buffer grows without proportion until browser crashes.

hi and thanks for the introspection, let me try

to provide the information you asked:

* Which Flash Player version are you on?

     - The Client runs Flash Player 10 + (mostly latest releases)

* Which OS?
     - The server is running on centOS 5 machine (dedicated).

*  What is the bufferTime set in your client application
     - in client we set bufferTime = 5, in server we set (streamInstance).setBufferTime(5);

* What is  the type of stream you are playing? audio and video codec?
     - H.264 Video Feeds / Audio ACC - using ffmpeg

* What  is the keyframe interval of that stream played
     - I'm not sure, not dealing with it.

* Which property  where you refering to the buffer length? Did your bufferLength property  returned value more than 4000?
          - the bufferLength seems to grow and it can reach 4000 and more basically until browser crashes or the page is refreshed.

I made a small fix which is inelegant checking for bufferLength>x and issuing a togglePause(), then resume() (on the client app)
which brings the stream back to normal buffer, but it is not an acceptable solution for us, as it creates a bad user experience.

"but when injecting feeds into a main stream and switching back  increases the probability of this happening. " - What do you mean by  this? Could you pls elaborate?"
     - the idea is simply, we create a playlist of items, some of them we play from begining to end and others we play segmented.
          the user exprience is seamless, they are viewing one long broadcast (in other words main item with commercials).

please let me know if i can provide any other details,

and thanks again

it seems like this could be a solution to our problem, yet NetStream.bufferTimeMax
is not supported in the CS4 IDE classes, nor is player 10.1 available

for the public yet, how can we make use of it then?

is it supported in CS5?
how can we get Flash Player 10.1?

thanks

"Could you pls tell  me the platform in which your clients are running?"
     - our clients are running mostly on windows playtforms (all kinds, and all kinds of browsers)

"What exactly do you observe with buffer when you issue togglePause()?"

     - toggePause() removes the buffer and resumes the video, but from a different location

     on the stream. it was just a check to see if the bufferLength is decreased, and it is,
     but we cannot really use this solution.

"Have you created the playlist at the server and play it over there so  that the client subscribes to that stream as live? or the playlist is  created at the client side?"

     - our playlist is created in actionscript on the server, the client simply subscribes to a stream name, and received what ever we broadcast.

i'll send you the other details via email

thanks