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Streaming for Android devices using Amazon AWS and Adobe FMS 4.5

Apr 11, 2012 8:37 AM

Tags: #adobe #android #live_streaming #fms_4.5 #amazon #aws

I have created a live stream using Amazon Web Services and Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5.

 

AWS provides me with both a .f4m and .m3u8 file, to use in  <object><embed> and  <video> tags, respectively.

 

The .f4m loads fine on my desktop browser, and the .m3u8 file loads fine on my iOS device. However, my Android devices will not load either file.

 

What code/solutions are there to get this to play on Android devices?

 

My current .f4m code (retrieved from http://www.osmf.org/configurator/fmp):

 

<object width="600" height="409">

    <param name="movie" value="http://fpdownload.adobe.com/strobe/FlashMediaPlayback_101.swf"></param>

    <param name="flashvars" value="src=http%3A%2F%2F<myinfo>.cloudfront.net%2Fhds-live%2Flivepkgr %2F_definst_%2Fliveevent%2Flivestream.f4m"></param>

    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>

    <embed src="http://fpdownload.adobe.com/strobe/FlashMediaPlayback_101.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always"

                allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="409" flashvars="src=http%3A%2F%2F<myinfo>.cloudfront.net%2Fhds-live%2Flive pkgr%2F_definst_%2Fliveevent%2Flivestream.f4m">

    </embed>

</object>

 

My current .m3u8 code:

 

<video src="http://myinfo>.cloudfront.net/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/livestream.m3u8 " height="300" width="400"> </video>

1616 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: Shiraz Anwar, Apr 16, 2012 11:09 PM
 
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  • JohnASmith21
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    1. JohnASmith21,
    Apr 12, 2012 11:28 AM   in reply to JohnASmith21
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    Anyone have insight/thoughts on this? This would seem to be a pretty common want from streaming...

     
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  • Shiraz Anwar
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    2. Shiraz Anwar,
    Apr 13, 2012 12:47 AM   in reply to JohnASmith21
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    Hi John,

    I have just tried with an OSMF player on my android device and was successfully able to ply one of the hds vod streams that ships with FMS4.5.

    I have created this player once for my own testing purpose, so when I have provided the url like - "http://<myamazoninstance>/hds-vod/sample1_150kbps.f4v.f4m", it started stremaing without issues.

    Although, so far I havent tried making a html, hosting on a webserver and then finding the issue.

    What I will suggest you to directly play the stream on your android device using the swf file and see if it plays fine.

    Just in case if you like I can share the air apk I have used to test this functionality.

    Regards,

    Shiraz Anwar

     
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    3. Shiraz Anwar,
    Apr 13, 2012 1:33 AM   in reply to Shiraz Anwar
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    Few additional things which I just came across while setting up for live stream on my Android from AWS are as follows:

     

    1. for the first time when I tried to run the live stream on my android app, it didnt run at all and I thought your concerns are valid for an instance :-) .

    2. Later, I killed the application from task manager, restarted it cleanly and again provided the url and it streamed without issues.

     

    Please also ensure that:

     

    - You had put a crossdomain.xml file under <fmsinstalldirectory>/webroot folder.

    - You have provided the correct stream name in the <media> tag in Manifest.xml file inside <fmsinstalldirectory>/livepkgr/events/_definst_/liveevent folder

     

    (hopefully you have done it since you are already playing it on PC)

     

    You may also like to cehck the apache logs inside <fmsinstalldirectory>/Apache2.2/logs/access_logs folder to find whether your Android device request is reaching to the server.

     

    Hope these steps will help you in osloating the problem.

     

    Regards,

    Shiraz Anwar

     
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  • JohnASmith21
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    4. JohnASmith21,
    Apr 16, 2012 3:57 PM   in reply to Shiraz Anwar
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    Where can I find/how do I access the FMS Install Directory and files? I'm on AWS and their CloudFormation - how can I access the files to see the logs and .xml files?

     

    Edit: Found the answers here: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/support/20100413/how-do-you-get-data -and-out-ec2-instance

     

    As to the Android, I tried again and all loads fine.

     
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  • Shiraz Anwar
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    5. Shiraz Anwar,
    Apr 16, 2012 11:09 PM   in reply to JohnASmith21
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    In context of AWS, you may like to check following locations:

    fms logs - /mnt/logs - here you will get master.00.log, access.00.log, edge.00.log and other applications and admin logs

    fms application folder - /mnt/applications - location to put your fms applications

    fms webroot folder - /mnt/webroot folder

    default fms install directory - /opt/adobe/fms

    fms conf file locations - /opt/adobe/fms/conf - here you will find all the xml files

    Apache directory - /opt/adobe/fms/Apache2.2

    Apache logs directory  - /opt/adobe/fms/Apache2.2/logs - for HDS/HLS logging purpose

     

    Hope this will help.

     
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