http://www.fmsguru.com This is the RSS feed for the latest news on FMSGuru.com en 2012-05-20T08:29:02+0900
The main issue at the moment in that area is that it's VERY busy in the consulting and development world. There's a very good reason I put out a call for developers a while back there and both positions have been filled and I'm thinking of opening a third soon. Being that as it is, it's hard to take time out to put some tutorials together as it takes about 3 times as long as the actual tutorial is to create it.

That said, I definitely want to get more tutorials up fast. I've got a whole bunch of ideas and concepts to get out there that can be useful for all sorts of situations and should assist all learners here in their development process. Anyways, I'll post up again soon with some content and further news as to what is happening here. I just wanted to get something up to make sure that everybody knows I'm still here and keen to get on with showing some new stuff. Again, if you have any specific requests, then just hit me up on the forum in the request tutorial section and I'll do my best to accommodate!

Thanks for visiting!
Graeme]]> 2012-02-19T12:00:00+0900
First up, thank you everybody for the visits, compliments, comments and sometimes work that you have brought when coming to check out what we have here. Product sales have improved year after year (so have the products I think) and there are tons of requests for mods and new products altogether. I can tell you that we are working as hard as we can in that area and more. Every little bit and piece that improves this small niche community is really important, so once again, thank you very much.

2011 saw a total of 34 new free video tutorials. That's pretty good at 2.8 per month! Just under one per week essentially.. I plan on improving on that this year for sure. There is so much information to be put out as both Flash Media Server and Wowza Media Server are growing all the time and new techniques get figured out on almost a daily basis.

Just in case you missed the last two tutorials of the year, I managed to get one out on both servers:

Overriding the play() method server side to limit play time with Wowza

Developing server side code on FMS to check if a live stream is available

2011 brought a brand new website too. We're going into the 4th year for FMSGuru.com and it was about time a facelift happened. In conjunction we also released a new product, STi Video Recorder for Wowza Media Server HD Edition v3 , a very cool video recording application that works on Wowza. With those out of the way we can definitely concentrate on more free video tutorials, articles and of course product updates and new products altogether. We have a lot of ideas and a lot of requests coming in on almost a daily basis. We listen to them all so please don't hesitate to ask if we have done or can do something. We probably have done it or are going to!

2012 is going to bring all kinds of new tutorials, articles, product updates and products. I fully expect the community to grow as the demand for this particular technology continues to grow out of control, there has never been a better time to be involved in live media/communication and streaming video. It's amazing.

So stay tuned for some more updates soon!
Thanks
Graeme]]> 2012-01-02T12:00:00+0900
We're also keen to get somebody who can take on some server duties with an involvement also in Amazon's EC2 system and setting up AMI's with load balancing etc. Again, a fast learner and self driven individual will get bonus points around here because that's what we are too.]]> 2011-12-12T12:00:00+0900 Installation and the Basics of Flash Media Server 4.5

In this tutorial we talk about the basics and installation of Flash Media Server 4.5 on Windows. The machine the software is installed on already has a previous version of FMS on it so the upgrade path and things to think about are talked about a bit as well. If you have no clue of what FMS4.5 is then this will help and if you have any doubts on how easy or hard it is to install then watch this tutorial and see how easy it is. There are a few items to think about if you are upgrading, but it's straightforward for the most part.

How to get FMS and WMS to run at the same time on one machine

In this tutorial we cover the details on how to get both Flash Media Server and Wowza Media Server to run at the same time on one machine. This can be very handy for development machines when you don't want to run two computers to test between both services. While it's best to use two different IP numbers to accomplish this task, it's quite possible to just set the ports differently which causes one or the other to run on a different port than the other. Thanks for visiting! Graeme]]> 2011-11-24T12:00:00+0900
With that, we've also got a brand new product launch at the same time, STi Video Recorder for Wowza Media Server HD Edition v3. This is our latest version of our Video/Audio recording application that runs right in the browser through the Flash Player. You have the option to choose to record between three different sizes, review your recording and even save it if you want in a list to view later. It's like a mini video content management system of all your recorded videos. Once recorded the application provides a simple way to link to the page where the bonus video player (included in the package if you want to use it) where the video can be played back. There is also an option to embed the player in a web page or blog.

We have promo pricing going on until the end of the year and after that will see a price raise to properly reflect the cost of this very cool application. So don't delay! Pick it up now as all updates are free until v4.]]> 2011-11-13T12:00:00+0900
Anyways, here are those tutorials links just in case you haven't seen them on the tutorials page yet:

Tutorial #62: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 7

Tutorial #63: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 8

Tutorial #64: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 9

Tutorial #65: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 10

Tutorial #66: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 11

Tutorial #67: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 12

Tutorial #68: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 13]]> 2011-11-11T12:00:00+0900 Back to the Basics with Flash is a product we released a while ago and I thought that it might be a nice gesture to release it into our free tutorials list. There are another 7 to go and I'll get on with releasing those this week along with new material on both Flash Media Server and Wowza Media server. Stay tuned! It's going to get interesting.

