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So I got a wild hair today and decided to polish up an old test and post it here. Essentially you can put in your application url and set the connection rate speed and connection cap.

You'll get a simple count of success and failures. As it's running or after it's done you can add more connections to use via the add button.

I had been searching around for days for a solution to a problem many encounter. According to many blogs online the computeSpectrum method of the SoundMixer class only works with a vod stream from Flash Media Server, Wowza Media Server, or Red5. On a few of these blogs folkes even went as far as to try to code custom java classes to inject that data into the stream flowing to the flash player.

I didn't find this myself.. but was sent on a list I'm on.. I think it's pretty funny to those geeky enough to understand all of it's idiosyncrasies.

What's funny about it is that I think some people actually have followed this.. and then I get asked to maintain it. :)

http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
check it out.

I was asked by ffdmag to do a write up of the Wowza Media Server for their Sept/Oct issue of their online magazine. This specific issue highlights Flash Media Servers. Anyone interested in a good read of the Adobe Flash Media Server as well as a few articles on the Wowza Media Server, should check it out.

It's a free download and hopefully could clear some cobwebs if you're comparing Flash Media Server (FMS) to Wowza Media Server (WMS)

I came across this link posted by an acquaintance on twitter. It is a video of a presentation done by Seth Godin. He articulates in such a fresh, fun way, how to think differently in a competitive environment where everyone is thinking the same.

It really makes you want to take a step back and look at what you're doing and how you can and should change the way you do business.

It is definitely worth the watch.

I love this video.. it articulates in such a clever way that makes it comically clear how some clients think.. enjoy!

Screensharing with the Flash Media Server (FMS) has been reserved for use by Adobe for some time. They have made the business decision that they want to keep it close to the vest. This has all become increasingly annoying over the years and thankfully some great developers have stepped up to offer this functionality to the masses.

Ok.. so the title infers that Wowza has not yet arrived there.. but they have indeed.

I have recently been working on a project to extend a current media server offing. We looked into 3 main offerings, Flash Media Server, Wowza Media Server, and Red5 Media Server. As you may well assume we settled on Wowza.

We have many reasons for choosing Wowza from price to stability to innovations coming out of that talented group. But one item stands out in my eyes as a make or break for a product, that being support.

Some time after I wrote the origional article about Flex 3 SDK and Eclipse working together I came across a build process that I prefer to the one I wrote about with using ant for compiling. I will quickly run through how I build a project using this new method. I will be borrowing code from my last article seeing as it is closely the same with a few differences for building the project.

Yesterday I was determined to get lighttpd configured for python. When I did a search I got results that talked about hooking it through fastcgi and having a script start up the python process on a certain port etc...

I ended up looking around for hours and could not get it to work.

I finally consulted a well configured server for a client and discovered how they do it.. and if I had known ahead of time.. I could have had it done in about 10 seconds.

I thought I'd share so others could avoid the endless searching which brought me frustration.