Playing published streams through an administrator connection? (:1111)

Question

Hi all,
I am building a custom administration application which has to review streams published to our FMS application. This is to ban clients publishing inappropriate content. I am wondering if I have to make a connection to the application, as normal users do, in order to play the published streams? I am getting the list of streams using another connection, to rtmp://domain:1111/admin, like outlined in Administration API, and issuing the 'getLiveStreams' call.
The reason I am asking is because firstly, I remember that the Administration Console can play streams published to the server, but I don't recall it incrementing the connection count which shows amount of user clients connected to an application. Maybe I have missed however, but if I am right and it indeed can play streams without connecting to the application (which actually DOES sound a bit unlikely, given how the stream names are local to an app.), then maybe I can do it too? Secondly, I presently have to differentiate users and administrators in my 'onConnect' script, because are perform completely different roles. If I could relieve my admin. app from connecting to the application, I could also dump the role switching.
I am not sure what is the best thing to do here, frankly...

Answer 1

I am not sure how your linked post should help me. I have no problem connecting as an administrator to our own service.
My question is can I play streams through this administrator connection on port 1111, or like now, I have to keep a separate connection to the application in order to play application's streams?
I do NOT want to connect to the application, because I then am forced to become one of its "users", even though I am not - I am an admin. Even though I have implemented roles with my application server side script, whereas users connect with a bunch of parameters, I can connect with another role - as an admin, without parameters (because they do not apply to me since I only use the service for playing streams). Another reason is actually pretty annoying - even though I explicitly specify video sample access permission for both myself and any user that connects (in order to be able to take snapshots of the videos) using the "videoSampleAccess = '/'" expression, occasionally I STILL get security errors. I imagine if I somehow can bypass the security altogether. After all it is our server, and our users know that we need to monitor for unsuitable content. FMS makes it pretty hard to do so with the error listed above. The error is sporadic.
So I will ask again - can I play any stream I want of any application on my server, without connecting to the application instance as a regular user bound to security rules? I need some form of video administration, and I am NOT using Administration console, but a custom admin. application which does more than Admin console does, in particular kick out bad people.