Flash Media Server

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Table of contents

1 Flash Media Server

2 Preperation

2.1 Library Packages
2.2 Kernel Version
2.3 Linking Libraries

3 Installing

3.1 Admin

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Flash Media Server

A few of our projects use a Flash Media Server to stream video and perform other useful tasks. This page explains how to install the FMS on Debian's Stable branch.

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Preperation

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Library Packages

On debian you'll need some libs. Install them with:

 apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libnspr4

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Kernel Version

You'll also need a 2.6 kernel, not the (currently) default 2.4 kernel. Upgrade the kernel with something like this (obviously, if you're not using a 686 processor you'll need a different image):

 apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686

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Linking Libraries

Apparently we need to link the libs so that it can find them under the names it's looking for:

 cd /usr/lib
 ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.7 libcrypto.so.4
 ln -s libssl.so.0.9.7 libssl.so.4

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Installing

Now unzip the .tar.gz and run the install program, passing it a parameter to make it ignore the fact we're not on Red-Hat

 ./installFMS -platformWarnOnly

Here are the answers to the install questions that I used:

 ----------- Install Action Summary -----------
 Installation directory         = /usr/local/macromedia/fms
 FM Server Port                 = 1935
 FM Admin Server Port           = 1111
 Administrative username        = (suppressed)
 Administrative password        = (suppressed)
 FMS owner                      = www-data
 FMS service user               = www-data
 FMS service user group         = www-data
 FMS run as daemon              = Yes
 Start FMS                      = Yes

Update runlevel init scripts:

update-rc.d fms defaults

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Admin

You will have created an admin user when you installed. To access the admin console you need to run a flash-app in a browser somewhere. Which flash app? Ahha, you may well ask. It's in fms2_console.html and fms2_console.swf but you'll need to copy theses 2 files from the install dir to a webroot somewhere to access it.

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