With a few moments of time on my hands again I've put up one more new free video tutorial this week on FMSGuru.com called "The basics of using the DVR functionality in Flash Media Server 3.5". It's a long one clocking in at a huge 43 minutes... where does the time go? This makes for a grand total of 30 tutorials.. my goodness.
In this tutorial we cover the basics of making a DVR video player for Flash and Flash Media Server. This application is built in AS3 and has two parts, the publisher and the player. The publisher sends out the live video and the player plays that video with the ability to scrub back in time to catch the beginning or middle and of course scrub right back to the live point. Just like DVR on your TV. There is a small amount of server side code but it isn't required for this application.
Just wanted to post up quickly that there is an FMS Usergroup meeting tomorrow at 9am PST. Kevin Towes is heading this up so it should be interesting! Details are here:
http://groups.adobe.com/posts/e06590f7c3
We've got another new free video tutorial up on FMSGuru.com called "Switching between two live streams on the client side ". This tutorial covers the basics of switching between two different live streams on the client side. Essentially it allows you to switch to one live stream from another in the case that you want to watch one or another, like changing channels on your TV. Other little tidbits of information for server side coding, net streams and live video are discussed throughout the tutorial as we go along.
On a side note I came across a blog entry on Jay Charles' site covering some gotchas for developing in AS3 and FMS which I think is rather useful, worth posting here for those that are getting into AS3 and FMS.