[RESOLVED] AS3 Steam RTMP LIVE video WITHOUT FLVPlayback Component

[sufire]

First off, I apologize if any of this comes off snobby. I've spent the past 2 days scouring Google and dozens (easily over 100) websites trying to find an answer to something that people do every day! I am absolutely disgusted that this info is not available anywhere online.

I can play my live rtmp (fms) stream through the FLVPlayback component without any problems. I even figured out how to make my own player in AS2. But I still can not get a LIVE player in AS3. I keep getting "onMetaData", "Async" and "onBWDone" errors in varying combinations.

Can someone, please find it in their heart to provide me with the appropriate code? Every single tutorial online is either AS2 or is for flvplayback (nc.connect goes to null).

Here is my working AS2 code. I have a "linked video" thing from the library named "live_feed" on the stage.

//connect to the Flash Media Server
client_nc = new NetConnection();
client_nc.connect("rtmp://12.34.56.789/live/");

//bring in video/audio
in_ns = new NetStream(client_nc);
in_ns.play("livestream");

live_feed.attachVideo(in_ns);
live_feed.attachAudio(in_ns);

[sufire]

Here is my AS3 code which works, but Flash CS4 outputs this error.

Error #2044: Unhandled AsyncErrorEvent:. text=Error #2095: flash.net.NetConnection was unable to invoke callback onBWDone. error=ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property onBWDone not found on flash.net.NetConnection and there is no default value.
at Untitled_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()

var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect("rtmp://12.34.56.789/live/");

function netstat(stats:NetStatusEvent) {
	//trace(stats.info.code);
}

nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onNetStatus);

function onNetStatus(event:NetStatusEvent):void {
	if (event.info.code=="NetConnection.Connect.Success") {
		var ns:NetStream=new NetStream(nc);

		var vid:Video=new Video(320,240);
		this.addChild(vid);

		vid.attachNetStream(ns);

		ns.play("livestream");
		ns.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netstat);
		ns.client=this;
	}
}

[sufire]

Here is YET ANOTHER (AS3) attempt of mine, which works, but yet again outputs a (different) error. This one involves a "linked video" thing from the library named myVideo on the stage.

Error #2095: flash.net.NetStream was unable to invoke callback onMetaData.

var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onNetStatus);
nc.connect("rtmp://12.34.56.789/live/");


function onNetStatus(event:NetStatusEvent):void {
	if (event.info.code=="NetConnection.Connect.Success") {
		var ns:NetStream=new NetStream(nc);
		myVideo.attachNetStream(ns);
		ns.play("livestream");
		ns.addEventListener(AsyncErrorEvent.ASYNC_ERROR, asyncErrorHandler);
	}
}

function asyncErrorHandler(event:AsyncErrorEvent):void {
	trace(event.text);
}

nc.client=this;

[sufire]

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[florianvanthuyn]

try adding this, just before myVideo.attachNetStream(ns);

meta = new Object();
ns.client = meta;
meta.onMetaData = metaHandler; 

Don't forget to make the variable meta at the top of your code!

[sufire]

How do I make the variable? I've tried and I still can't get it to work. I have no idea what type of variable it is, so I tried different things from Google searches.

var meta:Object = new Object();

[sufire]

Instead of trying to fix this code, can anyone give me the entire neccessary code to play a live rtmp stream? Every single tutorial online is about how to play a flv file. There is not a single tutorial about how to connect to FMS and play the stream, without errors.. at least that I could find in over 100 different websites and attempts.

I'd like to plug in the 2 parts of the rtmp url and have it play, without any errors whatsoever. Then, I will focus on adding custom play/stop/volume/fullscreen buttons.

[sufire]

I found a tutorial on fmsguru.com and came up with this code. It works exactly the same as in the tutorial and works fine, except the following error. It seems that this error only appears when previewing the file in Flash CS4 (the authoring program). Regardless, it is very annoying, so if anyone knows how to get rid of the error, please share.

