FMS for syncing background video

I have a question regarding which version of Flash Media Server will best serve the project I am currently working on and whether the approach I have in mind is possible with FMS.
The project envolves Flash Media Server syncing a dynamic background across multiple Flash Players running on separate computers on the same local network. One approach is to have FMS handle the variables and calculation on its side and communicate this to the other Flash Players (this I understand can be done with the Streaming Server).
The second approach is to have FMS execute ActionScript on its own side to create the dynamic background and then serve this out as a video stream to the other computers. (With this approach FMS can completely takeover the processing required to generate the background content and the other computers only need to play it back as video. Is this type of approach possible with FMS and, if yes, with which version.
If I am unclear about any part of my question, please feel free to ask. Thank you.

Scenario 1 is possible with any version of FMS. The caveat to that is, if using Streaming Server, you'll need a .swf client (or other client that can send AMF data over a netstream) to send the data across a netstream using netstream.send(). The reason for this is that Streaming Server cannot execute server side actionscript, so the data has to be published to the stream from the client side.
Scenario 2 is not possible with any version of FMS. FMS can't composite video or draw video frames, it can only serve pre-recorded video content or live streams published from client side applications.

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