I recently put together an article for the Adobe Developer Center and it has finally gone live today. It's about making a live radio application using Flash Media Server and your collection of MP3 files. You'll be streaming MP3 files from Flash Media Server to listeners with some interesting control over them.
Here's a link to it if you're interested in learning what it's all about.
Well, I've just started to use Flex Builder and I've once again come across the one bug I hate the utmost in almost all of Adobe's apps, automatic language choosing.
I literally despise this stuff and really wish such a huge company would be able to get their very smart minds together and do something about it. After Effects has got to be the only app around that at least comes close and gives you an option to choose a language on starting the app. Actually, fireworks isn't too bad either.
Anyways, my current problem with Flex Builder 2 is that the error compilation errors are in Japanese where they should be in English. My question is that I have the english version installed, why would it show compilation errors in Japanese? Everything else is in english...
oohh ohh, pick me! pick me! I know!!
It's because that while Adobe developers want to make the installation process as simple as possible and only have to provide one version of a piece of software with all the languages installed, they at the same time would like to force the choice upon you when installing and using said software. I find this extremely inconvenient because I have the Japanese version of Windows installed. I can read and do understand the error messages but I'd rather English.
So after a quick search around, I found the fix on the Adobe forum and thought I'd post a link to it here too. Could be handy for others.
To make it easy though:
Go into the flexbuilder.ini file in the flex builder install directory and add:
-Duser.language=en
-Duser.country=US
Go into the jvm.config file in the SDK/bin directory in the install directory and add:
-Duser.country=US (anything but JP)
onto the end of the java.args line.
One day perhaps this won't be a problem.. I guess Adobe just needs more testers with multilanguage settings. *shrugs for the time being*
I should add that you'll only see your settings changes when you get rid of the errors in the project, and then re-run it with no errors then put back in your error-ing code to see it in english.
weird.
Well, this is pretty good news I would say. Adobe has finally put out a standalone application that will stream vp6 flash video to Flash Media Server for your viewers. Not only that, you can record the video at the same time you are streaming it, which is always handy.
The application is called Flash Media Encoder, very aptly named I think, and it's free right now and will always be free if you have a valid license installed with your Flash Media Server install.
The bonus of this is that you can finally send video up by VP6 instead of the sorenson codec that the flash player has. We'll probably never see VP6 support for live streams in the flash player so this is going to be very nice to have.
It's in beta but it still works for the purposes. Details are here.
Flash Media Server 2 has a new update out, version 2.0.4. Another release comes out the door! I bet you're wondering what it fixes? I hope it deals with a lot of issues because as far as we and our clients are concerned the last stable version was 2.0.1.
Here is the link to the release notes so you can see what was fixed. The biggest one was definitely the license issue.. good to see other stuff getting fixed.