Installing the HDFVR

Part 1, installing the hdfvr app on the media server:

On Red5 0.8	On FMIS	On Wowza
1) Copy the Red5_0.8/hdfvr folder (from the hdfvr.zip archive) to your Red5/webapps folder. 2) Restart Red5.	Copy the FMIS/hdfvr folder (from the hdfvr.zip archive) to your FMIS/applications folder. If you're using FMIS hosting create a new application/folder named hdfvr and in it upload the contents of the FMIS/hdfvr folder (from the hdfvr.zip archive).	Copy the applications, conf and lib folders (you will find them in the Wowza folder from the hdfvr.zip archive) inside the Wowza installation folder.

On Red5 0.8

On FMIS

On Wowza

1) Copy the Red5_0.8/hdfvr folder (from the hdfvr.zip archive) to your Red5/webapps folder.

2) Restart Red5.

Copy the FMIS/hdfvr folder (from the hdfvr.zip archive) to your FMIS/applications folder.

If you're using FMIS hosting create a new application/folder named hdfvr and in it upload the contents of the FMIS/hdfvr folder (from the hdfvr.zip archive).

Copy the applications, conf and lib folders (you will find them in the Wowza folder from the hdfvr.zip archive) inside the Wowza installation folder.

Part 2, installing HDFVR on your web site:

Copy the contents of Files to upload to your web site from the received archive in a folder on your web site
Edit avc_settings.php (or avc_settings.asp) with a text editor and set the value of $config['connectionstring'] to the correct connection string for your new media server app, here is how it should look:
- $config['connectionstring']='rtmp://mymediaserver.com/hdfvr/_definst_';
- $config['connectionstring']='rtmp://my.media.server.ip/hdfvr/_definst_';
- $config['connectionstring']='rtmp://localhost/hdfvr/_definst_';
Go to http://www.yoursite.com/your_new_vide_recorder/videorecorder.html , you will be asked for your license key which you can obtain from the customer area on AVChat.net! (Use videorecorder-hd.html to record a HD video!)

Part 3, where can I find the resulting .flv files?

on Red5 in Red5/webapps/hdfvr/streams/_definst_
on FMIS in FMIS/applications/hdfvr/streams/_definst_
on Wowza in Wowza/content

Only the recordings for which the [Save] button has been pressed will be saved for keeping on the media server!

Part 4, how can I play back the resulting FLV files?

Using a flv player, right from the media server trough streaming
move them to a web server to make them available for download or to play them using progressive download using a flv player.

Part 5, what flv players can I use?

Both JW FLV Media Player and Flowplayer support both streaming and progressive download!

Part 6, where can I find the snapshots?

After recording your first movie look for a new folder called snapshots on your web server in the folder where you installed HDFVR. The .jpg filename corresponds to the .flv filename on the media server.

By default a snapshot of the recording is taken at second 5 and it is sent/uploaded to the web server when you press the [Save] button!

Part 7, Switching between php and asp

By default HDFVR attempts to use the php files (avc_settings.php, save_video_to_db.php). To switch to asp you need to:

Edit videorecorder-api.html with a text editor.
Replace videorecorder.swf with videorecorder.swf?sscode=asp in both places inside the HTML file.

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