Publish prerecorded video or image, instead of Camera in ActionScript3 via RTMP to FMS

Question

I'm looking for a way to stream video or image from the desktop to an FMS installation, in the case it does not exist a webcam or a mic. I know that in ActionScript, it's possible to do:
netStream.attachCamera(camera); netStream.attachAudio(mic);
but not:
netStream.attachVideo(file);
Is there another way to get by this without using FMLE?
I found also this question, but no solution    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6035220/publish-prerecorded-or-live-video-instead-of-ca mera-in-flash-flex-air-via-rtm

Answer 1

I'm not sure exactly what your needs are but are you using Flash merely because it can send streams to servers? In other words are you open to using other applications to send streams or is this some small part of a larger Flash based app?
The bottom line is Adobe restricted data generation mode from NetStream unless NetConnection is set to null. That guarantees you can't connect to a FMS using NetConnection.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/NetStream.htm l#appendBytes%28%29 :
To put a NetStream into Data Generation Mode, call NetStream.play(null) on a NetStream created on a NetConnection connected to null
You may want to look at alternative streamers like the one you linked or many others for task. I'm really not sure why they chose to disallow this.
BTW is this an AIR app? If so it may have some legs with a custom solution provided by tapping into an ANE. I haven't researched if one exists already. I do a lot of layered streaming in gaming with other apps like Open Broadcaster and ManyCam.