Flash media server whar exactly?

Hello,
I would please like to know the following:
1) Can FMS be used for progressive downloading?
2) Is limelight Networks just like flash media server in
terms that you save the data on their server not yours?
3) is FMS (in theory) the same as windows server?
Tanks for you time and contribution! =D

1) Can FMS be used for progressive downloading?
Yes, but why would you bother? A standard web server will let
you do that.
The beauty of the Flash server is that is lets you stream
live or reorded video and run actionscript applications like chat
or video conferencing and more.
Streaming video from a flash server is instant on (like
youtube) and lets you jump to any point in the video - something
progressive download won't let you do.

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be an exact aspect ratio and have the same skin, and exact same
controls as my flash files, but I don't want to work with Real
Server or a Windows Media Server to serve these files what is the
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the formats listed.
Where would I be able to get information that will help me
achieve this ?

There are two parts to this,
Flash Media Server application - both client and server side. Check out the video conference app here http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/sample_apps.html.
The client side app will be a .swf file which you can develop in Flash/Flex.
Second, you will have to embed this swf file in your asp.net page that will be delivered to browsers. I am not an expert in asp.net but googled a bit and get a feeling it's possible using
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You should be able to stream from a Flash Media Server.
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_defaultRoot_L_defaultVHost_:::_0 expierenced 1 failure's
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I am trying to develop a game in flex, using flash media server 4.5. As its a multiplayer game, the server side code, should be multi threaded.
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I am not sure if this exactly will help you but you can use SharedObject class to store data shared by different clients. With this you can also achieve synchronization. Below link has the details about SharedObject class:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/SharedObject. html
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Hi. It looks like your code is not finding the mp3. At least,
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[email protected]

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Flash media server whar exactly?

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