Month of March , 2009

Getting Adobe Flash Media Server working with Xampp / Apache

As part of the ongoing development of my SWF Tools project I needed to get a streaming media server up and running to try things out.

I started out with Red5, an open source server, which pretty much worked out the box (or off the download!)

I then discovered you can get the offical Adobe Flash Media Server for free in a "development" edition that limits you to ten streams. Perfect for local development I thought.

Fomatting multiple CCK items

I've been doing some work on the SWF Tools project to enhance its support for CCK. Specifically, turning multiple filefield uploads in to a playlist.

In principle it seemed easy, create a theme function but rather than assign the multiple value formatter as CONTENT_HANDLE_CORE set it to CONTENT_HANDLE_MODULE.