User guide

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Getting started
Last updated 8/28/2014
You can leave Make Unique unchecked.
7 Click Generate. The Multicast Configurator generates the following:
• A name for the live stream. To publish a stream, you’ll click Copy and paste this value into the Flash Media Live
Encoder Stream field.
• An F4M file to use with the client multicast player. To view the F4M file, click View Manifest File.
8 Click Save Manifest File and do the following:
a Save the manifest.f4m file to your local computer.
b Connect to the instance. Follow the steps in Connect to an instance and copy files from a Windows computeror
Connect to an instance and copy files from a Linux/UNIX computer.
c Copy the manifest.f4m file from your local computer to the following location:
/mnt/webroot/multicast/multicastplayer/
Using WinSCP to copy the manifest.f4m file to the instance
Publish a stream from Flash Media Live Encoder
1 Launch Flash Media Live Encoder 3.1 or later and do the following:
2 From the Preset menu, select a single stream preset. The multicast solution does not support multi-bitrate (also
called “adaptive” and “dynamic”) streaming.
3 For AMS URL, enter the URL of the multicast service:
rtmp://public-dns/multicast
Note: Flash Media Live Encoder connects to Adobe Media Server over the RTMP protocol, not over the RTMFP
protocol.
4 Return to the Multicast Configurator and click Copy next to the Publisher Stream Name.
5 In Flash Media Live Encoder, paste the Publisher Stream Name into the Stream text box.
6 Click Start to connect to the multicast service and start streaming.