Integrating Remoting and FlashCom (or FMS2) can be quite powerful, yet the integration is so poorly documented that it’s no wonder most people don’t even try to do it.
I was asked by a client to implement a chat log for a SharedObject-based Instant messenger-like app. At that point I was a bit sceptic about the […]
Here’s a bizarre little problem I ran into integrating Flash Media Server 2, Flash 8 and amfphp. mx.remoting.RecordSet has a getter/setter called ‘items’ which actually points to the _items member. Now if I forward a RecordSet from amfphp to FMS2 to the Flash player, I can read the RecordSet perfectly fine in FMS2, and I […]
Ah!, the simple joy of prototype hacking. I needed to have a recursive trace in FlashCom to look into recordsets I’m retrieving from amfphp. Picked this up from proto (submitted by user kk) and changed a couple of lines to get it working in FlashCom:
var oa; Object.prototype.toString = function () { if(typeof this […]
For video sharing applications, it’s good to be able to take a snapshot of the first frame to use as a thumbnail for previewing video. Now I was using FlashCom to record some video to be shared and needed to have a preview thumbnail. So I emailed “master of the FLV format” Burak and he […]
Most webcam drivers will only allow single access to a webcam, which is a bit of a pain when testing FlashCom apps by yourself locally. There’s a couple of programs out there that will help you out if you ever run into this issue as I did recently.
Virtual camera will create a virtual camera from […]