Recording live broadcast

my company uses broadcasts include both streams (coming different users , displayed together), animations amd images mixed on flash player.
you can think of kind of flash presentation mixed web meeting.

we record broadcast single video file (flv, quicktime, etc.) , streaming file on demand our fms.
i looking way record broadcastig viewer sees when looks @ boradcast.

you can't sort of screen capture or that. can use netstream.send trigger events in client.

let's say, example, have function in actionscript named playanimation(), , stream named somestream. trigger function, code might this:

client side:
function playanimation(){
// here
}
my_netconnection.triggeranimation = function(){
playanimation();
}

on server side:
application.tellclienttorunanimation = function(){
somestream.send('triggeranimation");
}

now, when server side function called, message goes out across stream, , tells client run function.

now, here's gets cool. if you're recording stream, netstream.send call gets saved in flv file. so, when play back, triggeranimation call gets fired off again on playback, @ same point in time @ sent duing live broadcast.

of course, using method works if play flv in swf that's set proper functions. if .swf deson't have functions you're calling netstream.send event, nothing happen.

hope helps.

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