AVChat 2 and AVConference are compatible with both FMS 2 & 3 and Red5 .
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Chinese languagePushing video into AVConference with Flash Media Encoder
Prerequisites:
- working AVConference installation
- acces to the FMS server where the avconference FMS application (folder) is set up
Flash Media Encoder is a Windows only desktop application that can grab the video feed from your webcam and the audio feed from your microphone and push them into the Flash Media Server from here they can be grabbed and watched/heared by other people.
The video sent by FME to the FMS is encoded with the newer VP6 codec from On2 introduced in Flash 8. This codec gives you rougly %30 better video quality for the same bandwidth compared to the video pushed into FMS from the Flash Player plugin running inside the browser. The video sent by the FP plugin is encoded with the older Sorenson codec.
You can download FME from here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/flashmediaencoder/ .
Download it , install it and run it. You should get something similar to the image below:
In the input box labeled FMS URL: type in the rtmpurl you used in avc_settings.php during the avconference installation (If you dont remember it type in a browser window: http://www.yourwebsite.com/avchat installation folder/avc_settings.php and look for the value of the connectionstring variable).
In the input box labeled Stream: type: incomingStream .
Change the video and audio settings if you want to and then press the big green [Start] button.
If everything is set up properly the FME will connect to the avconference application on your FMS server and start sending video and audio data to it.
If you login in to AVConference now you will see in the list a user named: HQ Live Video Stream. This is actually the FME desktop application connected to the avconference application on the FMS server. Click on that user and click [View Camera]. The video feed sent by the FME to the FMS should show up.
To change the username of the FME instance connected to the FMS you need to edit the settings.asc file (it can be found in the avconference folder on your FMS sevrer) and change the value of the variable: application.fmeusername. Save the file upload it back to the FMS server and restrat the FMS server or reload the application using the FMS Management Console. This will ensure the username change is loaded into the FMS memory.
You can only have one FME instance sending video to an AVConference application instance on your FMS server