Error #2044: Unhandled AsyncErrorEvent:. text=Error #2095: flash.net.NetConnection was unable to invoke callback onBWDone. error=ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property onBWDone not found on flash.net.NetConnection and there is no default value.
at Untitled_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()

var nc:NetConnection;
var ns:NetStream;
var liveVideo:Video;

nc = new NetConnection();

nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onConnectionStatus);

function onConnectionStatus(e:NetStatusEvent):void {
	if (e.info.code=="NetConnection.Connect.Success") {
		getTheStream();
	}
}

function getTheStream():void {
	ns=new NetStream(nc);

	ns.client=this;
	liveVideo.attachNetStream(ns);

	ns.play("livestream");
}

function onMetaData(info:Object):void {
	//do nothing
}

nc.connect("rtmp://12.34.56.789/live");

[florianvanthuyn]

Well, it appears the onBWDone is not in the flash.net.NetConnection package (as the error says), and I've found this in a guys code:

NetConnection.prototype.onBWDone = function(p_bw) {
trace("onBWDone: "+p_bw);
}; 

link

Is a dirty way of doing this, since using the prototype property kind of messes with the NetConnection class, but I think it's worth a try

[Stephanee]

I can play my live rtmp (fms) stream through the FLVPlayback component without any problems. I even figured out how to make my own player in AS2. But I still can not get a LIVE player in AS3. I keep getting "onMetaData", "Async" and "onBWDone" errors in varying combinations.

Can someone, please find it in their heart to provide me with the appropriate code? Every single tutorial online is either AS2 or is for flvplayback (nc.connect goes to null).

I think this tutorial will be useful, which shows how to use FLVPlayback component to make live RTMP stream receiver - http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ti...1619/index.php

[florianvanthuyn]

I think this tutorial will be useful, which shows how to use FLVPlayback component to make live RTMP stream receiver - http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ti...1619/index.php

It appears sufire doesn't want to use a FLVPlayback component, just check the titel of the thread

[sufire]

Thanks Florian! Works great! I am a little nervous about using that code, simply because I don't like to use code unless I understand exactly what it does, but ultimately it makes that annoying error go away so I'm happy.

It does return "onBWDone: undefined" though, so I commented out the trace.

I think I read somewhere that onBWDone is not part of ActionScript 3.0, but is part of Flash Media Server. I believe the server (by default, can be disabled) calls this function. I find it odd that Adobe would release the server with the code without updating AS3 to be able to handle it.

[florianvanthuyn]

Good thing this error got fixed though

Setting a prototype function is as writing classes and adding functions to a class, with the only difference that you're adding to a class that is already written.
So no major changing or messing with the code occurs, but it's just not a very clean method..

[bigbox]

I found a tutorial on fmsguru.com and came up with this code. It works exactly the same as in the tutorial and works fine, except the following error. It seems that this error only appears when previewing the file in Flash CS4 (the authoring program). Regardless, it is very annoying, so if anyone knows how to get rid of the error, please share.

Error #2044: Unhandled AsyncErrorEvent:. text=Error #2095: flash.net.NetConnection was unable to invoke callback onBWDone. error=ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property onBWDone not found on flash.net.NetConnection and there is no default value.
at Untitled_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()

var nc:NetConnection;
var ns:NetStream;
var liveVideo:Video;

nc = new NetConnection();

nc.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onConnectionStatus);

function onConnectionStatus(e:NetStatusEvent):void {
	if (e.info.code=="NetConnection.Connect.Success") {
		getTheStream();
	}
}

function getTheStream():void {
	ns=new NetStream(nc);

	ns.client=this;
	liveVideo.attachNetStream(ns);

	ns.play("livestream");
}

function onMetaData(info:Object):void {
	//do nothing
}

nc.connect("rtmp://12.34.56.789/live");

How can i add a pause and play button to this script?

[TerryD]

After using the above script with the same FME and FMS set-up I to get the same messages. However it does play but when I test the control it stops playing after about 3 min. I published into an swf and it looks great but just stops after appx 3 min. Is there a setting somewhere I missed or maybe the error caused the trigger. Any Ideas? Thanks!