Streaming Video and Flash?

[deleted984054565403]

Hey everyone,

Is there a way to have live streaming video feed play through a Flash player somehow? Currently, we have a feed pulling to broadcast our programs in a Windows Media Player window, but we'd really like to provide something more lightweight and versatile and simply embedding a video.

Is this possible, or am I just dreaming?

Our video feed looks something like this; I have no idea what format it's playing in:
mms://rlmtv.com/RLMtv_Feed_1

Thanks for your help!
Steve

 

[pixelbypixel]

Pretty sure you can code flash to receive a feed, if you write your own flash player.
Im not experienced in streaming ActionScript, but i'd be 90% sure its possible..

 

[deleted984054565403]

Thanks, NVD.

Does anybody else have any ideas?

 

[nasaboy007]

Live streaming via flash is 100% POSSIBLE (look at sites such as ustream.tv and stickam.com). their live streaming services use flashplayer 10.

im sorry to say i have no idea how the backend of it works, but since it exists it definately is possible - hopefully somebody else would know how it's done (or worst comes to worst you could contact stickam / ustream and ask them who programmed their site and go from there)

 

[deleted984054565403]

Thanks, nasaboy007. That's a very good point and some great examples.

Anybody else? :]

 

[Jim_]

You'll need to set up Flash Media Server

Here's a tutorial from Adobe's site:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/beginner_live_fms3.html

I haven't looked into the process of setting up and streaming from the server, but the actionscript for a player doesn't look too difficult.

Another possible option would be to use a JAVA applet (though, everyone seems to hate java applets these days) to play the live video stream. I haven't done too much research into it, but I'd assume there must be some sort of premade applets for playing live video streams online somewhere.

 

[deleted984054565403]

Thanks, Jim (long time no see, by the way).

I'll look into that. That link is helpful.

I hadn't considered Java; that's not a bad idea.