Serving Videos From Subfolders in VOD Application

This post should be read in conjunction with my previous one about virtual directories with the FLVPlayback component and FMS. I just needed to troubleshoot a client's FMS installation. Videos are organised in a deep structure of subfolders and to be delivered via the standard VOD application of Flash Media Streaming Server. I was using the FLVPlayback component to make sure the videos were playable. Once again it became apparent that the FLVPlayback component needs to be fed with an application instance name as soon as you try and deliver files that are not inside the toplevel /vod/media folder. As you may know, the VOD application is by default configured to live (on Windows) at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash Media Server 3\applications\vod while its files are stored at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash Media Server... [read full story]