Recorded streams synchronization

We use FCS for audio conferencing.
We actually recorded all audio streams to the server from a
single meeting with many participants.
Now our problem is audio streams from different participants
gets recorded in a separate .flv file.
Now if we playback those streams they go out of sync, giving
user bad experience in case participants are discussing something
rather than a broadcast.
Is there any way we can avoid those recorded streams going
out of sync?
Any help or directions will be appreciated
Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately, there isn't a real fix for this. You can try
setting up functions that constantly compare the buffer and
playhead time of each stream, but that means everything has to stop
when one stream has an empty buffer. If other streams pause while
one rebuffers, they too have to rebuffer. Unless none of the
buffers ever empty, you'll never have sync.
Perhaps someday FMS will get a timecode system that will fix
this. I would be nice to have something like SMPTE and stream
splitting or multi source mosaic streams.
Now, if you can use progressive download for the playback
(instead of FMS), you might be able to make it work. Since the
video data is cached with progressive, you can pause one stream
while another buffers.

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Also, thought I'd mention that I have to start the servers from the Control Panel -> administrative tools -> services. If I try and start the server from the start menu, they dont start.
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