Got FMS2 Talking to Jabber

It took me a while, but I finally got Flash Media Server 2 talking to Jabber.
It still a very unintelligent piece of code that just sends a message to my jabberaccount saying that My FMS-App just started.
But this could be the start of a notification / control tool.

Crossplatform Director sqlite and flash don’t work well together

In fact the problem lies with director 2004 not being able to handle utf8.
I had to create 2 sqlite databases. MacRoman encoded for mac and iso-8859-1 for windows.
Fortunately it had a PHP-backend for filling the database, so converting was a piece of cake.
But still…….

Flash Media Server on FC4

While installing Flash Media Server 2 on Fedora Core 4 with the -platformWarnOnly option didn’t produce any errors,
it refused to actually run. So I statted a topic on the Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash Media Server forum.
The first reply solved my Problem, thnx MIBTwo
FMS2 needs libssl.so.4 and libcrypto.so.4
Both not present on FC4. Linking the current versions of the two libraries solves the problem.

So if you want to install Flash Media Server 2 on Fedora Core 4, here’s what you do:

1. get the fms2 package from Adobe [Macromedia]
2. unpack
3. move into the unpacked directory (FMS_2_0_r1145_linux)
4. install using ./installFMS -platformWarnOnly
5. fill in details , say no to’ run FMS after install’
6. After installation change dir to /lib
7. Make symbolic link ln -s libssl.so.0.9.7f libssl.so.4
8. Make another symbolic link ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.7f libcrypto.so.4
9. Start FMS service fms start
10. You’re Laughing

Happy streaming