Tutorial #56: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 1

Tutorial #57: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 2

Tutorial #58: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 3

Tutorial #59: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 4

Tutorial #60: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 5

Tutorial #61: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 6]]> 2011-11-07T12:00:00+0900 one of our products actually that we released a while ago and I thought that it might be a nice gesture to release it into our free tutorials list. There are another 10 to go and I'll get on with releasing those next week along with new material on both Flash Media Server and Wowza Media server. Stay tuned! It's going to get interesting.

Tutorial #56: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 1

Tutorial #57: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 2

Tutorial #58: Flash Development - Back to the Basics Part 3]]> 2011-11-04T12:00:00+0900


Anyways, it's coming along really well, there are still a few things to work out and I'm also waiting on some design for a brand new product too. More on that soon! We'll be breaking this redesign out with a bunch of new tutorials and articles, it should be a bit of information overload if all goes well. Stay tuned!

As always, thanks for visiting
Graeme]]> 2011-11-01T12:00:00+0900


Lots of items will be coming with this update and I can't wait to show everybody. I realize content update has been a bit slow but with that it's important to note that latest tutorial on Setting Up Flash Builder 4.5 for Flash 11 and AIR 3 Apps is important. One of our products definitely takes advantage of that latest software update and future tutorials will too. Anyways, stay tuned for more updates on the update.

Thanks
Graeme]]> 2011-10-28T12:00:00+0900 Wowza's site.

With this release comes a huge amount of updates and performance gains. The addons alone are well worth the upgrade with each one having a license required to add on to the original software. There is also a trial version for 30 days that allows you to use the software with everything and a developer version that is free to use for 180 days.

With all that I have to say that we've got a huge update coming to FMSGuru soon. I've been working hard on the backend and making the site work better and faster. Searches should be more precise and even this news piece has been put in place with the new system. All built in Flex which means I've got lots of tutorials material to show. We also have Adobe's FMS 4.5 just out and now Wowza 3, exciting stuff and as soon as the facelift happens here you're going to see so much new material that you won't know what to do with it!

Stay Tuned!
Graeme]]> 2011-10-11T12:00:00+0900
Streaming videos to iOS devices from Flash Media Server 4.5

Where's a great place to start learning about Flash Media Server development?

Getting the user's GEO Location with Wowza Media Server

There are both more tutorials and articles on the way. On the functionality side, we have improved the ability to find tutorials that you might want to check out based on what you are watching at the time. On each tutorial page we have now listed some related tutorials that may answer your questions on your current topic. If you scroll down past the video then you'll see the list.

We have many more updates to the site coming including a complete redesign which I know I'm very excited about. So stay tuned!

As always, thanks for visiting!
Graeme ]]> 2011-09-20T12:00:00+0900
Tutorial #53: Flash Media Server Security : Using the client Agent and Referrer to help protect your server

Tutorial #54: Flash Media Server Security : Taking advantage of the Application.xml file settings to help protect your server

With that, I do plan on getting more tutorials in the future about security with FMS, I think it's important to also cover security with Wowza Media Server. Of course I have a whole list of ideas for tutorials that I just have to find the time to get on with.. not just dry security of course.

Anyways, thanks for visiting as always and stay tuned for more updates shortly!
Graeme ]]> 2011-08-31T12:00:00+0900
Tutorial #50: Flash Media Server Security : Using writeAccess to help protect your server

Tutorial #51: Flash Media Server Security : Using server side client permissions to help protect your server

Tutorial #52: Flash Media Server Security : Using the client IP to help protect your server

We've also got updates on our latest product: STi Chat for Wowza | v4

Last but not least there is a new FMS Usergroup meeting coming up on August 24th, check that out here.

We've got more coming up soon, so stay tuned! ]]> 2011-08-18T12:00:00+0900
With that I'm proud to announce a mutually advantageous partnership with Wowza Media Systems to assist in getting some of their teaching materials updated in a new format. More on that soon!

For now though, please stay tuned, I do plan to put up a few shorter tutorials working with Flash Builder/Flex and Wowza. I put up a quick poll on whether or not anybody cared if we did more Wowza or FMS stuff here but no responses just yet. Check that out here if you're interested in letting me know. It does help me decide on content to put up, otherwise I just put up things that I feel like doing :) ]]> 2011-08-05T12:00:00+0900 Working with Shared Objects with Wowza and Flex

Also with that, we have a new product just launched: STi Chat for Wowza Media Server with Flex | Foundation Edition v4.

We've improved on our last version greatly by building it in Flex for one and also changing up and improving other features. Make sure to check that out!

More to follow this week, the pace should be picking back up again so stay tuned!

Thanks for visiting!
Graeme ]]> 2011-06-06T12:00:00+0900