How to Connect to an Adobe RTMP Player

The most widely used Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) client software is the Adobe Flash Player. To connect a Flash Player to an RTMP stream, you must have the URL for a Flash Media or other server that is streaming media. You can connect to a Flash Media server by entering the RTMP URL into the code block in the HTML page.

Instructions

1. Open the HTML code page in your HTML editor or a text editor, such as Notepad.

2. Locate the code block for the embedded Flash video. Note the source URL that defines the path for the embedded video. You’ll replace this URL with the RTMP URL for the Flash Media server.

3. Drag the cursor over the embedded Flash video URL in the code block and type the RTMP URL for the streaming Flash Media server over the highlighted text. The RTMP URL will start with the “rtmp://” prefix, as in the following example.

   rtmp://www.flashmediaserver.com/videostream

4. Click the “File” option on the top navigation bar. then click “Save” to commit your changes.

5. Double-click on the HTML file to open it in a Web browser and test the streaming Flash video.