Recording Live Streams on FMS remotely

Hi,
We're using FMSS 3 to stream live feeds from cameras.
However, we'd also like to have the ability to (via an
administration site) record these live streams and allow the user
to view pre-recorded streams instead of the live ones.
Does anyone know of an example of how I can tell FMS to start
recording a stream (via a web service or AS), and then how to stop
it? Just for clarification - we don't want FMS to record a stream
from the user's own camera. We want to record the live streams that
are already streaming on FMS.
Thanks,
Filip Stanek
bloodforge.com

you can creat an app folder in fms folder which is inside of
ur setup folder,
for details u can mail at [email protected]

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Problem playing remote live stream from FMS

Hello all,
I'm having problems playing remote live streams from FMS (server-side) that I can play with any other player (client-side)
Example of server-side application which plays a remote live stream:
nc = new NetConnection();
nc.connect("rtmp://remoteserver/live");
stream = Stream.get("localStream");
stream.play("remoteStream.flv", -1, -1, true, nc);
This code works only sometimes.
Most of the times, FMS is able to connect to remote string and the localStream dispatches events:
   NetStream.Publish.Strart
   NetStream.Play.Reset
In this case, FMS is publishing the local stream but it is not playing the remoteStrem on it.
The rest of the times, localStream dispatches events:
   NetStream.Publish.Strart
   NetStream.Play.Reset
   NetStream.Play.Start
   NetStream.Data.Start
In this case FMS plays the remoteStream correctly.
Any hint to solve this issue?
Regards.

Thanks, I tried your code and it works when playing a remote live stream on another FMS.
But the remote live stream is not on a FMS but on a Wowza Server which re-streams an RTSP stream over RTMP.
With this code:
var nc;
var myStream;
application.onAppStart = function(){
     nc = new NetConnection();
     myStream = Stream.get("localstream");
     myStream.onStatus= function(info){
           trace(info.code);
     nc.onStatus = function(info){
           trace (info.code);
           if(info.code == "NetConnection.Connect.Success" ){
                myStream.play("remoteLive.sdp", -1, -1, true, nc);
     nc.connect("rtmp://remoteServer/live");
Every live stream player I tried was able to play the remote stream "remoteLive.sdp", but FMS play it only sometimes. This is the output log of the FMS application:
NetConnection.Connect.Success
NetStream.Publish.Start
NetStream.Play.Reset        <--------------------------------- Stuck there, stream won't play
Unloaded application instance wowza4/_definst_ <--- Reload app
NetConnection.Connect.Success
NetStream.Publish.Start
NetStream.Play.Reset        <--------------------------------- Stuck there, stream won't play
Unloaded application instance wowza4/_definst_ <--- Reload app
NetConnection.Connect.Success
NetStream.Publish.Start
NetStream.Play.Reset
NetStream.Play.Start       <--------------------------------- Stream is playing just fine
NetStream.Data.Start
Unloaded application instance wowza4/_definst_ <--- Reload app
NetConnection.Connect.Success
NetStream.Publish.Start
NetStream.Play.Reset       <--------------------------------- Stuck there, stream won't play
Any idea? Why FMS won't play it everytime?
Regards

Archiving live stream at FMS and injecting metadata: VP6 good h264 not

When I record a live stream at FMS, one in which I've injected metadata in my main.asc file, the archived file plays back fine. The metadata plays back too. I'm able to retreive it just fine - if I encode VP6.
If I encode h.264 the file plays back but the metadata does not. The fact that the archived file is created and plays back tells me things are wired correctly. The only thing I changed is the format.
According to FMS docs (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_SS_ASD/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a11afc9 5e-7e42.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a11afc95e-7f35)
..."The recording format is determined by the filename you pass to the Stream.get()
method."
So my record code looks like the following:
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     trace("onPublish");
     s = Stream.get("mp4:streamname.f4v");
     if(s){
         s.record();
     this.doRepublish(this.nc, stream);
My code that injects the data in to the stream looks like this:
Client.prototype.sendDataEvent = function(data) {
     trace("Call to sendDataEvent...");
     this.newStream = Stream.get("mp4:streamname.f4v");
     this.newStream.send("onTextData",data);
All must be wired correctly because the metadata comes through during the live stream. On play back of the archive though, the metadata doesn't appear to be there.
Any thoughts?
Thanks

My apologies on the s.play() confusion. I had been trying different versions of the code and posted the one without it.
Whether I include s.play() or not the file gets created. Here are the various versions of the onPublish() function I've tried (differences in red):
1.
application.onPublish = function(client, stream) {
    trace("onPublish");
    s = Stream.get("mp4:streamname.f4v");
    if(s){
        s.record();
        s.play("mp4:streamname.f4v");
    this.doRepublish(this.nc, stream);
2.
application.onPublish = function(client, stream) {
    trace("onPublish");
    s = Stream.get("mp4:streamname.f4v");
    if(s){
        s.record();
        s.play(stream);
    this.doRepublish(this.nc, stream);
3.
application.onPublish = function(client, stream) {
     trace("onPublish");
     s = Stream.get("mp4:streamname.f4v");
     if(s){
         s.record();
     this.doRepublish(this.nc, stream);
All produce the same result - an archived file called mp4:streamname.f4v in my streams folder. This file plays back fine but does not play back the commands.
On your other question, about things working fine for VP6, it works fine for FLV. A file called streamname.flv is produced. This file plays back fine and does indeed play back commands baked into the file as well. This is what makes me believe the code is not the problem. If it works perfectly for one format, there would seem to be very little I could do in my code to break things for the other.
Can you try this using the record() code snippets in the live docs Stream.record() section?
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_SS_ASD/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a11afc9 5e-7e42.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a11afc95e-7f35
All you'd need is the code snippets there to record your live stream and another server side function to inject commands into that live stream. Here is that function:
Client.prototype.sendDataEvent = function(data) {
    trace("Call to sendDataEvent...");
    this.newStream = Stream.get("mp4:streamname.f4v");
    this.newStream.send("onTextData",data);
Do something simple like call onTextData and pass some text in the data parameter. Then on the client side viewer, handle the onTextData method. It will receive the text. Display it in a text area or something.
If you record while injecting this text into your stream, the text should display on playback of the archived file. It will if you encode VP6/FLV, but not if you encode H.264/F4V.
Let me know what you discover.

