Programming Flash Communication Server / Brian Lesser [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lesser, Brian.

Contributor:

Lesser, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flash (Computer file).

Mobile communication systems.

Multimedia communications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (856 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

With the advent of Flash Communication Server MX (FCS), Macromedia believes that it's on the edge of a breakthrough in how people think about the Internet. FCS has been designed to provide web developers with the means to add polished interactive audio and video features to their sites, the sort of features that users have come to expect. Naturally, the process of efficiently integrating rich media into applications, web sites, and web content is a complex one, to say the least. That's where Programming Flash Communication Server factors in. As the foremost reference on

Contents:

Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; What Does FlashCom Offer?; What's in This Book?; How to Use This Book; Part I: FlashCom Foundation; Part II: Audio, Video, and Data Streams; Part III: Remote Connectivity and Communication; Part IV: Design and Deployment; Audience; ActionScript 1.0 Versus ActionScript 2.0; Server-Side ActionScript; The flash-communications.net Site; Director, Breeze, and Other Options; Flash Video Options; Embedded Video; Progressive Download; Streaming Video with FlashCom; Licensing and Hosting Options; Conventions Used in This Book; Voice; Using Code Examples

Getting the Code Examples WorkingSafari Enabled; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Part I; Introducing the Flash Communication Server; Clients and Servers; Creating an Application; Real-Time Messaging Protocol; FlashCom Versus Traditional Media Servers; The Communication Classes; Connecting to the Server; Streaming Audio, Video, and ActionScript Data; Camera, Microphone, and Video; Sharing Data in Real Time; Client and Application Objects; Remote Methods; Communicating with Application Servers, Databases, and Directory Servers; Firewalls and Security; Getting Started

Admin Service, Administration Console, and App InspectorHello Video!; Setting Up helloVideo on the Server; Building the helloVideo Client in Flash; Building the user interface; Setting up the NetConnection and showing its status; Making the connection; Showing remote users; Hello Video! Summary; Conclusion; Communication Components; Overview of Communication Components; Server-Side Requirements; Common Methods of the Communication Components; init( ); connect( ); close( ); onUnload( ); setUsername( ); Summary of Communication Components; AudioConference; Nested Flash UI components

Component process overviewAVPresence; Client-side component parameters; Component process overview; Chat; Nested Flash UI components; Component process overview; Configurable server-side attributes; ConnectionLight; Client-side component parameters; How the component works; Enabling ConnectionLight without SimpleConnect; Cursor; How the component works; PeopleList; Nested Flash UI components; Component process overview; PresentationSWF; Nested Flash UI components; Client-side component parameters; Component process overview; PresentationText; Nested Flash UI Components

Client-side component parametersHow the component works; RoomList; Nested Flash UI components; Client-side component parameters; Component process overview; SetBandwidth; Nested Flash UI components; Client-side component parameters; Component process overview; SimpleConnect; Nested Flash UI components; Client-side component parameters; How the component works; UserColor; Nested Flash UI components; How the component works; VideoConference; Nested Flash UI components; Client-side component parameters; Component process overview; VideoPlayback; Nested Flash UI components

Client-side component parameters

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 5, 2013).

ISBN:

9780596517168

0596517165

OCLC:

772462215