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]]> en-us 2009-11-13T11:18:59-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000307.html Short story here (skip to the end to see the important moral of it all). Just two days back I had a phone call from a very friendly lady. She has a website and flash application that was in need of help. She mentioned she had a particular (well known) Flash developer working on it and needed a replacement because... General Info Graeme 2009-11-13T11:18:59-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000306.html 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... Flash Media Server 3 Graeme 2009-10-30T11:51:21-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000305.html 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... FMS Usergroup Graeme 2009-10-29T06:34:50-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000304.html 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,... Flash Media Server 3 Graeme 2009-10-29T06:32:19-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000303.html What: Adobe’s Flash Media Interactive Server and Large Scale Deployments When: September 10th at 9am Pacific Time Who: Presenter is going to be Nick Hippe who currently works at Adobe within their mobile and device division. Where: Call in details will me available here at this link on the day of the event http://groups.adobe.com/posts/81ef708026 If you have a large scale... FMS Usergroup Graeme 2009-09-04T06:49:46-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000302.html Just wanted to put up a quick post that the latest release of Flash and Flex Developer's Magazine is out. This magazine used to be a print magazine and has recently been put online. The latest release covers all kinds of things for Flash Media Server and Wowza. Definitely recommended reading. http://www.ffdmag.com/prt/view/about-the-mag/issue/1066.html... Industry News Graeme 2009-09-03T03:43:41-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000301.html I've recently got a question about the difference between the different methods of connecting to Flash Media Server (or Wowza or Red5 for that matter) and figured this is good material for a written article rather than a video tutorial. For the purpose of this article I may refer only to FMS but the same information can be applied to... Flash Media Server 3 Graeme 2009-08-14T07:27:23-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000300.html I've gotta rant a bit on this because I'm using it so much at the moment but CBC's video player on their website is busted.. I'm watching a show called "Dragons' Den" which is the idea that entrepreneurs get to stand up in front of 5 "dragons".. which are just rich people who have done well in the business world.... General Info Graeme 2009-07-24T07:42:01-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000299.html Just wanted to post a link to Vivek's blog entry on his recent discoveries on using the JScrCap screen capture utility. This has been something that ALL FMS devs have been chomping at the bit about, it's been a VERY frustrating process on how Adobe has kept so much of the really good functionality (and money making for that matter)... General Info Graeme 2009-07-24T06:06:46-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000298.html Just a quick update to a post I made a while back on project management online apps that we're actively searching these apps out and doing research. I'll definitely post back on a review of it all. Thanks again to all that let me know what they know about, your input has been invaluable in my search for the right... General Info Graeme 2009-07-18T08:13:06-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000297.html We've got a new free video tutorial up on FMSGuru.com called "Setting up a timer on the server side to start an event". In this tutorial we cover how to set up a timer on the server side to simulate playing a live event by creating a server side stream to play a video. This could be useful for all... Flash Media Server 3 Graeme 2009-07-18T06:22:18-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000296.html For the tutorials on fmsguru.com I've been using Techsmith's Camtasia application within parallels on Windows XP. It's worked fairly well but I've noticed sometimes that the end of the tutorial's audio isn't matched up with the video.. what the heck? and you can't edit that later in the studio making it a little difficult to fix in post without using... Reviews Graeme 2009-07-16T10:04:09-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000295.html First time ever encountering such a nasty client so I'm quite curious... what do you do when a client rips you off? It's not quite that easy of course, this particular client is in Florida and we're on the west coast of Canada. Not exactly close to each other.. in fact it's just about the farthest you can get on... General Info Graeme 2009-07-16T04:54:26-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000294.html This amused me so much that I just have to post it up. A movie trailer for office 2010... quite well done for something that doesn't exist.... Video Graeme 2009-07-10T11:16:56-08:00 http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/000293.html This is nice to see finally, some good material on deploying FMIS on a large scale. There's always been the issue out there that the edge-origin configuration of FMS is just a tad too expensive for most. Some have gone ahead and built their own framework for the failover and clustering of FMS and it's gone well. So it looks... Flash Media Server 3 Graeme 2009-07-09T04:56:22-08:00