FLV Stops Early

Question

I am having problems trying to play an FLV with Flash Media
Server 3. The FLV stops early with only a NetStream.Play.Stop. I do
not believe this is a buffering issue where the end of the file is
reached before the client plays the end of the file as I am playing
the FLV as a lives tream on FMS and a client subscribes to the live
stream. On the server the live stream is the one that sends a
NetStream.Play.Stop message and the flex client no longer gets the
FLV audio. Also the amount of time the FLV stops playing before the
actual end of the file is random. Sometimes it only plays 1.5
minutes of a 30 min FLV, sometimes it plays 15 min, sometimes it
plays all the way through. Starting the FLV at any point other than
the beginning seems to make it slightly better, but it still has
the same issue. Any ideas?

Answer 1

It says theres supposed to be a "Attach Code" button but I
dont see one?
The time it plays on the server is random, sometimes it only
plays a few minutes of the stream, sometimes it plays almost all of
it. The traces in the live log in FMS Console show that on our
server the live stream stops early and never continues. Below is
code for a complete test app that causes the issue for us.
I created a small fms app, code is below.
quote:
// load the remoting classes
load("netservices.asc");
const FILENAME = "14216_0";
const STREAMNAME = "testStream";
application.onAppStart = function()
var s = Stream.get(STREAMNAME);
s.onStatus = onStatus;
s.onPlayStatus = onPlayStatus;
trace("Length of stream is " + Stream.length(FILENAME));
//s.setBufferTime(5);
trace("Length of buffer is " + s.bufferTime);
s.play(FILENAME, 0, -1, true);
application.onConnect = function(cl)
trace("onConnect called.");
for (var prop in cl)
trace("\t" + prop + ":\t" + cl[prop]);
trace("");
application.acceptConnection(cl);
application.onDisconnect = function(cl)
trace("onDisconnect called.");
for (var prop in cl)
trace("\t" + prop + ":\t" + cl[prop]);
trace("");
application.onPublish = function(cl, s)
trace("onPublish called.");
trace("\tClient info:");
for (var prop in cl)
trace("\t\t" + prop + ":\t" + cl[prop]);
trace("");
trace("\tStream info:");
for (var prop in s)
trace("\t\t" + prop + ":\t" + s[prop]);
trace("");
application.onUnpublish = function(cl, s)
trace("onUnpublish called.");
trace("\tClient info:");
for (var prop in cl)
trace("\t\t" + prop + ":\t" + cl[prop]);
trace("");
trace("\tStream info:");
for (var prop in s)
trace("\t\t" + prop + ":\t" + s[prop]);
trace("");
function onStatus(info)
trace("[onStatus] " + info.code + " - " + info.description +
" - " + info.level);
function onPlayStatus(info)
trace("Netstream.onPlayStatus called.");
for (var prop in info)
trace("\t" + prop + ":\t" + info[prop]);
trace("");
I then created a small flex test client, that connects to
rtmp://HOST/flvTest/test. Once it connects it calls playStream()
which subscribes to the liveStream "testStream".
quote:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute" xmlns:ns1="*">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.core.UIComponent;
private var nc:NetConnection;
private var ns:NetStream;
private const HOST:String = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1935";
private function onCreationComplete():void
nc = new NetConnection();
nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS,
onNCNetStatus);
private function onNCNetStatus(e:NetStatusEvent):void
addLog("[onNetConnectionStatus] " + e.info.code);
if (e.info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success")
playStream();
private function playStream():void
ns = new NetStream(nc);
ns.client = this;
ns.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onNSStatus);
ns.bufferTime = .1;
addLog("Stream's buffertime is " + ns.bufferTime);
ns.play("testStream");
private function connect():void
nc.connect("rtmp://" +HOST + "/flvTest/test");
private function onNSStatus(e:NetStatusEvent):void
addLog("[NetStreamStatus] " + e.info.code);
private function disconnect():void
nc.close();
public function onMetaData(info:Object):void
for (var propName:String in info)
var val:String = info[propName];
addLog("[onMetaData] " + propName + " = " + val);
public function onPlayStatus(info:Object):void
for (var propName:String in info)
var val:String = info[propName];
addLog("[onPlayStatus] " + propName + " = " + val);
private function addLog(text:String):void
var d:Date = new Date();
txtLog.text += d.toLocaleDateString() + " " +
d.toLocaleTimeString() + text + "\n";
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Panel width="80%" height="80%" layout="vertical"
verticalCenter="0" horizontalCenter="0" title="FLVTest"
creationComplete="onCreationComplete()">
<mx:TextArea width="100%" height="100%" id="txtLog"/>
<mx:ControlBar horizontalAlign="center">
<mx:Button label="Connect" buttonMode="true"
click="connect()"/>
<mx:Button label="Disconnect" buttonMode="true"
click="disconnect()"/>
</mx:ControlBar>
</mx:Panel>
</mx:Application>
I placed a sample FLV into
/usr/local/macromedia/fms/applications/flvTest/streams/test/14216_0.flv.