By William B. Sanders
March 2008
Pages: 273
Series: Adobe Developer Library
Format: PDF
ISBN 10: 0-596-51590-1 |
ISBN 13: 9780596515904
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
If you're interested in recording and streaming media using Flash Media Server 3 (FMS3) and Adobe's Real-Time Messaging Protocol, this 267-page PDF-only book is the perfect primer. web developers familiar with Flash Media Server 2 or Flash Communication Server 1.5 will quickly discover that FMS3 is a different animal. Each chapter in this step-by-step guide focuses on a specific aspect of the server and how to develop FMS3 applications with ActionScript 3.0.
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FMS3 is very different from regular web servers. Because its open-socket server technology stays connected until users quit the application, you can stream audio, video, text, and other media in real time. FMS3 is also quite different from previous versions, a fact that web developers familiar with Flash Media Server 2 or Flash Communication Server 1.5 will quickly discover.
Don't worry. With Learning Flash Media Server 3 and a little experience with Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3.0, anyone can get up to speed in no time. You'll learn how to install FMS3, organize your development environment with Apache web server, and use the management console before diving into the whys and hows of:
- Recording and playing back streaming audio and video in VP6 and H.264 formats
- Using the new Flash Media Encoder to stream and record video
- Camera and microphone settings
- Non-persistent client-side remote shared objects
- Two-way audio-video communications
- Broadcasting and server-side bandwidth control
- Working with server-side files: the file class
- Server-side shared objects
- Server-side streams
- Setting up a software load handler using FMS3's new server-side NetStream
- Bringing in data and working with configuration files
At the heart of every chapter is a core set of code that shows the minimum requirements needed for different procedures. Beyond that, Learning Flash Media Server 3 provides you with plenty of options for using FMS3's different versions -- the full-feature server, the streaming-only server, and the limited-user development server. It's a whole new world of media, and this book puts you right at the doorstep. Ready to enter?
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Great way to tackle FMS 3, May 05 2008
Flash Media Server 3 by Willam Sanders is an excellent resource for getting started with this technology. I am working on a new Flex project and needed to get up to speed with FMS 3 right away. This book provided good examples for lots of different scenarios that allowed me to string together my own example and get working on the project fast. It walks through all the different aspects of FMS 3 from shared objects to streaming audio and video. Its breadth of topics really allowed me to get a better understanding of what was available with FMS 3 and how it could be utilized within the scope of various projects. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is struggling with the concept of FMS 3 or someone who just wants to know how to handle all of the server events.
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