Modifying StrobeMediaPlayback to choose closest server to request stream from

Question

Hello and thanks in advance for any help here.
I am looking for a way to modify SMP to intelligently decide what server to request a stream from. Basically it needs to act as a sort of primitive geographic-based load balancing solution. I've downloaded the SMP source and haven't been able to identify where exactly it initializes a netconnection and netstream. If anyone would have information about this or anything else that would lead me closer to implementing this modification, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Thanks for the replies. I added the following lines:
     strm.getStreamInfo();
     strm.streamInfo.append = true;
     strm.onStartRecord();
The problem now is that if I set the stream type to DVR in the Strobe player, I get the following odd behavior for video from FMLE:
     With autoPlay enabled in the player
Video only plays properly about one in 20 playback attempts; the rest of the time it shows up as a black video.
When it does play properly, it plays from the live point in the video and shows the cursor in the "live" area of the scrub bar as it should
     With autoPlay disabled in the player
Video appears to play properly
It shows that it's at the "live" point in the scrub bar, but it insists on playing the video from the beginning
In addition to those issues, the code changes above don't seem to fix the crazy video durations when recording and playing back from the VBrick (e.g. 268 hours when it's only a few minutes). Assuming I could actually get the videos to record and playback with DVR controls from FMLE (which I am becoming increasingly doubtful of this right now), is there a way to have the server insert the timecode or whatever is missing so it doesn't get so confused? I've looked at the logs and added more trace statements and it appears to be using a reasonable startRec time so this might be some sort of missing VITC timecode issue.
I still find it extremely hard to believe that I'm the only person trying to record to and playback video with DVR controls from FMS without an explicit DVR record start/stop and that I'm also the only person doing it from other video sources besides FMLE. What am I missing? Why is this so hard?
The DVR app from Wowza combined with Wowza Media Server provided this functionality of the box and the only reason we're not 100% sold on using that as our solution is that we can't get the live latency down below 20sec because it can only do HTTP out instead of RTMP out.
Thanks,
Jim