general flash media server questions 1

[theotrain]

i think im going to need FMS or Wowza for a site. i want to make sure i understand a few things.

you can deliver video in flash without having FMS. i assume the primary advantage of using FMS (to deliver a video) that the FMS video can be skipped to any point on the playhead and start streaming from there, whereas a regular video placed into flash would have to load from start to finish in order? is that right?

i asked an FMS hosting service if they have coldfusion and they said no... they ONLY host flash movies. is that how it usually works? if you have a website that uses say coldfusion and mySql, and it also has to serve flash, how do you organize the site to work with the FMS host?

also i would like to create something that records sound from the users mic and records it as a file to the server. im pretty sure FMS can do this (correct me if wrong) but can wowza also handle that? their site says it can handle "remote recording"

thanks!

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Yes you can skip to any point with streaming. You can't skip to a point which is not yet loaded with progressive download.

There are other differences though. See:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_guide_02.html

Typically you will use streaming server for just video delivery. Your SWF will be elsewhere, together with a database etc.

FMS can record video and audio. So can Red5, Wowza

http://www.wowzamedia.com/comparison.html

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[theotrain]

ok i get it. thanks!