User Guide

182 Configuration Files

If you are mapping a virtual directory to a drive on another computer, make sure that the

computer running Flash Media Server has the right permissions to access the other computer.

Syntax

<Streams>key-value;virtual path;directory</Streams>

</VirtualDirectory>

You specify a virtual directory by mapping the client's virtual key to the resource’s actual key.

Setting the key to point to the beginning of the value for the

Streams tag forces the virtual

directory mapping in a

Streams to use the original mapping in the original Streams tag.

Example

<Streams>alphaKey;foo;c:\goodStreams</Streams>

<Streams>betaKey;foo;c:\evenBetterStreams</Streams>

</VirtualDirectory>

You create a stream switching scenario by including more than one copy of the same virtual

path with different keys. This example shows two pointers to the same virtual path using

different keys.

Additional information

Custom stream delivery is a new feature in Flash Media Server 2. This task that is enabled

using a combination of the

VirtualDirectory and VirtualKey tags, and the

Client.virtualKey

and Stream.setVirtualPath() APIs.

Contained tag

Streams