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Just a few days ago I was alarmed on the forum that many users of AVChat started getting the error in the title out of the blue without the chat webmasters doing anything.

After a quick investigation we had found the culprit.

It seems Adobe has modified something in their latest Flash Player Update (11.1.102.62).

They modified the contents of the pageUrl variable sent by Flash Player when it connects to a media server like FMS, Red5 or Wowza.

In FP 11.1.102.55 (released on November 7th, 2011) pageUrl looked like this: http://avchat.net/demos/avchat30/
In FP 11.1.102.62 (released on February 15th, 2012, the one thats causing the issue) pageUrl is truncated and looks like this: http://avchat.net

Strangely enough this modification/problem exists only in Firefox ( on both PC and MAC).

This shorter pageUrl flips our domain checking mechanism resulting in end users getting the error in the title when trying to connect.

To fix the issue we have compiled some new media server files (Red5, FMIS, Wowza) for the latest build of AVChat, 1418 and attached them to this blog post together with patching instructions.

We will compile such patches for both older versions of AVChat and other software like our HDFVR video recorder .

FLVAR for Red5 and FMIS, SimplChat and AVConference do not need patching.

============== AVChat 3 build 1418 patches below============

To fix the error when using AVChat 1418 and FMIS media server:

1. Download this archive: zip archive containing new main.ase file for FMIS
2. Extract the contents of the attached archive, it contains a new main.ase file
3. Replace your old main.ase file in FMS/applications/avchat30/ with the new one in the attached archive
4. Restart the media server OR reload the avchat30 application using the FMS management console/FCS application inspector
5. Done

To fix the error when using AVChat 1418 and Red5 media server:

1. Download this archive: zip archive containing new Application.class file for Red5
2. Unpack the attached archive, it contains a new Application.class file
3. Replace your old Application.class file in Red5\webapps\avchat30\WEB-INF\classes\avchat3 with the new one
4. Restart Red5
5. Done

To fix the error when using AVChat 1418 and Wowza media server:

1. Download this archive: zip archive containing new avchat3.jar file for Wowza
2. Unpack the attached archive, it contains a new avchat3.jar file
3. Replace your old avchat3.jar file in Wowza\lib with the new one in the attached archive
4. Restart Wowza
5. Done

============== AVChat 3 build 1252 patches below============

To fix the error when using AVChat 1252 and Red5 media server:

1. Download this archive: zip archive containing new Application.class file for Red5
2. Unpack the attached archive, it contains a new Application.class file
3. Replace your old Application.class file in Red5\webapps\avchat30\WEB-INF\classes\avchat3 with the new one
4. Restart Red5
5. Done

============== AVChat 3 build  1198 patches below============

To fix the error when using AVChat 1198 and Red5 media server:

1. Download this archive: zip archive containing new Application.class file for Red5
2. Unpack the attached archive, it contains a new Application.class file
3. Replace your old Application.class file in Red5\webapps\avchat30\WEB-INF\classes\avchat3 with the new one
4. Restart Red5
5. Done

============== AVChat 3 build  960 patches below============

To fix the error when using AVChat 960 and Red5 media server:

1. Download this archive: zip archive containing new Application.class file for Red5
2. Unpack the attached archive, it contains a new Application.class file
3. Replace your old Application.class file in Red5\webapps\avchat30\WEB-INF\classes\avchat3 with the new one
4. Restart Red5
5. Done

============== HDFVR patches below============

To fix the error when using HDFVR (any build) and FMIS media server:

1. Download this archive: zip archive containing new main.ase file for FMIS
2. Extract the contents of the attached archive, it contains a new main.ase file
3. Replace your old main.ase file in FMS/applications/hdfvr/ with the new one in the attached archive
4. Restart the media server OR reload the hdfvr application using the FMS management console/FCS application inspector
5. Done

To fix the error when using HDFVR (any build) and Red5 media server:

1. Download this archive: zip archive containing new Application.class file for Red5
2. Unpack the attached archive, it contains a new Application.class file
3. Replace your old Application.class file in Red5\webapps\hdfvr\WEB-INF\classes\VideoRecorder with the new one
4. Restart Red5
5. Done

To fix the error when using HDFVR (any build) and Wowza media server:

1. Download this archive: zip archive containing new hdfvr.jar file for Wowza
2. Unpack the attached archive, it contains a new hdfvr.jar file
3. Replace your old hdfvr.jar file in Wowza\lib with the new one in the attached archive
4. Restart Wowza
5. Done

============== FLVAR patches below============

To fix the error when using FLVAR (any build) and Wowza media server:

1. Download this archive: zip archive containing new audiorecorder.jar file for Wowza
2. Unpack the attached archive, it contains a new audiorecorder.jar file
3. Replace your old audiorecorder.jar file in Wowza\lib with the new one in the attached archive
4. Restart Wowza
5. Done

Update 9th of March 2012:

Adobe just released Flash Player 11.1.102.63 for PC and 11.1.102.64 for Mac on March 4.

This update does not fix the initial issue that caused the “Connection rejected error” introduced in Flash Player 11.1.102.62.

The patches do not need to be installed anymore if your website members upgarde to the latest version of Flash Player.

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that we’ve tested our AVChat 3 Joomla! Integration Kits with Joomla! 2.5 and they work perfectly. You can now upgrade to version 2.5 without encountering any problem with our products (if you had 1.7).

Thank you for your patience and have a nice day,

Stefan

We’ve done a quick update to our video recorder today, here’s what’s new:

• a new flash var has been added called recorderId, this variable is sent to all JS callbacks as a parameter and to all PHP/ASP files as a GET variable . This is useful whn you have more than 1 video recorder on the same HTML page.
• HDFVR now defaults to using NellyMoser’s ASAO audio codec . Many clients have trouble converting the Speex audio data in the resulting .flv files using ffmpeg (ffmepg does not decode by default Speex audio).
• video quality xml files now contain information about the bandwidth used by audio data when using the NellyMOser ASAO audio codec.
• the JS API that allows you to control HDFVR will not be known as the JS Control API (it used to be called JS WRITE API)

That’s it, you can grab the new version from your private client/trial area.