FMS; multicast streaming from Digital Rapids

Has anyone had experience configuring multicast streaming from Digital Rapids encoders to an FMS 4.5 server? I can stream RTMP to the FMS server and access the video with an embedded Flash player easily enough, but I'm interested in setting up the FMS to allow clients to access a multicast stream. Most Adobe support documentation refers to Adobe Media Encoder Live for the multicast connection configs, not necessarily non-Adobe encoders, so I'm missing a step or two.
Thanks,
Hugh

Following is the link to setup multicast streaming:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/devguide/WS7812b00092aae0 dc-2829dcd012a54a3ed1a-8000.html
Instead of publishing from Flash Media Live Encoder, you can publish from DR Encoder by making an "rtmp" connection to the "multicast" app on the AMS server and then start publishing to that app from the encoder using the "Publish Stream Name" generated by Multicast Config Tool.

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