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Flash Media Server 2 (FMS) does no longer include or install any sample files (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/fms2_sample_apps.zip). I think this is a good decision as it caused a lot of confusion with people being under the impression that the swf files needed to be on the same server as FMS itself. This is not the case, let [...]

Setting Up Flash Media Server To make this application to work, you need to configure File Access and Stream Access. File Access The File Object class allows access to a sandbox within your server file system. To protect against any misuse, Flash Media Server allows access to files within a sandbox specified for the virtual [...]

This article assumes that you are running Flash Media Server locally, but the application setup would be the same if you were using a remote server: Create a folder under the applications folder in Flash Media Server called VideoSource. Create a streams folder inside VideoSource. Create a _definst_ folder inside the streams folder. Place the [...]