Flash rmtp + mp3 audio stream monitoring software

I think you have to use Adobe AIR

Is that because of technical limitations due to the rtmp streaming protocol?
I'd rather prefer a service than a desktop app...

rtmp is like ftp stream protocol is you lost connection you have to load again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Messaging_Protocol

So, technically it should be perfectly possible to develop a software tool in like C# or another language that can monitor the connection and see if something comes through?
I mean: we're not bound to Adobe Air then?

Please can you give me URL to your stream file I will try to implement AS monitoring

The MP3 stream is at http://mp3.streampower.be/fmbrussel96

The RTMP stream is at rtmp://live.flash.streampower.be/fmbrussel/fmbrussel_hi

I cannot get access to these files. By the way would you like to monitoring network connection or loaded bytes/?

Let me check tomorrow why the links don't work (don't have access to them now either).

Well, actually I would like to check whether something comes through the stream or not.
In practice:
1) can a connection be made to the stream? yes or no?
2) is there audio available or only silence? (if there is silence, then there is also a problem as the stream is running, but no audio is going over the stream)

I'll come back to you tomorrow.

Dgofman, I'm able to play the rtmp stream but only from within a Flash player like Movea
http://www.moyea.com/flv-player/

The MP3 stream is still a riddle, I'll check that out in the morning.

I downloaded Moyea FLV Player and tried to open your URL (nothing)

rtmp://live.flash.streampower.be/fmbrussel/fmbrussel_hi

What about the mp3 stream? Got it working now.

Its slow but working,
Please review my other posts related playing MP3 using Flash Player and let me know if work for you

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26924286/Flash-MP3-player-for-website.html

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26894205/as3-play-function-when-sound-stops.html

dgofman,

Are you suggesting that I would develop the tool I was looking for in Flash or Flex?
I'm not sure what to do with the info you gave me.

Another cool feature you can add controlling Network stream and buffering

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/NetStream.html#attachAudio()

http://blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/2006/07/playing_back_flvs_with_actions_1.html

Good tutorial for you

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3sound/

And finnaly you can apply this code for handling all your probelms

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/438472?decorator=print&displayFullThread=true

Sounds like this is the perfect tutorial to develop a player, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for I'm afraid.
I simply wanted to know with which technology it is possible to monitor (meaning: see if the stream exists and if anything comes through - in case of failure send out alerts)
an audio stream as a Windows service (running in the background).
I'm sure Flash would do the trick, but that's a desktop app, not a service.
Flex I'm not familiar with.

Since I have no exact answer on my question, I'll be closing the thread.
Anyway thank you for your efforts, dgofman, as you were the only one that responded to my question.

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