User guide

Using Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services

Last updated 8/28/2014

For more information about the pre-built applications, see Streaming services in the Adobe Media Server Developer’s

Guide.

Create an application

To create an new application, create a directory in the /mnt/applications directory. For example, to create an application

called myapplication, create the following directory:

/mnt/applications/myapplication

Working with applications on Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services is no different than with other editions

of Adobe Media Server. For complete documentation, see

Adobe Media Server Developer's Guide.

Configure an application

All applications use the default configuration files located in the following directory:

/opt/adobe/ams/conf

To configure a single application, copy an Application.xml file to the applications’s directory. For example, to configure

myapplication, copy the Application.xml file to the following location:

/mnt/applications/myapplication/Application.xml

You can place an Application.xml file in an application’s folder. Values set in the application-level Application.xml file

override the values in the vhost-level Application.xml file. The vhost-level Application.xml file configures all

applications in a vhost (virtual host). By default, an instance has one virtual host. The vhost-level file is located here:

/opt/adobe/ams/conf/_defaultRoot_/_defaultVHost_/Application.xml

To see an example of configuring a single application, look at the vod and live applications included with Adobe Media

Server. Navigate to /mnt/applications/vod and /mnt/applications/live. Each folder contains an Application.xml file. The

values in these files override the values in the vhost-level file.To prevent settings in the vhost-level Application.xml

settings from being overridden by the application-level Application.xml file, add an override attribute to a tag and set

it to "no", as in the following:

<LoadOnStartup override="no">false</LoadOnStartup>

When override="no" for an element in a vhost-level Applcation.xml file, you cannot override that element, or any

elements contained within that element, in an application-level Application.xml file.

Connect to an application

To connect to the application, use the ActionScript 3.0 NetConnection class:

netconnection.connect(protocol://public-dns/myapplication)

The value of protocol can be any protocol supported by Adobe Media Server. For a complete list, see the Adobe Media

Server Technical Overview.

The value of public-dns is the public DNS entry of the instance. To find this value, select the instance in the AWS

Management Console and look in the details pane.

The value of myapplication is the name of the folder you created in the /mnt/applications directory.

For more information about connecting to an application and streaming media, see Developing streaming media

applications in Adobe Media Server Developer’s Guide.