Registering with the Flash Media Server
By design, the Flash server doesn't accept requests in the familiar format of hostname, path, and filename. Instead, requests contain values for three variables: application name, instance name, and stream name.
In order for this information to be processed correctly, all Web subdirectories containing your FLV files must share the same registered parent directory on www.bu.edu.
Correct:
/registered-directory/broadband-flash/video1.flv
/registered-directory/dialup-flash/video2.flv
/registered-directory/dialup-flash/2007/video3.flv
Incorrect:
/registered-directory/video4.flv
In the examples above, video1.flv, video2.flv, and video3.flv are not all in the same subdirectory, but the Flash Media Server can serve them all because the subdirectories containing them each have the directory registered-directory as a "parent directory."
The files video4.flv, however, is stored directly in the registered directory and cannot be streamed using the given registration due to their incorrect organization.
Contact us to register the parent directory that will contain the subdirectories holding your FLV files.
BU Web Sites other than www.bu.edu
Although your FLV files must be on www.bu.edu, the Web pages that users visit to watch the videos can be anywhere on the BU Network. If you have BU Web pages not on www.bu.edu, people.bu.edu, courseinfo.bu.edu, or webct.bu.edu, contact us to request that we give your Web server permission to negotiate a stream with the Flash server.
Unique needs: ActionScript files on the Flash Media Server
Site adminstrators with unique Flash application needs can request that we consider adding other server-side ActionScript files to the Flash Media Server.
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