NetConnection and NetStream in Director: Is it impossible to have more than one incoming Stream?

Question

Hi there,
I'm working on a Director 11.5 video chat for 3 people. You shall see your webcam video as a little and the two you are connected with as a big video panel. So good so far, I managed to show my own webcam video without streaming it and managed to see one of the others as an incoming stream.
The problem is: as soon as there's a second script initiating a second InStream (no matter how I name it), only the one with the lower sprite number shows it's stream. When I disable the script for this lower sprite, then the second one is playing, so it can't be due to an incorrect script.
I already emilinated two misstakes which made it not working at all at the beginning:
First I tried to use the NetConnection object (for sending my own video stream, works fine) also for creating an input stream. That didn't work. It's a different scene where I set up and play the inStreams (I made the NetConnection object global). So now I set up a new NetConnection for each stream: one outStream and two inStreams.
First I also used only one swf member and made several sprites of it. This didn'Ät work at all, also using the same behavior for the two other-perople-players. So i copied ad pasted the swf and also the behavior. I also renamed every variable in the second behavior with a "2" at the end, just to be sure.
Then it worked at least - but still only for one inStream.
The architecure of my Director film is the following:
I've got two scenes. First scene is an input field to type your name and a "connect" button. Behind this button there's a behavior setting a connection to the server (by using a swf sprite which isn't visible yet) and sending my webcam video and name to the server. This part works fine.
(Picture shows scene 2)
Second scene consists of three swf sprites - one is to show my own webcam video directly from PC. This one already existed in the first scene, for I have to use a swf for setting up a NetConnection. The second and third swf sprites are connected to a behavior script which sets up a new connection (in exitFrame, with a bool variable "firsttime" to make sure it only happens once).
I also have two drop down field each below a partner chat swf. Here I show all people who are logged in at the server, it automatically updates. The one you chose in the drop down is the video you will see in the swf sprite above. Thid works fine (if it works with the inStream).
The script for playing the own webcam video is placed at the first frame of the second scene and only refers to the swf for my own video (which already occurs in scene 1). Well, that's all I think. I'll post the code for the two partner player swf here. Please have a look at it to find a misstake - or maybe again it's some strange Director behavior (like two sprites of one member didn't work) which I cannot think of...
Code for the behavior script of the partner swf for partner 1. The script for partner 2 is exactly the same, but every variable has a "2" at it's end.
global firsttime1
global gUserList
property gNetConn
property InStream
on exitFrame  me
  if (firsttime1) then  
    pSprite = sprite(me.spritenum)  
    gNetConn = pSprite.newObject("NetConnection")  
    gNetConn.connect("rtmp://212.122.56.2/flashcam")  
    InStream = pSprite.newObject("NetStream", gNetConn)    put "InStream " & InStream
    InStream.play(gUserList[1])  
    pVideoClip = pSprite.getVariable("VideoClip",FALSE)
    put "pVideoClip " & pVideoClip
    pVideoClip.attachVideo(InStream)  
    firsttime1 = false
  end if
end exitFrame
on updateInStream aArg1, aArg2
-- that method is called by the drpdown script when some change occured
  put "neuer Partner 1: " & aArg2
  partner = aArg2
  InStream.play(partner) 
end updateInStream
on endsprite me
  if not(voidP(InStream)) then
    InStream.close()
  end if  
end endsprite
I'd appreciate every idea or help! Thank you!
Jana

Answer 1

No you can only have one - so you'll need to manually merge