Record Live event on FMS

I have same issue by FMS and F4V format.
I want to archive live event at same time and to do that I record live stream in F4V format on the onPublish event.
This is main.asc codes:
[code]
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var liveStream = Stream.get("f4f:" + streamName.name);
liveStream.record();
liveStream.play(streamName,-1,-1);
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[code]
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I don't know what's a problem
I use FMS 5 extended edition and FFMPEG for stream webcam on to the FMS
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[code]
ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="A4TECH USB2.0 PC Camera" -vcodec libx264 -b:v 32k -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 64k -ar 44100 -f flv rtmp://12.11.1.3/livepkgr/liveevent?adbe-live-event=liveevent
[code]
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Many Thanks.

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[code]
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Record Live Streaming Video

Does iMovie allow me to play and simultaneously record live streaming video?

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How to copy recorded live stream to new drive

I was wondering if anyone out there knows how to copy a recorded live stream to a new drive on the server? I can copy the file within the virtual app directory but not to another drive.
The only solution i found was to edit the application.xml:
<StreamManager>
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But unfortunately i need to rename the file once its recorded, and i'm having a hard time accessing that drive/directory where the file is located.
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Hi,
What I understood from your query I am providing you a solution:
1. You can use the below to copy recorded live stream to new drive/directory in Application.xml
<StreamManager>
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</StreamManager>
2. By default, a script can access files and directories only within the application directory of the hosting application. A server administrator can grant access to additional directories by specifying virtual directory mappings for File object paths. This is done in the FileObject tag in the Application.xml file, as shown in the following example:
<FileObject>
      <VirtualDirectory>/_definst_;e:\Sync\_definst_\</VirtualDirectory>
</FileObject>
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application.onConnect = function(client) {
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Fms force record live streams

Hi there,
Just wondering if it is possible to force recording of all streams in a given application ...
So the scenario s that the client is sending live stream, but as well as this we need to recrd that stream . I know I can do sass and create a stream object. But I ned red if there was a better way which would be a simple config option
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Matt

Hi Matt,
I don't think you can accomplish DVR without writing a server side script.
You can, however, go through this- the DVR reference guide:
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I am experiencing a very strange behavior from FMS
I am conducting a live conversation between 2 people using
their webcams. One of the participants have a relatively slow
computer (we think its the anti-virus). When conducting the live
session everything seems to be fine... Still a bit slower than fast
computers but still pretty good.
We are doing the following test:
We do a combined count from 1 to 20.
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Again, only after hearing his "2" participant-1 counts "3"
and so on...
so the count goes from participant-1 to the server and from
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to the server and so on...
This session is being recorded. What I am getting in the
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I am getting participant-2 count before participant-1. So the
count goes:
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Time shifting and record live stream

Hellow everyone,
I would like to stream videos for my viewers and them have a abiliti to timeshifting live stream.
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For archive and play on the VOD mode I like to stream live and record at same time. in the livepkgr I see in the stream folder create a stream file with the f4f extention automaticaly whoever in the live application I should call application.record on the FMS to save live stream on the server.
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Many Thanks.

livepkgr application for for HTTP streaming...
f youjust want to stream over rtmp use live application and code to record the stream...recording is pretty simple in AMS just call Stream.get() s.record(...) s.play() where s is the stream which you are recording...
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Encode archive of live stream on FMS 4

I thought by what I have initially read that this was possible, but I am not sure.
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We are at a University and capture lecture powerpoints natively and sometimes need to edit the files. flv is not enough and we would like to take afvantage of mp4 and the FMS server while we use it for overflow as a recorder.
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Thanks
-Brian

Recording can be triggered via client-side publish call, or via server-side script. From the publish cmd, you specify "record" option. For example,
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ns.publish("mp4:foo");
then from server-side AS, do something like,
// this handler is called when a stream is published
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you can creat an app folder in fms folder which is inside of
ur setup folder,
for details u can mail at [email protected]

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I tried to inject my own metadata into a live stream (webcam) recorded on FMS 4.5.1
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this example
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/devguide/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0773d56e -7ff6Dev.html
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Thanks

well,
I exactly respected the example of the link you gave by modifying the Application.xml, but if it was a segment problem
how can you explain that the NON custom metadas are successfully modified ?
please check this link
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/devguide/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0773d56e -7ff6Dev.html
I even tried the official property called createdby and creationdate without success. I was able to change only width and height
the code I use from the client is exactly the example of adobe manual, in AS2 and AS3
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