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Tom Green

Tom Green

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Created:
2 June 2008
Modified:
12 January 2009
User Level:
Beginner
Products:
Flash Media Server
Flash

Beginner's guide to using ActionScript 3.0 with Flash Media Server 3.5

This article is the third in my series of beginning-level Flash Media Server 3.5 tutorials. This particular tutorial shows you how to use ActionScript 3.0 to stream an H.264 video from the vod folder, and then stream that same video from an application.

Here are all the articles in the series:

Requirements

To follow along with this article, you'll need the following software and files:

Flash Media Development Server 3.5

Flash CS4 Professional

Sample files:

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About the author

Tom Green is a professor of interactive multimedia at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of several best-selling books in the area of Flash and Flash technologies. His latest book is Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers, coauthored with David Stiller, and he updated Foundation Flash CS3 Video with Adam Thomas. Tom has completed DVD videos for Lynda.com and Adobe Systems, and is a partner at Community MX and a regular contributor to Digital-Web.com and Layersmagazine.com. He is also an active member of the Adobe Community Experts Group, speaking at conferences and seminars around the world and contributing regularly to the Adobe Developer Connection in the areas of Flash authoring and video technologies.