32 pm 16

    @Ody,

    Flash Media Server is commercial Adobe software, but they offer a Developer Edition for FREE. It allows up to 10 simultaneous connections. Perfect for learning! http://www.adobe.com/go/fms/

    (And you mention that you already downloaded it?)

17. Ody Ibekwe April 10th, 2009 at 2:32 am 17

    Greetings,

    I have found the answer to the FMS. However I want to understand the next.

    I am not so sure I understand the .XML codes very well. But please if do not mind this is what I understand about it.

    In the .XML codes, I should add the
    · <vid desc, which means the description of the video so visitors to my site will know the “Title” of the video they are watching.
    · While the playlist is the src attribute is url of the video in the playlist.
    This is my description of what I understood of the .xml.

    · Am I right with my understanding?
    · If I am right the next question is;
    · Do I need to repeat this action in the server every time I or a visitors/client uploads video file or does it generate the same information automatically as in “You Tube”?

    Thanks for your help.

    Best regards,
    Brigma.com AdLogic

18. Ody Ibekwe April 10th, 2009 at 6:13 am 18

    Greetings,

    You talked about creating ActionScript file and call it VideoPlaylist.as and save it in the same folder as VideoPlaylist.fla.in page 6 and Thumb.as in page 7.

    Do you mean to copy the codes that is on that same page 6 in the file that I am creating or do you mean to create a blank file? The same questiion goes to creating Thumb.as in page 7.

    How would you create these files f you are to create them?

    Best regards,
    Brigma.com AdLogic

19. Ody Ibekwe April 13th, 2009 at 11:45 am 19

    Greetings,

    How can I find the server address for the flash administration console? I need this server address information so I could sign in to the Flash Administration Console but I do not know where to find it, please help me if you know.

    Best regards,
    Brigma.com AdLogic

20. lisa larson~kelley April 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pm 20

    @ Ody
    If you are running FMS locally, you would use ‘localhost’ as your server address.

21. lisa larson~kelley April 13th, 2009 at 12:49 pm 21

    @ Ody
    You can create .as files and .xml files in any text editor.

22. Ody Ibekwe April 13th, 2009 at 12:54 pm 22

    Thanks Lisa,

    How can I upload the FMS to the remote server so I could run it on the web server because I have tried to upload it to my web host server but not successful…?

    Best regards,
    Brigma.com AdLogic

23. lisa larson~kelley April 13th, 2009 at 12:58 pm 23

    If you had trouble setting it up locally, you may not have luck setting it up on a webserver. I suggest getting an account with Influxis.com

24. Ody Ibekwe April 13th, 2009 at 3:33 pm 24

    Greetings,

    No I do not want to move to another web host. I had luck setting it up locally I just have problem the program accepting localhost as the server address. So you see I do not say that I have problem setting it up locally. People always have problem things at the first especially when it has a whole lot to do with program that has a whole lot to go through like this one.

    Remember the script didn’t ask admin to choose Local or Web hosting Server, that’s why I had problem with server address, however, the idea about localhost you suggested as the server address, is not correct and does not work..

    I do not have problem setting it up locally. I was able to load it up to my computer locally I just have problem with the server address. It is only some thing I need to study more on.

    Best regards,
    Brigma.com AdLogic

25. Gary June 22nd, 2009 at 5:10 pm 25

    I love your design for the playlist & have one request. I want to have pre-roll adds for each clip. Since I am very new to all of this I have been sticking to copy paste from templates with very little modification. Can you tell me what code I need to add to have the pre-roll ads. Here is a link to my existing site for demonstration purposes. http://www.onthetrailtv.com From the home page select an episode & you’ll see what I’ve done with your code.
    Thanks again for posting the original article. It really help me make a great looking website.

26. Tony Garcia June 23rd, 2009 at 4:54 pm 26

    Hi Lisa,
    I have created the playlist and it works great! I just need to know how to add closed captioning to each video in the playlist. I could not find the “comments” section of the tutorial that you referred to “Ann”

    I have been pulling my hair out for 2 days trying to find out how to add the captions to each individual video in the playlist…

    Any help would be wonderful!!!

    Thanks,
    Tony Garcia

27. lisa larson~kelley July 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 pm 27

    @Gary
    Great job on the playlist on your site!

    I put together a quick working version of this for you:

    http://www.flashconnections.com/adobe_examples/VideoPlaylist_prerolls.zip

    This will automatically play an ad before playing anything selected in the playlist. (Note, though, that it does not disable the controls while the ad plays; that’s a whole other beast that I don’t have time to tackle today!)

    Hope this helps.

28. Tamir December 21st, 2009 at 4:36 am 28

    Hi
    Thanks so much for all the info on your website.

    I need a pro kouledge on this:

    Im interested in developing a flash video chat that enaqbles the user to record the chat to the server side.
    The problematic issue is that I need to create a single flv that containes the 2 users at the same time side by side.
    I guess that means some kind off auto editing to the 2 recorded video streams.
    Can that be done with FMIS server or other?
    If not Can you offer me a creative wat to do that?

    Regards

    Tamir Gilad

29. lisa larson~kelley December 23rd, 2009 at 2:12 pm 29

    You could try to do this using FFMPEG on the server side, but editing them into a side-by-side arrangement could prove challenging. You could just play them back side by side, but keeping them in sync would also be a challenge. Look into FFMPEG and see if that might do what you need…