Dear friends, I want to broadcast video (live) using "Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder 3". I want to test it first in my local server (if possible). So I already setup this software. I use XAMPP as my web server. But I can't setup the output location (Stream to Flash Media Server) FMS url. That may be something like this - rtmp://localhost/live PLEASE tell me how can I broadcast my video or any other way to live broadcast. Thanks in advance.
You need a rtmp server installed to broadcast and publish rtmp streams. Get the Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server - Developer Edition (limited to 10 simultaneous connections) from Adobe or a trial downloads site. You could also try with Wowza Media Server. If you want others to access your streams, you will need the rtmp server installed on a public location (domain or ip). You can publish the stream (video) on a website with something like JW Player. Also, we develop a 100% web based live streaming solution that can be downloaded from our site - pm if you need more details about that.
localhost is for connecting to FMS on your own machine (i.e., testing). You will want to modify the FMS properties file to place your server ip address when you get ready to stream live. In addition, due to the way FMS 3 sets up it's default directories you will want to put your app in a subdirectory called _definst_ ***don't aks me WHY*** For instance, I broadcast a live video chat demo on request using my own FMS server and when I load my .asc file to the app folder I use a directory called /chat/_definst_/ and all is well. _definst_ stands for default instance, BTW. FMS 3 puts that little virtual directory at the end of it's rtmp calls (unless you configure otherwise after installation). Then, I access it via RTMP://76.218.*.*/chat/ and it works fine. This is for FMS on a windows server 2008, rc2.