How do debug AIR for iOS

Hello,
I've bought Flash Professional CS6 almost an year ago and I'm trying to debug an app that crashes in iOS devices.
What is the best way to do this?
I would use Adobe Scout but it doesn't exist anymore as a trial since Adobe introduced Creative Cloud.
Please help me?
Thanks

Are you using the option for "Quick publishing for device testing" upon export to test your app? Then it will stay connected to Flash as you use it on your device and give you relevant debugging information.
What is going on in your app around the time it crashes? Are you using any device capabilities (camera, etc), accessing the filesystem, using the net, etc?
What OS are you on? You can test your apps in simulator with instruments running if you're on Mac OSX which can show you a complex but deep heap shot but you should know some obj-c to make good use of it because it names the libraries in use.

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Hi Sir,
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Thanks to everyone who replied.
The conclusiver answer is that there are only 2 ways to display H264 video in AIR for IOS
(more info here http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/NetStream.htm l#play%28%29)
1. Progressive download
2. HLS format (slight caveat, in my tests at least, OSMF 1.6.1 does'nt handle this, but if you use the NetStream directly with StageVideo enabled it works)
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FMS 4.5 H.264 Streaming test matrix
RTMP
HDS
HLS
HTTP Progressive Download
AIR for Android
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
AIR on Windows (Desktop)
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
AIR on IOS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Safari Browser on IOS
No
No
Yes
No

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