Asynchronous NetStream / Flash Media Server

Hello,
this is my first experience with audio streaming and I am also fairly new to FMS. I am very grateful for any help
In my application two or more people can talk to each other (for example like in Skype). I use NetStream objects for it, that means for x users = x netStream objects for each user (1 for publishing the own stream to Flash Media Server, x - 1 for playing the other users' streams from Flash Media Server).
SOMETIMES they suddenly become asynchronous. That means: suddenly it takes some time (for example: 5 seconds) until a stream reaches a user (like in a bad mobile phone connection), so that they have to "wait" for each other.
What are the reasons for that? I am sure it has something to do with the bandwidth? And: what can I do about it?
Thank you very much in advance!
Kind regards,
Mike

Hi kanr ,
I tried this code on my FMS 4.0 server.
application.onAppStart = function() {
var entry = new LoadVars();
entry.SessionID="fffd9f3d-4712-4fd4-b6bb-c56ea9a30fba";
entry.filename="test.flv";
entry.type="video/x-flv";
var resp = new LoadVars();
resp.onData = function(data) {
trace("onData" );
resp.onHTTPStatus = function(status) {
trace("status: "+status);
entry.sendAndLoad("http://localhost:8134/cgi-bin/test.pl",resp,"POST");
I do get the HTTP Status as expected i.e 200 in onHTTPStatus. Are you trying something different from this that is not working. If required, you can provide me more details on [email protected]
Thanks,
Abhishek

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