Prerequisites:

• working AVConference installation
• acces to the FMIS server where the avconference FMIS application (folder) is set up

Flash Media Live Encoder is a Windows/Mac desktop application that can grab the video feed from your webcam and the audio feed from your microphone and push them into the Flash Media Interactive Server from here they can be grabbed and watched/heared by other people.

The video streamed using FMLE can be encoded with the newer VP6 and H264 codecs.

The audio streamed using FMLE can be encoded with the AAC and Mp3 codecs.

These codecs gives you rougly %30-40 better quality for the same bandwidth compared to the video streamed using the a Flash app running in the browser (AVConference).

You can download FMLE from here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/flashmediaencoder/ .

1) Download it , install it and run it. You should get something similar to the image below:

2) In the input box labeled FMS URL: type in the rtmpurl you used in avc_settings.php during the avconference installation.
(If you dont remember it type in a browser window: http://www.yourwebsite.com/avchat installation folder/avc_settings.php and look for the value of the connectionstring variable).

3) In the input box labeled Stream: type: incomingStream.

Change the video and audio settings if you want to and then press the big green [Start] button.

If everything is set up properly the FMLE will connect to the avconference application on your FMIS server and start sending video and audio data to it.

If you login in to AVConference now you will see in the list a user named: HQ Live Video Stream. This is actually the FMLE desktop application connected to the avconference application on the FMIS server. Click on that user and then on [View Camera]. The video feed sent by the FMLE to the FMIS should show up.

To change the username of the FMLE instance connected to the FMIS you need to edit the settings.asc file (it can be found in the avconference folder on your FMS sevrer) and change the value of the variable: application.fmeusername. Save the file upload it back to the FMS server and restrat the FMS server or reload the application using the FMIS Management Console. This will ensure the username change is loaded into the FMIS memory.

You can only have one FMLE instance sending video to an AVConference application instance on your FMIS server.