Flash Media Player which handles bitrate switching for live streams?

Hello. I've got a very short timescale to find a solution for a way to display livestreams with bitrate switching. Does anyone
know of any opensource players which can do this effectively? Or do the inbuilt components in CS4 deal with this ok?

Thanks,I have read that article. Based on that article the NetStreamInfo.maxBytesPerSecond is not an accurate measurement to base dynamic switching on. This seems to be the basis of the bitrate switching in both the longtail player, and the adobe examples that I have tried. That article suggests using the dropped frames property, in conjunciton with bufferlength to determine if switching is neccessary. Unfortunately I can't seem to find a player online which handles this successfully. That being said, I can't believe I'm the only person trying to implement dynamic bitrate switching for live streams so surely there are some players out there which can do this successfully? If anyone knows of any code available which does this successfully I would appreciate knowing where! The examples provided by Adobe https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=fms35 unfortunately don't work either.

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Make sure that your database has the full path and that you
are tetsing in
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Certified Dreamweaver MX2004 Professional
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Valleybiz Internet Design
www.valleybiz.net
"fool" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:eec8i6$9f3$[email protected]..
> Thanks - I inserted the media player which came with
Dreamweaver 8 and
> the
> following code was generated:
>
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=8,0,0,0" width="130" height="98"
id="FLVPlayer">
> <param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf"
/>
> <param name="salign" value="lt" />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <param name="scale" value="noscale" />
> <param name="FlashVars"
>
value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Corona_Skin_1&streamName=videos/naomi3&au
> toPlay=false&autoRewind=false" />
> <embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf"
>
flashvars="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Corona_Skin_1&streamName=videos/naomi
> 3&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false"
quality="high" scale="noscale"
> width="130"
> height="98" name="FLVPlayer" salign="LT"
> type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/>
> </object>
>
> I attempted to replace 'videos/naomi3' (the file is at
video/naomi.flv)
> with
> <?php echo $row_d['video']; ?>(this is the field
of the sql table in which
> the
> location to the flv file is located, but nothing
happened (no video
> appeared).
>
> The mysql table is set up properly as I can view image
files which are
> linked
> to by paths in the MySQL table so the problem can't be
that.
>
> Thanks
>

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# Question
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