Dynamic virtual directory access

Question

Hi!
I am running into some problems.  With our new LMS on logging in, the systems creates a link to content with an on-demand virtual directory.
Now with our old system this didnt happen and we could hardcode in fms.ini the guid's of the asset locations.
Can you think of anyway for me to incorporate this on-demand guid created on login in the fms.ini so that I can get the files to play using this virtuil directory?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, when it comes to Streaming Server, your options are limited.
I don't work with Streaming Server (never been asked to), but to the best of my knowledge, your only possible in point for authenticating clients on a per-client basis (as opposed to defining IP's and referrers globally) is through an authentication plugin. In a recent version of FMS, Adobe added support for auth plugins to support the FMLE authentication addin, but since I've never tested, I don't know if you're able to develop your own auth plugin, or if FMSS will only accept the prefab FMLE Auth addin as a plugin.
That said, I don't see any way of mapping a virtual path for a client in an auth plugin... looks like you'd need to to an access or file plugin for this, and I'm pretty sure FMSS won't let you use either of those.
Now that I'm thinking about this, perhaps you can get around the requirement for scripting and virtual paths altogether. If the directories created by your CMS all share a common root, and you don't need to acually authenticate the client connections to FMSS (which, IMO is a really bad idea), I suppose you could configure your FMS application's media root to be the common root of the CMS folders, and then just use the path to the required file for each stream.
For example, if your CMS puts all of the folders into c:\CMS\media, and for each user session it creates something like c:\CMS\media\someSessionId\file.mp4, you could configure your media storage root as c:\CMS\media, and then when invokeing your netstream.play() method on the client side, you could just use the path to the file from the media root:
ns.play('mp4:someSessionId/file,mp4", 0, 0);
Beyond that, I don't know of what else to suggest for streaming server.