Publishing and receiving a webcam broadcast

Question

I have Flash Media Server 2 installed, and would like to
write an application whereby two people can chat one on one.
Now, I don't want to use simpleconnect, as I'd like to
integrate this into an existing website with it's own
authentication methods.
I've been attempting to get it working, but although I can
get the local webcam displaying fine, and can even tweak the
quality etc., I can't for the life of me get it published remotely.
If anyone has any pointers, that'd be great.
So far with regard to the video publishing part of it, I've
come up with:
quote:
localCam = Camera.get();
localVideo.attachVideo(localCam);
sConn = new NetConnection();
sConn.connect("rtmp://localhost/1", "test");
lStream = new NetStream(rConn);
lStream.publish(localCam);
Also, am I right in thinking that to retrieve a webcam stream
from the rtmp source, I would have to use
http://host/appinstance/clientid
Or would this not be the way?

Answer 1

Have you checked out the samples on devnet? You should find
everything you need there.
Why are you using rConn instead of sConn to establish your
netstream?
sConn = new NetConnection();
sConn.connect("rtmp://localhost/1", "test");
lStream = new NetStream(
rConn);
I think this was just a typo.
When you publish, give it a name:
Instead of using: lStream.publish(localCam);
do lStream.publish(username); // where username is a string
Check out the flashmediaserver_cs_asd.pdf, page 102.
Also, currently you don't care whether or not the connection
has been established. Make sure you wait before you create your
Netstream on top of the connection. There is a great article on how
to build such an application on Adobe Devnet:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashcom/articles/broadcast_receiver.html
To build a 2-way chat you would also have to put both users
in the same "room". The easiest way to achieve this is to create
new application instances for each new user pair, then connect to
with rtmp://host/application/new_instance _name and play the video
of the other user.
There's some information in article
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/central/articles/vchat_04.html
This article is about how to build a 2-way video chat w/
central, but you can possibly strip out that code.
Instead, I recommend having a look at the docs, i.e.
flashmediaserver_cs_asd.pdf to be found in your documentation
directory.