Uploading Streaming Video

Question

I'm trying to upload a streaming flash video in Dreamweaver
and can't figure out what they want in the dialog box. Under server
URI, it asks for server name, app name and instance name to be
placed in this order:
rtmp://myserver/myapp/myinstance
I have obtained the server name but are not sure what is
meant by "my app" and "my instance." Also, in the next box, it asks
for the "stream name." Is that the URL or simply what I call the
video?
The Help explanation does not explain these at all. I would
appreciate any help anyone can give me. I'm new to the Dreamweaver
forum.
Thanks,
K.A.M

Answer 1

K.A.M. posted in macromedia.dreamweaver:
> I'm trying to upload a streaming flash video in
Dreamweaver and
> can't figure out what they want in the dialog box. Under
server
> URI, it asks for server name, app name and instance name
to be
> placed in this order:
>
> rtmp://myserver/myapp/myinstance
Are you running Flash Media Server (FMS) from your server or
are you
getting it from a 3rd party? I ask because I have limited
experience
with using FMS (formerly Flash Comm Server) via influxis.com.
If from a 3rd party such as influxis.com, then I suggest
using their
help system.
I'll give you my experience with influxis.com anyway.
If you're
using your own or a different FMS, you can simply ignore the
rest of
this reply.
With the interface provided by influxis, I created an
"application",
let's call it myapp for this reply. This process
automatically created
a main.asc and some sub folders under my account (myserver
for this
reply). As seen from their "File Admin" section (or SFTP) the
folders
are:
myapp
myapp/main.asc
myapp/streams
myapp/streams/_definst_
I upload all .flv files into the _definst_ folder as created.
Let's say
I uploaded myVideo.flv
myapp/streams/_definst_/myVideo.flv
In Flash (I haven't tried using DW directly), I set the
FLVPlayback
Component path to:
rtmp://myserver/myapp/myVideo
where myserver is my account name at Influxis, myapp is as I
created it
via their interface, and myVideo is the uploaded .flv file.
Note that I do not include the .flv extension and I do not
mention
streams or _definst_ in that path.
Again, this may simply be how Influxis has set up their FMS.
I have
never tried setting up FMS on any of our servers, so YMMV.
And, again,
I set this path within Flash's FLVPlayback component.
HTH
Next time I'm on my DW box, I'll take a peak at how DW
inserts such a
video player. I am curious about it.
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)