Stefan is a certified Flash Developer who has been involved with Flash Media
Server since its very early days. From his home office in the UK he has
handled a variety of projects, specializing in Flash Video and Rich Internet
Applications for clients that include CNET, USA Network and Unilever. Stefan
is the author of a series of Adobe Developer Center articles, has spoken at
several industry events and contributes a regular column on Flash Video to
Streaming Media Magazine. His site www.flashcomguru.com is one of the
largest online resources on Flash Video. 
The Flash Media Server Users Group is hosting an event titled “What’s New in FMS 4.5 with Steve Allison” on October 18th 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (GMT-7 Mountain Time US & Canada). This is an online event which you can attend at http://realeyes.adobeconnect.com/fmsug and will be hosted by Steve Allison, Senior Technical Evangelist for
It’s that time of the year again and NAB is in full swing. Unexpectedly there has been a flurry of news coming out of Las Vegas, so here is a quick summary of the topics surrounded Media Servers such as FMS and Wowza. First up is Wowza and their ‘Any Screen Done Right’ offering. This
Adobe have officially released Flash Player 10.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This release brings a range of performance improvements and feature enhancements. Worth pointing out is Stage Video, a full hardware accelerated video pipeline that improves video playback performance across platforms and browsers by separating the video playback from the DisplayList and offloading rendering
If you work with applications that utilise the webcam in Flash you may have noticed some recently introduced issues with some Apple iSight cameras on Mac OSX.
Join FMS Product Manager Kevin Towes for an online session titled ‘FMS 4 on Amazon Web Services’. This presentation is part of the FMS Online User Group and takes place on Tuesday, January 18th at 12:00 Eastern / 9:00am Pacific (GMT-8).
Today Adobe announced the availability of a new hosting service for FMS: Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Kevins Towes, FMS Product Manager, has full details on his blog.
A word of warning upfront: The following post is a rough summary of a week’s trial and error. Some of the points made may be correct, but there may also be better ways of doing things than what’s described here. Use at your own risk.
Some links that I found helpful but which admittedly also confused me greatly at times include The flash.globalization package in Flash Player as well as what I consider one of the best intros to the subject, an article by Charles Bihis on Devnet.
Adobe have just released a bunch of security updates for FMS. The updates appear to cover all versions of FMS and are highly recommended for installation. Usually – and I think this is the case here – these updaters are actually full installers of the server.
A few days ago my mini-display to DVI adapter that connects my external display to my iMac stopped working. Whilst waiting for a replacement I wondered if my iPad could act as a secondary display in the meantime. If you are like me then you will feel as if one of your arms has been
