Hi,

Firstly I wanted to clarify if you're gertting a connection error, i.e you're not able to make a connection to the application itself, or if you're getting an error when you try to play your stream (like Stream Not Found)?

Since you've mentioned that you're able to play sample files, I'm assuming that you're able to make connections to the application successfully.

Coming to the problem with playback of custom media, are you using the sample vod application to playback your files or are you copying the code into a different application and then using that?

If you have copied the files from vod into a custom application then the application specific virtual directory mapping for recorded streams still points to that under the vod application. So you're able to play the sample files as they are present under root_install/applications/vod/media (the default media location for vod app) but not your f4v files placed in custom_application/media directory, as it is not looking in that folder.

To point the virtual directory to a custom location, in the Application.xml of your application either change/add the following tag with the folder path :

<Application>

          <StreamManager>

                    <VirtualDirectory>

      <!-- Specifies application specific virtual directory mapping for recorded streams.   -->

      <Streams>/;${VOD_COMMON_DIR}</Streams>  //default. Can be removed

      <Streams>/;${VOD_DIR}</Streams>                   //default. Can be removed

      <Streams>/;path_to_your_media_folder</Streams>      //add this

                    </VirtualDirectory>

          </StreamManager>

After this Resart FMS and retry. You should now be able to play your media.

The same holds for the live application. The folder where the published streams are mapped points to the live application folder. If you have a custom application you can edit this path the same way.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Apurva

Hi,

Firstly, I tired a simple placback of a sample file from your server as rtmp://macmedia.sas-ga.org/vod/sample and it was fine. I then tried playbcak of your custom file as rtmp://macmedia.sas-ga.org/vod/mp4:zebtest.f4v and I could play it back fine. So there doesn't seem to be any problem on the server side.

Coming to the way the request url has been formed, is there a particular reaso that it's being used as rtmp://macmedia.sas-ga.org/applications/vod/media/mp4:zebtest.f4v ? Unless the player has some inbuilt logic to recognise the format, the general syntax for requesting a file is ;

protocol://server-domain-or-IP/fms-app-name/[fms-app-instance-name/][c odec-prefix:]file-path[filename-extension]

You can find more information here :http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/devguide/WS0432746db30523 c21e63e3d12eea2a8fc0-8000.html

Thanks,

Apurva